J.K. Rowling is a Conservative
From the blog Gay Patriot
I have not read a single Harry Potter book, (ya know black folks don’t read….just kidding…slightly) but Mrs. Snoop has, so I wonder if she or daughter-in-law Misty would agree with this:
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Sphere: Related ContentUntil just a few minutes ago, I was under the spell of the last of the Harry Potter books and expect to post something on that in a few minutes — or maybe a hour or so. All I can say is “WOW!” I guessed some things right (but also got a lot wrong) about certain characters. Still, I couldn’t put the book down and wanted to finish it before I heard the ending from anyone else.Not only does she borrow images, characters and expression from mythologiy, but more importantly, Rowling borrows great themes from these ancient stories.
Pehaps, someone in my graduate program should write a dissertation on the Harry Potter series as myth — as I had once considered writing such a thesis about The Lord of the Rings.
And with her story, we see that Rowling is a conservative, if not in name, at least in her philosophy. Thematically, she has much, oh so much, in common with C.S. Lewis.
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July 26th, 2007 at 4:31 pm
Oh, hell yes!! In the Potterverse, the evils of the world stem from, in this order: Voldemort, passivity and denial in the face of growing evil, large, over-controlling government agencies, and Blast-Ended Skrewts. There only overwhelmingly “liberal” theme throughtout is one of class inequality.