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Note that while some believe that it is acceptable for Muggle-borns to learn magic (i.e. become ''nouveau riche'') and others disagree, all agree that magical people are inherently superior. The wizarding peoples do not learn to perform productive labour at Hogwarts, merely how to use the magic they were born with. Similarly, the bourgeoisie need only learn to manipulate money; the workers will produce it.
 
And so we come to our heroes. The Gryffindors wear red Quidditch robes and represent the Red Army. Dumbledore, with his voluminous white beard, stands for Karl Marx; Hagrid is Engels, his faithful servant; while Harry Potter's glasses and untidy black hair make him identical to Leon Trotsky. Harry's lightning-bolt scar is in reference to the fatal head wound inflicted on Trotsky by [[Ram Ã]]Ramón Mercader with an ice pick. The two Orders of the Phoenix represent the First and Second Internationals.
 
Voldemort represents the modern consumer. His commodity fetishism is symbolised by the Horcruxes, "valuable" objects into which he ''projects parts of his soul''. Possessions give him identity; destroying them shatters it, making him realise that he has not developed as a human being.
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== Harry Potter is intended to advertise libertarian viewpoints ==
Umbridge's time in Hogwarts showed clearly that governmental influence in private education is bad. The ministry of magic itself is described as rather sinister place, schemeing to reach obedience via surveillance. Reliable news only come from the Quibbler, not the Daily Prophet, which appears to be a wizarding world equivalent of the Pravda. My fiance believes this is indication enough that Rowling is libertarian.
* Benjamin Barton, a University of Tennessee law professor, [https://web.archive.org/web/20070810010003/http://www.michiganlawreview.org/archive/104/6/Barton.pdf agrees]. If you don't feel like reading the whole thing, Barton's basic point is that the Ministry is a self-serving bureaucracy with no checks or balances and the main characters seem to have little use for it.
* Unlikely, though, because J. K. Rowling has consistently supported the Labour Party.
== All major female characters are author avatars ==
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Look at the other major female death: Self-sacrifice by Lily Potter that saves her son, and ultimately the world.
 
(Professor Burbage doesn't count. A red-shirt sympathy frag I had
to check to determine the gender of.)
 
- [[Tropers/Jove Hack|Jove Hack]]
 
* What about Umbridge?
 
-Leliel
 
* The aspects Rowling doesn't like about herself, and knows no one else would. No [[Villain Sue|Villain Sues]] here, thank you.
 
== The 1st Book is ''The Sorceror's Stone'' in the US, and ''The Philosopher's Stone'' elsewhere, ==
Because the [[Metal Gear|Patriots]] don't want American children to be thinking too much about Philosophers.
 
== The Mauraders are a stand-in for [[The Beatles (band)|The Beatles]] ==
Think about it. There were four of them, and James kind of resembles John Lennon, they were broken up, and two of them died by the end of the series.
* But the Marauders weren't broken up by Lily. Nonetheless, this is ''always'' how I imagine ''Come Together''.
* Well... she did have the baby involved in the prophecy that prompted Voldemort to kill James. So, she kinda did, right? I like this theory. James is John, Sirius is Paul, Lupin in George and Pettigrew is Ringo. And by the way, all four of the Marauders are dead by the end of the series, not just two.
** Hey, hey, hey -- donhey—don't insult Ringo!
** This troper would argue that Peter is very much like Ringo -- exceptRingo—except he was a Ringo who allowed his perceived lesser importance stop him form being anything other than a hanger-on to their coattails who turned against the rest of his group on promises of a better "role" with a rival/enemy "band." Very much ''unlike'' the real Ringo. After all, if Peter had made the choice, he could have been a very lovable, brave, devoted member of the Order -- aOrder—a real Neville Longbottom type. Harry Potter is all about choices, remember.
*** Now I'm just picturing Dumbledore talking to Ringo Starr and saying things like: "Exactly! And that makes you very different from Peter Pettigrew!"
*** I'm imagining Peter Pettigrew narrating Thomas The Tank Engine.
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[[J. K. Rowling]] might actually be a witch who pretended that her books were written as fiction, which means that there will be a dozen wizards out there wondering what this [[Harry Potter]] book is doing as fiction when it's all true. JK might've decided that she wanted the Muggles to know a bit about the whole wizard thing, but she needed to keep [[The Masquerade]] a secret. Cue "fictional" accounts.
* Uh... when I was younger, and was absolutely obsessed with ''[[Harry Potter]]'', I used to actually [[Daydream Believer|believe this.]]
** Hell, I believed that when I was ten -- andten—and I still believe it today. [[Professional Wrestling|IT'S STILL REAL TO ME, DAMMIT!]]
* They could do like what happened in ''[[Paul]]'', where, by showing us what real wizards are like, it gets us used to the idea of them existing.
 
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