[HPforGrownups] Further Notes on Literary Uses of Magic and Anti-Globalization in Harry Potter

[Janette]

No: HPFGUIDX 168149

On 4/30/07, tbernhard2000 <lunalovegood at shaw.ca> wrote:
>
> So, if magic in Rowling serves to put into kids hands the tools kids
> in the real world don't have, tools to change things in their world,
> to influence society at large, especially when the grown-ups are
> powerless to do so themselves, when their Order of the Phoenix has
> fallen behind the times, and cannot influence the powers that be, from
> within or from without - at least, to our eyes, and in spite of how
> vigilant the theOrder is - this particular development in the
> narrative coincides, when Rowling was writing the book, with large,
> newsworthy anti-globalization protests in the real world, then 9/11
> and so forth. The Canadian Naomi Klein writes closest to the idea I
> identify in Rowling - it is leftism at its least scary and most
> attractive to the mainstream.


montims:
I don't think that events like 9/11, or late 20th century/early 21st century
events had much, if any, impact on the books at all.  JKR had already
conceived the backstory, and mapped out all 7 books, when PS was published.
If anything, the books look back, via Enid Blyton, Elinor Brent-Dyer and the
rest, to the likes of WW2 and the developments leading up to that.  IMO.


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