Post by aki33 on Nov 28, 2017 11:42:10 GMT
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There were some things Rowling didn't consider while writing. To make Hermione dark-skinned was one of them, but one that can easily be changed without damage to the story.
To make Dumbledore gay seems to have had a little more intention behind it, though it was very low-key and missing out on it does not effect the main story either (it changes the story between him and Grindelwald a bit).
But there was one thing Rowling certainly had in mind: The whole of the Harry Potter universe is a parable on fascism or tyranny in general. Grindelwald was defeated in 1945 and imprisoned in Nurmengard (compare the Nazi war trials in Nuremberg after their defeat in 1945).
About Voldemort she said: "Voldemort is of course a sort of Hitler; it's interesting to find how superstitious these people are, with all their power. It's part of their paranoia, the desire to make themselves bigger then who they really are; they love talking about destiny and fate. I wanted Voldemort to also have those paranoid traits."
Voldemort is obsessed with ruling over and exterminating those considered inferior. The other characters involved with him share the same views that are magic-worlds equivalent to hardcore racism. They are also obsessed with purity of blood. Hermione is constantly shamed for being a "mudblood" - with "mud" still being used by racists today to refer to people they consider inferior.
Rowling's approach to the parable is, just like the double-Hitler with Grindelwald and Voldemort, severalfold. It shows the experience of those being considered inferior in their own society (half-bloods and mudbloods). It describes the lust for conquest, enslavement and anihilation that occurs when the powerful (wizards and witches) dehumanize the powerless (muggles). It even has a weak and ineffective bureaucracy giving way to and finally being transformed by totalitarianism. And it tells the story of bravery prevailing against the forces of darkness. That message is both timeless and timely.
There were some things Rowling didn't consider while writing. To make Hermione dark-skinned was one of them, but one that can easily be changed without damage to the story.
To make Dumbledore gay seems to have had a little more intention behind it, though it was very low-key and missing out on it does not effect the main story either (it changes the story between him and Grindelwald a bit).
But there was one thing Rowling certainly had in mind: The whole of the Harry Potter universe is a parable on fascism or tyranny in general. Grindelwald was defeated in 1945 and imprisoned in Nurmengard (compare the Nazi war trials in Nuremberg after their defeat in 1945).
About Voldemort she said: "Voldemort is of course a sort of Hitler; it's interesting to find how superstitious these people are, with all their power. It's part of their paranoia, the desire to make themselves bigger then who they really are; they love talking about destiny and fate. I wanted Voldemort to also have those paranoid traits."
Voldemort is obsessed with ruling over and exterminating those considered inferior. The other characters involved with him share the same views that are magic-worlds equivalent to hardcore racism. They are also obsessed with purity of blood. Hermione is constantly shamed for being a "mudblood" - with "mud" still being used by racists today to refer to people they consider inferior.
Rowling's approach to the parable is, just like the double-Hitler with Grindelwald and Voldemort, severalfold. It shows the experience of those being considered inferior in their own society (half-bloods and mudbloods). It describes the lust for conquest, enslavement and anihilation that occurs when the powerful (wizards and witches) dehumanize the powerless (muggles). It even has a weak and ineffective bureaucracy giving way to and finally being transformed by totalitarianism. And it tells the story of bravery prevailing against the forces of darkness. That message is both timeless and timely.