OOP: Voldemort, Hitler and the wizarding community

[owlery2003]

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> Jesta Hijinx <jestahijinx at h...> wrote:
> > > (Voldemort's) hell-bent attitude on racial purity is quite
> >interesting, and parallels on Hitler himself. 
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>Susan P. added:
it seems to me that the followers of Voldemort ultimately crave 
power more than anyhing else, and are thus willing to "conveniently" 
ignore that their Fearless Leader is a clear example of what they 
supposedly detest.
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Felina added:
I think you're spot on with this.  Not only strange and senseless 
values like 'racial purity', but massive hypocrisy in the trenches 
when 
it comes right down to it.
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Owlery2003 replies:
The way JK sets up the wizarding community is odd in this context. 
It's almost a bipolar world. Half (Seamus' mom, Fudge, Percy) seem 
to be persuaded/blinded by the most unbelievable tripe (Daily 
Prophet, Rita Skeeter) and the other half have common sense 
(Neville's gran, the OOP crew). There don't seem to be too many in 
the middle, and the teeter-totter goes back and forth pretty easily 
(Hogwarts students opinions of Harry, Molly's opinion of Hermione). 
You'd think everyone would be up in arms about Voldy's return in the 
final pages of OOP, but it seems more like most are reading about 
how to deal with dementors over their morning coffee as if it's 
happening somewhere else.