OOP: A satire on real events?

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No: HPFGUIDX 66640

Ah, finally found the post on this:

In my opinion, the events in OOP (in the Umbridge-usurped Hogwarts 
specifically) parallel the dark days of the 1970s for the people in 
Manila. The detentions, supression of freedom of assembly (yes, a 
gathering of more than *3* students was classified as an act of 
subversion), freedom of speech... mercifully, no deaths but a heck of 
a lot of torture as well. 

Firestarter

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Dan Feeney" <dark30 at v...> 
wrote:
> The irritating thing for some on reading OOP is that it is 
(certainly to me) a pretty fair satire of the response of the large 
media and certain
> governments around the world to George Bush and his so-called war on
> terrorism. Of course, media manipulation happens all the time, but 
rarely so 
> dramatically as in the last couple years. I mean, didn't shrub say 
>  that we quite possibly will never know all the things the US
> military is doing? Didn't he say we shouldn't know? Well, yes, he 
did, in
> fact.