ABSTRACT
The Law and Literature movement has a long history in Anglo-American legal scholarship. A pluralist critique of legalism, on the contrary, requires a comprehensive reconsideration of the sources of law beyond the structures of Western legal systems and the positivist thesis that represents the State as a nomopoly, a monopoly in the creation of law. Legalism fails in adequately addressing these problems in the so-called real world as it isolates law from its political and social context. Dystopia is a contemporary genre born in the first quarter of the twentieth century. Harry Potter's bildungsroman is punctuated with narratives of slavery, racial discrimination, or the rise of a fascist regime. As Raffaella Baccolini and Tom Moylan note, however, the dystopian story line then develops a counter-narrative 'as the dystopian citizen moves from apparent contentment to an experience of alienation and resistance. Joanne Kathleen Rowling's dystopian storytelling is a powerful advocate of republican freedom.
