Analytical Thinking and Generation Next

One of the great things in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is a subplot involving a smear campaign against Harry Potter by the Daily Prophet and misinformation put out by the Ministry of Magic. I would never have conceived that a children's book could, in an entertaining way, illustrate how a propaganda machine works. My hope is that children who absorb that story will later make the connection to being skeptical of party-line information fed to them in their own lives.