Voldemort's network

[Andrea Renkel]

No: HPFGUIDX 30121

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., butagirl at a... wrote:

> This seems to me to be very like a lot a of terrorist networks, 
> where there a few close to the top (those Voldemort summoned), who 
each 
> cascade information and orders down their own individual networks. 
> <...snip...>
> 
> Sharon Brindle
> "Though I am butagirl at a..."



I agree with the network theory - but the first thing that came to 
mind when I read the scene at the Quidditch worldcup and later at the 
graveyard was another group: the Ku Klux Klan. The hoods, the 
torturing of muggles; in my opinion there's more than one similarity.
I've searched the internet about the KKK and found something about 
their original organisational structure (in their early years) that I 
found more than just a bit scary:

>>>It was organized at Pulaski, Tenn., in May, 1866. Its strange 
disguises, its silent parades, its midnight rides, its mysterious 
language and commands, were found to be most effective in playing 
upon fears and superstitions. The riders muffled their horses' feet 
and covered the horses with white robes. They themselves, dressed in 
flowing white sheets, their faces covered with white masks, and with 
skulls at their saddle horns, posed as spirits of the Confederate 
dead returned from the battlefields. Although the Klan was often able 
to achieve its aims by terror alone, whippings and lynchings were 
also used, not only against blacks but also against the so-called 
carpetbaggers and scalawags.

A general organization of the local Klans was effected in Apr., 1867, 
at Nashville, Tenn. Gen. N. B. Forrest, the famous Confederate 
cavalry leader, was made Grand Wizard of the Empire and was assisted 
by ten Genii. Each state constituted a Realm under a Grand Dragon 
with eight Hydras as a staff; several counties formed a Dominion 
controlled by a Grand Titan and six Furies; a county was a Province 
ruled by a Grand Giant and four Night Hawks; the local Den was 
governed by a Grand Cyclops with two Night Hawks as aides. The 
individual members were called Ghouls.<<<

Life is stranger than books, isn't it?
Andrea