[HPforGrownups] Re: Snapes Dark Mark (was: Jewish Goblins?)

[Iggy McSnurd]

No: HPFGUIDX 81726


Isto:

> I think the first time a DE gets his mark he/she is proud of it,
> because it symbolizes the membership to a group which is in his/her
> opinion a group consisting of people who are better than the rest of
> the WW and whole world ("pureblood"). They think about themselves as
> an elite.

Taking some of this a bit further we see an additional interesting
comparison: (That is, if one of my history teachers wasn't just blowing
smoke up our kilts when she taught us about this.)

A big part of the Aryan ideal was of the physically fit, blond-haired,
blue-eyed "pure breeds."

A number of the upper echelons of the Nazi regime didn't fit this ideal,
Hitler included.

The DE were constructed of those from pureblood families of the WW, who also
felt that there was a natual superiority in the "purity of their breeding."

LV is a "half-breed" and doesn't fit in with his own policies of "racial
purity..."


*snip*

> I think that the dark mark is a comparison for Hitler's SS. There
> are other similarities with Hitler's Third Reich and the WW II in
> Harry Potter (for example "DD defeats Grindelwald in 1945").
> The whole pureblood-thing is based on racism, which is unfortunately
> a certain part of german history shown especially in the time of the
> Third Reich.

I rented a room from the mom of one of my friends a number of years back and
lived with them for two years.

She was of full German ancestry, with blond hair and blue eyes.  She also
lived as a little girl, in Berlin during the height of WWII.  I thought it
interesting to note that, while she didn't support the Nazi ideal or
anything, you could see how the environment of her youth affected her
outlook on people who were different than her.  While she didn't ridicule
them, or take the attitude that they were infirior, she often laughed at
people who acted different and thought they were strange... either that or
she was confused and didn't really understand them.

Kinda made life interesting when you take into account that I'm a Neo
Pagan... and my best friend aside from my wife, is a gay black man....


>
> Racism is unfortunately a problem in some european countries and in
> other world countries today, too.

I don't think there's a country in the world that doesn't have SOME group
that they are prejudiced against.

(As I tend to state, when someone says that there's no government supported
religion in the US... "Have you looked at our money lately?  And do you
really think a non-Christian has ANY chance of getting elected as president
within the next century?")


>
> Sorry for my bad english, it is not my mother tongue.

Aside from a spelling mistake or two, which most native speakers would
probably make, you do a very good job with it.

(As I once told a German pen-pal of mine in high school... when I called
Germany once for an hour and a half... summer... day rates... $104 for the
call... where was I??   Oh yeah... I told her that she spoke better English
than at least half of the Americans I knew...)

What is your native language?


Iggy McSnurd
the Prankster

"Did the Iron Chefs have to work their way up from being Copper and Bronze
Chefs first?"

-- Iggy McSnurd