[the_old_crowd] Re: The Political HP

[Mike & Susan Gray]

David suggested,

>>>>
Yes, interesting. My own feeling is that JKR presents the MOM as the state
gone bad rather 
than evidence that the state is intrinsically bad, but I might be bringing
my preconceptions to 
the text there.
>>>>

Hm. I don't sense too much of the saddened patriot in Rowling - I have more
the impression that she's (a) skeptical about all institutional power
structures but (b) deeply convinced that we need to practice solidarity. And
(b) necessitates said institutinal power structures *despite* (a). (Just as
people like Voldemort necessitate war, even though she distrusts that too.)

In that sense I would see her more as an anarchist manqué than a
libertarian. 

Mike Gray
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