College of Charleston English professor Trish Ward teaches a three-credit special topics course on Harry Potter.

With today’s release of the first half of the last Harry Potter installment — “Deathly Hallows” — around midnight, and the likelihood of a mad rush to theaters, The Post and Courier decided to pose a few questions to Ward in an effort to ascertain just what the big deal is.

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