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Harry Potter Politics

What Do You Think of Harry Potter


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AmazingMeg

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I was wondering if anyone here has really read the Harry Potter books and/or seen the movies and noticed the sociological and political motives in the movies and books, and what you think?
 
Some very good books and movies and Emma Watson is hot.
 
She did turn out to be extremely gorgeous and she's a total bad arse and extremely smart, but then again I say that if I had $40 million as a teen I wouldn't have mental angst and wouldn't worry and I would probably be able to focus more on my studies.

Matt Lewis always gets to me, such a geeky little boy and then turns into a hot man. I think I am appreciating the literature now as an adult more than when I first read them in high school.
 
I learned never cast a spell with a broken ward.
 
I've read it all, seen it all, thought the series started out great and went straight to hell by the end. Someone needs to rent J.K. Rowling an editor.
 
Haha Ron in the 2nd book!
 
I do agree Chris Columbus should have produced all of the movies. I'm happy John Williams did the music. The world has no idea what we're going to miss when Alfred Bendel and John Williams bite the dust and both men are very old now.

At which book did you think the HP series nosedived and why?
 
I was wondering if anyone here has really read the Harry Potter books and/or seen the movies and noticed the sociological and political motives in the movies and books, and what you think?



I noticed that the Ministry of Magic was highly bureaucratic and frequently authoritarian... but at the same time frequently bumbling, inefficient, and ineffective, especially at dealing with a REAL threat (ie Voldemort).

I wondered if it was supposed to be a metaphor for the British government... :shrug:
 
I think Voldemort is supposed to be a symbol for many different things including perhaps a New World Order. But I think he's a range of evil including a representation of Hitler, the Devil, etc many things and evil people.

The ministry of magic to me seems it's JK Rowling's views on the unfair justice system and she faced discrimination herself when she was a poor single mother.
 
Order of the Phoenix is clearly about being against standardized testing.
 
What comes to mind? Adjectives, adverbs, a nearly complete absence of quality imagery. Then, after the title page, things get worse.
 
Well then vote you hate it! :)
 
At which book did you think the HP series nosedived and why?

It wasn't any book in particular but as they went on, her publishers were making so much money off of her that they didn't dare criticize their golden goose and she started putting more and more and more irrelevant nonsense into the books, which is why they started out at a low of 309 pages and went ridiculous with a high of 870 pages. Most of the latter books were just fluff.
 
I was wondering if anyone here has really read the Harry Potter books and/or seen the movies and noticed the sociological and political motives in the movies and books, and what you think?

Nope - I'm not going to read a series written for children and try to find some deeper underlying political sub structure - entirely asinine.
 
I was wondering if anyone here has really read the Harry Potter books and/or seen the movies and noticed the sociological and political motives in the movies and books, and what you think?
Harry who?

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Nope - I'm not going to read a series written for children and try to find some deeper underlying political sub structure - entirely asinine.
It's ok, I read everything, there is no deeper sub-structure.

Lord of the Rings is a different story (no pun intended).
 
Not a fan of the books or the movies.
 
The books were pretty good up to number 5. They went downhill after that.

The movies were meh.
 
I noticed that the Ministry of Magic was highly bureaucratic and frequently authoritarian... but at the same time frequently bumbling, inefficient, and ineffective, especially at dealing with a REAL threat (ie Voldemort).

I wondered if it was supposed to be a metaphor for the British government... :shrug:

I wonder if the Ministry of Magic was either Pro-Wand or Pro-Wand Control.
 
I have no idea why you ask that in the first place.

I was going to give you **** if you were a dirty old man drooling over a 23 yr old.
 
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