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[ladyhadhafang.livejournal.com]

Am I the only one a little bothered by Dumbledore? Not only with the fact he could end up in the Guinness Book Of World Records for "Most Incompetent Headmaster of All Time" (though I'm sure there's worse. :P), but also because...he just bugs me. I know JKR was trying to write him as the "flawed Yoda", so to speak (and to be fair, he's nowhere near Yoda. XD), but it's also how...preachy he gets. Towards Fudge, for example. You know, in Goblet of Fire, with, "You place too much importance on purity of blood, yadda yadda et cetera et cetera" -- which considering how he treated Tom Riddle and the Slytherins is...slightly hypocritical isn't it? Probably bad writing on JKR's part, though. :/

Anyways, sorry 'bout the rambling. Thoughts?

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Re: Why Lily Was Not an Oppressed Minority, Part 2

[sweettalkeress.livejournal.com]

"She takes the internecine squabble of a tiny population that killed a few dozen people in a single country and equates it with the biggest war in history, one that involved 5 continents and killed over 50 million people."

Tell me about it. Besides the rampant discrimination against non-magics, this is probably my biggest beef with the series. How she thinks she's showing the horrors of World War II in a dinky fantasy series with a plot-device villain and a bunch of children I have no idea. But here's the thing: World War II, the Holocaust, and related subjects were such horrible and influential events in the history of the world that they can't BE duplicated in a fantasy setting, especially not one as childish as Rowling's. I am Jewish, I've studied the Holocaust on and off for several years, and to say that the situation Rowling's set up is in any way equivalent to the Nazi war crimes is just plain insulting.

Re: Why Lily Was Not an Oppressed Minority, Part 2

[ladyhadhafang.livejournal.com]

*This*, just this! :D

And even worse, she never really explains why the Death Eaters join Voldemort. Regarding Hitler, the reason he managed to win Germany to his cause -- when the sane response should have been, "Cart the crazy man off to a mental institution, plzthx?" -- was that Germany was bitter, down on their luck, and in a really bad economic depression. In a way, they saw Hitler as the only person who could really save them (and you know how the rest went. :/).

If Rowling had at least given the Death Eaters motivations -- which is good no matter what the circumstances -- if the whole Nazi comparison had a goddamn *point*...maybe it wouldn't have been so bad. (YMMV)