OoP thoughts and re: house-elves

[clio44a]

No: HPFGUIDX 61488

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kia" <kiatrier at y...> wrote:
> Thoughts, opinions, sunk theories? Anyone?
> 
> Am I the only one who got the distinctive impression that OotP is 
> the most political of the books so far?
> 
> The fountain and the lie it told. The never-mentioned-before fact 
> that the goblins do not have full rights in the Wizarding World, 
the 
> ignorant, bureaucratic and therefore consequently evil 
> government, the bought media... at least some of these things 
> have contemporary relevance. 
(Snip)
> Kia


I also think that OoP is very political. At some point while reading 
it I thought it could be subtitled 'So you want to run a resistance 
group in a totalitarian regime?'.

It was not only the DA theme, but also the passive resistance of the 
teachers and the difficulties for Umbridge to deal with notorious 
(but unpolitical) troublemakers like the Wheasley twins that gave 
that impression to me. 

Just one thing bothers me greatly: Why does it have to be again 
the 'evil' Slytherins who help Umbridge and thus play the role of a 
Mini-GESTAPO? That was so cliche! Will we ever see a good Slytherin?

Clio