Harry Potter's potential social and political impact was called similar to the 19th-century phenomenon of Harriet Beecher Stowe's popular, but critically maligned book, Uncle Tom's Cabin, which fuelled the abolitionist movement leading up to the American Civil War.
Harry Potters sociala och politiska inflytande har jämförts med Harriet Beecher Stowes populära, men även kritiserade, bok Onkel Toms stuga, som eldade på abolitionismrörelsen som ledde till amerikanska inbördeskriget.