With the support from a young demographic, President Barack Obama benefitted largely from Harry Potter himself, one professor told the College Fix.

In his new book, "Harry Potter and the Millennials: Research Methods and the Politics of the Muggle Generation," professor Anthony Gierzynski stated many Obama supporters' values aligned with his campaign.

Gierzynski, a political science teacher from the University of Vermont, acknowledged the Harry Potter series was a small part of the factors that led many millennials to vote for Obama.

"The lessons fans internalized about tolerance, diversity, violence, torture, skepticism and authority made the Democratic Party and Barack Obama more appealing to fans of Harry Potter in the current political environment," Gierzynski said.

In the book series, Harry befriends and stands up for "half bloods," withes and wizards who are half human/half magic. On the other hand, the villains of the books are quick to judge them and only see "pure bloods," withes and wizards who are fully magical, as an acceptable person. 

Harry, Ron and Hermione also challenge authority repeatedly by breaking rules for the sake of doing what they feel is right and just.

For his study, Gierzynski interviewed and surveyed more than 1,000 millennial-aged students from seven universities between 2009 and 2011, to ensure his subjects were old enough to vote in 2008.

The survey included books and movies and also focused on the degrees to which people interacted with Harry Potter. Some were diehards who had read all the books before seeing the movies, some only saw the movies and some never read the books or saw the movies.

He found 60 percent of Obama voters in 2008 were fans of Harry Potter and 83 percent of the series' fans viewed President George Bush negatively.

 "Attitudes in opposition to the use of violence, torture and deadly force came to be associated with the Democrats at the end of the Bush years, mainly in opposition to Bush administration policies and failures in these areas," Gierzynski said. "The opposition to equal marital rights for same-sex couples and immigration reform by the Republicans put those who support political tolerance ... and those who are more accepting of diversity on the side of the Democrats."

Asked directly if Harry was a Democrat and Voldemort was a Republican, Gierzynksi declined a straightforward answer. The Harry Potter series is not a political piece, he said, but like all literature, it has the writer's values and beliefs sowed into the pages like seeds.

"Again and again, whether it is ignoring status as a pure-blood to judge individuals on the quality of their character, or simply courtesy toward any person regardless of their appearance or societal position, the tale of the boy wizard teaches it is good to reserve judgment, to be open to those who are different," the book states. "By contrast, the stories' antagonists are often quick to make judgments and be quite vocal in their bigotry."