Death Eater Similarities

[Emma Moniz]

No: HPFGUIDX 21330

I checked the archives and everything, and I saw that no-one had made 
the commentary that the Death Eaters are strikingly similar to the 
Klu Klux Klan Stateside.  I realise that this rather excludes the 
Brits from a lot of commentary and I apologise for that.  But growing 
up in an area with high KKK activity, as well as being a target for 
said activity, it seems strikingly similar.  Never knowing when you 
might be hit, dreading seeing the mark outside your house (Dark Mark 
for the DE, burning cross for the KKK), never knowing if they let 
your family get out unscathed, uncertain of who is a member and who 
isn't....  I was discussing this tonight, and the things the Death 
Eaters and the KKK share in common realy hit home when I read GoF for 
the umpteenth time this week.  I can understand that fear, now.

Are there other groups, aside from everybody's favourite, the Nazis, 
who share characteristics like this?  I understand the Death Eaters 
are a compilation of all hate groups, but they seem to function more 
like some than others...

~Emma