Muggles v wizards redux

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 183246

> Hickengruendler:
> 
> But the Prime Minister is ridiculed by Fudge and Scrimgeour. They 
are 
> not exactly role models. I mean, I do enjoy Fudge in this chapter 
and 
> think some of his quotes here were pretty funny, but he's still 
> Fudge. He was shown to be a rascist basically from his very first 
> appereance onwards. So when I see him obviously acting superior to 
> the Prime Minister, I don't identify with him, nor do I think his 
> behaviour is supposed to be okay. I did sort of like the Prime 
> Minister however, and thought he was in an awful situation, due to 
no 
> fault of his own, and couldn't do anything about it. So if we were 
> meant to see him as ridiculous, I don't think JKR suceeded. At 
least 
> not for me.

a_svirn:
They are not exactly villains either. In fact, Scrimgeour was a hero, 
even though Harry and Co were too petty to acknowledge it. And his 
actions in the Minister's office – a guest who insolently assumes the 
role of a host simply because he can – are mirrored to a nicety by 
Dumbledore's actions at the Dursleys. So here we have the two most 
powerful men in the WW both of whom quite enjoy putting hapless 
muggles into their places and rub their inferiority in. I was 
disgusted with both scenes, but I don't think it was the effect 
Rowling was aiming for.   
a_svirn.