Today, some among us might be dreaming of catching J.K. Rowling’s fictional Hogwarts Express for the annual journey to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, anticipating the Sorting Hat, the welcoming feast, an irksome poltergeist, and a new year of magical education and adventure. I’m thinking of Aunt Marge.
Aunt Marge, the sister of Harry Potter’s adopted father, was a large, husky woman with a booming voice. She usually lived alone with twelve ill-tempered dogs, except when she visited Harry…..
Shortly after leaving my most recent job, I tweeted the following:
I just quit working for a Grunnings-like organization (#HarryPotter) that provides customer service; incompatible
In the Harry Potter series, Vernon Dursley, Harry Potter’s abusive uncle, was the director of Grunnings, an organization that manufactured and sold drills. We don’t learn much about his managerial style. In the first book of the series, J.K. Rowling wrote that he enjoyed shouting at people, and in the second book, she described him…..