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J.K. Rowling will be the commencement speaker at Harvard this year.

"Perhaps no one in our time has done more than J.K. Rowling to inspire young people to experience the excitement and sheer joy of reading," said Drew Faust, the president of the university, in a statement. "Harvard isn't exactly Hogwarts, but I am sure that her visit with us next June will be a moment of magic for J.K. Rowling's many admirers across the university."

Not all academics speak glowingly of the U.K. author. Harold Bloom, the literary critic and professor at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, wrote in the Wall Street Journal in April 2005 that Rowling and horror author Stephen King "are equally bad writers, appropriate titans of our new Dark Age of the Screens: computer, motion pictures, TV."

Luckily for the perpetually ill-tempered Harold Bloom, Jo Rowling will be speaking at Harvard, not Yale. And really, who cares what Harold Bloom thinks anyway? We're sure Jo doesn't.

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