political awareness and Hogsmeade

[foxmoth at qnet.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 3971

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Joywitch " <joym999 at a...> wrote:
 I think 
> that this is EXACTLY the point JKR was trying to make with the whole 
> Hermione/SPEW thing.  While it points out Hermiones compassion and 
> budding political awareness, as a political movement it is hopeless.  
> You cant come in from the outside and tell people (or elves) that 
> they are oppressed and change their lives for them.  It is up to them 
> to decide if there are aspects of their culture which need to change 
> and how and when to change them, and fight for their own freedom. 
> Otherwise they are substituting one form of dependence for another 
> (albeit a more benign one in some cases).
> 
> -- Joywitch
	I keep wondering when it will occur to Hermione to ask exactly how 
Hogsmeade is maintained as an all-wizarding village. Some form of 
wizard apartheidt? (horrors!)