Another influence on Rowling?

[mary-j-59.livejournal.com]

A friend just loaned me her copies of Jeeves and Wooster, and my sister and I watched this one last week. We couldn't stop laughing! But - note the symbol in the background? WHY is Harry wandering around with the symbol of the English fascists on his forehead? It really doesn't make sense to me.

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[mary-j-59.livejournal.com]

Well, I've been asking people this same question for years.

So you have! And, though we don't agree about everything, now that I've seen this clip, I totally agree with you about this. It is just deeply weird that little kids have come to think this symbol is cool. But they have. I know - I've heard them. Heck, I've even handed out stickers at library parties! And the children were happy to get them. Had I known what that mark was a symbol of, I certainly wouldn't have wanted to give it to innocent little children as a prize at a party.

As to the reasoning behind it, as with Harry's awful behavior in the last two books, I'm sure Rowling expects readers to see it as a symbol of Voldemort, not as something intrinsic to Harry. But that reasoning doesn't work for me. It might, of course, for some readers.