According to Catherine Belcher, who works for LA's Promise (a non-profit organization focused on improving schools), Harry Potter is the perfect book to teach in schools because it discusses issues of multiculturalism and has many parallels to the American culture. There is so much diversity in the Harry Potter series and it starts with Hogwarts. Not only are there different creatures with different social status, but there are wizards who have different backgrounds which put them on different socio economical status levels. Each book offers a different look at diversity within the Magical World of Harry Potter that could be argued, are similer to America. For example, the issue of house elfs as slaves and not having equal rights. This could be tied in with slavery in America. There is also this idea of having privilage based off of the family a wizard comes from and whether or not someone is of "pure" blood. Just like in our world, in Harry's world there are certain rules in order to be considered somebody of importance. For instance, the Malfoy family compared to the Weasley family. If they lived in our world I would imagine that Mr. Malfoy would be a state worker, or worse, a senator. Wheras Mr. Weasley is more likely to be the middle man that everyone walks all over. There are so many connections between these two worlds that allows for deep topics of discussions between student and teacher. Not only that, but Harry Potter is well written, uses beautiful, vivid imagery, and can be very entertaining to read. The purpose of this project is to explore the culture comparison between the UK, the US, and social class to see how Rowling engages all three things as one. Then take the information I have found and show how this can benefit students in the classroom.