[HPforGrownups] Re: Danger in designating an "Other" / Slytherins / DH as Christian Allegory

[Marion Ros]

No: HPFGUIDX 174009

Neri:

>>>Instead, the solution that JKR came up with was to "dilute" Slytherin.
This strikes me as roughly analogous to the Allies keeping the Nazi
party in Germany after the war, but trying to soften its ideology. You
know, keep the flags with the swastika (why not? After all it was
originally a benign Buddhist symbol) but put a few Jewish and Black
kids in the Hitlerjugend.<<<


Marion:

As long as those Black kids aren't Hutu or Tutsi, of course... 
Racism and genocide aren't the prerogative of Germans or just plain White people, you know... Ask the people of Rwanda, or just any Palestinian...

Marion, whose mailbox bounced her HP4GU mails for three days, who is only now catching up and who hugs Sydney, BetsyHp and Leslie41nd LizzyBen04 to her hart for writing the things she's been thinking for the past week {{hugs!}}

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