Harry Potter (novel)/WMG/Real World Theories: Difference between revisions

Nasty, run by an alternating series of dictators and warlords, and [[Somebody Else's Problem]]. [[Take That|Zing!]]

* It would explain why the rest of the world doesn't bother involving themselves with England's problems, why no one protests or attempts to the Ministry's quirks, inefficiences, and outright tyrannies.

* The Wizarding World is lagging behind technologically by more than a century, maybe they're also lagging behind in human and civil rights.

** So... since England hosted the Quidditch World Cup, we shouldn't be surprised if the IOC spurns Rio, Tokyo, Chicago and Madrid in favor of holding the 2016 Olympics in Mogadishu?

South African activist that rises to the highest position of power? Abolishes laws that favor the master race? How did anyone NOT notice this?!

* That doesn't work; Kingsley's black British, not South African, so unless he defected a long time ago (I don't know how difficult it is for a black or mostly-black South African to get or be born into British citizenship, if it's difficult at all), it doesn't sound likely.

*** Uh, OP? [[Unfortunate Implications|You do realize that not every black person in the UK is an African immigrant, right? And that not every person born in an African country is black?]]