Students at Kansas State University have been boning up on their "Harry Potter" knowledge ahead of today's release of "The Half-Blood Prince"...and they're getting credit for it.
Professors Philip Nel and Karin Westman teach a popular class focusing on the boy wizard.
Students read the Potter books and learn to understand the influences on author J.K Rowling, influences including writers C.S. Lewis and E. Nesbit.
"It's a way for us to bring students into the study of English through a text that is incredibly popular and gives the a chance to learn how to study literature as well as to enjoy it," Westman explains.
Nel says as a Harry Potter fanatic he wasn't quite charmed by the first and second movies, but felt the characters were really able to develop during the third.
He adds that those fans looking for a dark portrayal of the book are most likely going to get that with the new director at the helm for "The Half-Blood Prince".
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