A Marxist Harry Potter?
p2pnet news | Movies:- “You cannot imagine how his ideas caught me, Harry, inflamed me,” Hogwarts head and master wizard Albus Dumbledore says in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” the final Harry Potter book.
Under discussion is rival wizard Gellert Grindelwald, Dumbledore’s friend, and now Dumbledore’s homosexuality has being revealed by Potter author J.K. Rowling, a, “new realm of interpretative possibility” is opened up, says the Telegraph, going on:
Already symposiums are held in universities around the world to debate issues such as “Moral alignment and meta-narrative in the works of J K Rowling”; and “Comrade Potter: A Marxist Reading of Harry Potter”.
Academic attention will, “shift from Harry to Dumbeldore and the headmaster’s sexuality will give a new texture to the novels, colouring the way in which they are read,” says the story.
And could this take on a deeper, darker meaning?
“It is quite possible that the intolerant evangelical Christian Right in America will start burning Harry Potter books because, they claim, the headmaster of Hogwarts is a predatory homosexual who corrupts vulnerable minors (Harry is an orphan, remember),” the Telegraph, states, adding:
“After all, they have done it before, on at least a dozen occasions. On March 26 2002, for example, the Rev George Bender of the Harvest Assembly of God Church in Butler County, Pennsylvania, gathered his congregation for a Harry Potter book-burning.
“He claimed the books encouraged witchcraft and celebrated the occult.”
Laura Mallory, a mother of four from Georgia, would agree.
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, she wants the Potter books taken off the shelves of school libraries.
“My prayer is that parents would wake up, that the subtle way this is presented as harmless fantasy would be exposed for what it really is: a subtle indoctrination into anti-Christian values,” the story has a saying, adding:
“A homosexual lifestyle is a harmful one. That’s proven, medically.”
But UK gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell, “welcomed the outing as a victory for ‘tolerance and understanding’,” says the SMH.
“My only disappointment is that the author didn’t make Dumbledore’s homosexuality more explicit in the books,” he says.
“It would have been a much more powerful message.”
Stay tuned.
Also See:
Dumbledore’s homosexuality – Hogwarts wizard Dumbledore was a fairy!, October 20, 2007
Telegraph – Now the search for subtext will truly begin, October 21, 2007
Sydney Morning Herald – Dumbledore comes out in the world, October 21, 2007
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October 22nd, 2007 at 9:54 am
“A homosexual lifestyle is a harmful one. That’s proven, medically.”
I am strait so I am neutral on this issue. But I am a scientist and I am sorry but there is no evidence of that.
If she was thinking about STD (Sexualy Transmited Disease) it is true there is a danger to be gay but there is also a danger to be straight.
The harmfull life time is promiscuity regardless of sexual orientation.
For some reasons Gay have the tendency to be more promiscus than straight. This is the only thing.
And now the shocker for women it is actually safer to be lesbienne than to be straight.
Personally I am totaly faithful with my wife and I would have remain so even if they were no STD.
Faithfulness is part of true love after all.
This beeing said I observe a cardinal rule not to tell people how to conduct their life and not to judge them unless they ask me to do so.
October 22nd, 2007 at 10:05 am
I don’t know why people think that Carl Marx is the father of communist.
Carl Marx underlined the danger of uncontoled capitalism as it has the tendecy to become extreme.
We can see this hapening right now. Since the end of the cold war there is nothing to contain capitalism.
Carl Marx predicted that capitalism will self destroy unless it is controled. But Carl Marx also correctly predicted that Communism would self destroy as it did. He also said that extreme capitalism is equivalent to comunism because all the powers end up into the end of few people in charge of few megacorporations not working under democratic principles thus stoping human progress.
Carl Marx while underlining brillantly the problem with capitalism never proposed any solution to it since he saw the same danger in both systems.
October 22nd, 2007 at 3:26 pm
Who is Carl Marx?
Anyway, look up Gay Bowel Syndrome and then tell me how it isn’t harmful, Mr. “I’m a scientist.”
October 23rd, 2007 at 1:26 am
“Anyway, look up Gay Bowel Syndrome and then tell me how it isn’t harmful, Mr. “I’m a scientist.”
Read my post again carefuilly and this will answer your question.
October 29th, 2007 at 4:05 pm
you are VERY wrong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Harry Potter is not harmful!!!!!!!!!!!1 he is a christien!!!!!!! he celebrates CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wiccans do not!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11