Krum jewish WAS Slytherins as jews

[marika_thestral]

No: HPFGUIDX 173579

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214"
<dumbledore11214 at ...> wrote:

> Alla:
> 
> You know, it is not the first time I read the argument that people 
> see Slytherins cast in the part of persecuted Jews and they see the 
> symbolism with jews from eastern Europe.
> 
> And of course I cannot argue with anybody's right to see that 
> symbolysm, intentional or not.


Marika:

I'm not getting into the jewish/Slytherin discussion, because I did
not see that connection at all.

Krum played that role to me. He reacted very stronlgy against the DH
symbol Mr. Lovegood wore. Krum said it was Grindelwalds symbol, and
that Grindelwald had killed relatives of his. Lovegood tells that this
symbol originally meant something else. Hard not to think of how
somebody who lost relatives during the Holocaust reacts when they see
a swastika (which before Hitler "stole" it stood for something else). 

Marika