[HPforGrownups] Re: CoS irrelevant?

[srsiriusblack at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 48855

I reread CoS this evening....

In it, I was reminded of an issue that shows itself in book 3-4 and that I 
feel certain will reappear to the end of the series of books. This issue can 
be seen in the chapter "Mudbloods and Murmurs"...

I am not sure that this has been fully discussed, and if it has I give my 
apologies...

The word "Mudblood" and theories behind it are very much the same as ANY 
purist thought condition in modern society. I began to think tonight of the 
many parallels of the thought behind "Mudbloods" and that of everything from 
religious persecution to racism in our society. The theories behind each work 
so well with world history. It occurred to me.... Voldemort is a Hitler 
figure. Pure blood is the majour issue.

CoS is certainly relevant, other than the points already made by this point. 
Voldemort is a Hitler-esque figure. He desires power, he wants to wipe out 
those who are not of pure blood, etc. His tactics- torture, mass murder, and 
so on, his ideas, his mature... he is a WW Hitler, and CoS sets us up for 
what JKR has called, "many, many deaths to come in the following books".

(of course this theory can be applied to most any culture/belief structure.. 
Hitler is a universal figure to prove a point)

Thoughts?

-Snuffles

"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty 
recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the 
dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with 
open eyes, to make it possible. This I did."  T.E. Lawrence- Seven Pillars of 
Wisdom


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