World War Parallels

[Brooks R]

No: HPFGUIDX 1734

I've been meaning to post (since I had earlier mentioned a couple or 
three mild parallels) a rather different thought I had over the last 
few days:  Try this one for parallels.

"Vold War I"  - ended when he disappeared upon attacking Harry

"Vold War II" - the one that is coming in the remaining books.....

What we have read so far is the "Between the Wars" period, with 
Voldemort (enemy) rearming and recovering the power that was knocked 
down, but not destroyed, as originally thought, at the end of the 
First Vold War/First World War.   Other people than I have remarked 
that we thought of Neville Chamberlain in character, in the portrait 
of Fudge we get at the end of GoF (I was not even the first person to 
say it on the list, although I certainly thought it when I read GoF). 
(By the way, I have acquired an interesting analytic book lately that 
suggests Chamberlain pretty much *had* to appease, to buy time for 
Britain to re-arm).

The previously thought-of WWII parallels, of course, include the
"Pure Blood"/Aryan kind of thing exemplified by Draco Malfoy's 
attitude (and hair color).  

-Brooks