The WW is fascist? (was the DE are Nazi?)

[nrenka]

No: HPFGUIDX 124713


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "delwynmarch" 
<delwynmarch at y...> wrote:

<snippity>

> In conclusion: the WW in itself is a fascist world. So it's really 
> no surprise that ultra-fascists like LV should crop up regularly. 
> More than ever, I argue that only a total transformation of the WW 
> could bring a real sense of hope for better days.

Actually, I myself wouldn't go that far.  Perhaps what stops me is 
something that popped up in a JKR comment someone brought up about 
wizards being misfits and individuals.  Despite the attempts of the 
Ministry to enforce orthodoxy in some things, there are no attempts 
made in other areas, it seems, given the rather wacky and disparate 
group of characters who parade across our screen.  There's the 
question of method as well; the Order may all trust Dumbledore 
implicitly, but he doesn't command them by fear or threats as a 
fascist state does but rather by what seem to be bonds of genuine 
trust and amity.  It's a rather motley crew collected around him, and 
I think it's telling that he attracts all kinds.  (The opposition of 
DEs masked and uniform to Order non-regimented and taking all kinds 
is a rather deliberate one).

While one can trace things that pop up in the DEs back into larger WW 
society, please don't fall down the slippery slope.  Distinctions in 
degree can very readily trip across the line into distinctions in 
kind, and those are important.  While the House system may impose 
some degree of uniformity onto students, there is a lot of evidence 
to the freedom to develop differently within a House.  Why else have 
both Luna and Cho in Ravenclaw?

But I'm flattered you liked it.  Maybe it will hold up. :)

-Nora plays in the political theory sandbox