Potter & Politics - who votes what?

[Sydney]

No: HPFGUIDX 71586

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Josephine" <josie421 at h...> wrote:
> I'm sorry if this has already been done to death, but...
> 
> Politics as such are not really part of the Harry Potter books
 but, 
> if we do imagine Dumbledore, McGonagall, Hagrid, Snape, Lupin, Lucius 
> Malfoy and everybody else casting their votes
 on what do you think 
> it would be? Who are left, who votes right? Who can't pick sides?
> 
> Josephine

Ooh, what fun!  What papers people read often tell you more about
their politics than who they vote for so I'll say:

The Weasleys:  Guardian readers to a man.  Wooly lefties. Except for
Molly who sneaks copies of the Sun.

Snape:  Grumbles over the Spectator.  Conservative of the old school.
 Also reads The Times because the ugly typeface and smeary ink suits him.

Hermionie:  only reads the Independent these days-- righteously
indignant storm-the-barricades lefty.

McGonnegal:  I'm with everyone else, she's a tough call...
pre-Thatcher she may have been a conservative, who had turn to Labour
and is now considering it may be okay to move back.  Or as someone
said, she may be a socialist--  I can easily see her as a Scottish
independence nut (I mean 'nut' affectionately here).  Anyways, the
papers are all too plebian for her, but she reads the Times Literary
Supplement every week.

Dumbledore:  Has ascended to a plane above politcs.  Reads the free
Metro paper on the underground, and Private Eye.

Lupin:  Reads a range of papers in order to get all points of view.

--Sydney