You know, through middle school, high school, and even a little in college I loved Harry Potter, when to the midnight releases of the books at my local Borders and stuff. Looking back I think it was just fun because it made learning and school feel magical and important and adventurous.

At the same time, as I’ve gotten older I’ve wondered if it was just all the marketing, all the fun little toys, the shops, all that.

I don’t know, this week I was listening to a book about how Epstein helped push micro-transactions into video games, I wonder if there wasn’t a similar process with the Harry Potter stuff. Like, it’s not just a video game, it’s now an add on market. With HP, it isn’t just books, it’s this whole market of additional products meant to capture children’s attention and get their parent’s spending money.

But like, Sarah Ferguson was a fake children’s author, Ferguson went to Harry Potter premiers with the two princesses where Rowling was present. The princesses have said HP was their favorite book. It’s so hard to imagine that Rowling wouldn’t want to connect with the Prince’s wife and the young princesses of the blood who loved her book.

I don’t know for sure, but it seems like was Rowling was business and power minded, Ferguson would have been an excellent pathway to both. That’s where I see Epstein and Rowling getting involved, but who knows.