"I Like Bats Better Than Bureaucrats"

[Caius Marcius]

That's what CS Lewis said concerning his focus in The Screwtape 
Letters: his symbol for Hell was not the bat-winged demon of medieval 
mythology, but the iron-gray bureaucracy of the contemporary super-
state/mega-corporation.

Benjamin Barton at the University of Tennessee Knoxville has written a 
paper titled "Harry Potter and the Half-Crazed Bureaucracy," an 
examination of Rowling's jaundiced take on modern bureaucracy via her 
portrayal of The Ministry of Magic. The abstract can be found here:

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=830765


   - CMC