CHICKS DIG JERKS: J.K. Rowling Is ‘Unnerved’ by Everyone’s Crushes on Draco Malfoy.

UPDATE: Given the surprisingly detailed Harry Potter discussion in the comments, let me once again recommend my colleague Ben Barton’s Harry Potter and the Half-Crazed Bureaucracy, an explanation of how the series is a libertarian manifesto for the world’s youth. “This partial list of activities brings home just how bleak Rowling’s portrait of government is. The critique is even more devastating because the governmental actors and actions in the book look and feel so authentic and familiar. . . . Lastly, Rowling even eliminates the free press as a check on government power. The wizarding newspaper, The Daily Prophet, is depicted as a puppet to the whims of the Ministry of Magic.”

ANOTHER UPDATE: From the comments: “So college girls today live in constant fear of being raped. While daydreaming about Draco in leather pants and reading the S&M fantasy 50 Shades of Grey. What would Freud say was their problem?”