Funny how fiction and reality often merge. Each reflects the other, no matter how much time passes between when a story was written and when a person interprets it. Such was the case last week when my family decided to re-watch the Harry Potter series from our Covid-free basement — only a few miles from where the Black Lives Matter protests were taking place in downtown Portland. Federal agents, sent uninvited by The White House, had been clashing with protestors, using force against citizens exercising their rights to assembly and free speech. This created an unsettling backdrop to The Order of the Phoenix movie, which took on a whole new meaning.
