Having only seen the movies, I can see that many of the characters are strikingly similar to politicians and influential people in our everyday life. (Like the Head Mistress who does the hostile take-over at Hogwarts - she reminds me of the current secretary of Education under the Bush administration... Margaret Spellings)
see her picture here: http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.nndb.com/people/892/000079655/spellings-2-sized.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.nndb.com/people/892/000079655/&h=328&w=218&sz=20&hl=en&start=4&um=1&tbnid=CzaV6XHgJDXICM:&tbnh=118&tbnw=78&prev=/images%3Fq%3DMargaret%2BSpellings%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN
For those who don't know - Margaret Spellings is the one who withdrew funding for PBS, and NPR (claiming that it was gay mind control) and helped Bush to set up "No Child Left Behind"
2007-08-04 07:48:31 · 3 answers · asked by rabble rouser 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
To see a picture of Delores Umbridge from Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix:
http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/warner_brothers/harry_potter_and_the_order_of_the_phoenix/imelda_staunton/phoenix5.jpg
2007-08-04 07:51:24 · update #1
WCSteel - you are sooo wrong about that.
"Standardized Testing" and uniformity has always been a republican thing...
2007-08-04 07:58:49 · update #2
Further evidence:
http://www.wisepagan.com/article001.html
2007-08-04 10:36:49 · update #3
Most of us have run into at least one person like Umbridge.
They are not hard to find.
Evil dressed in pink, smiling and with kitty cats on the walls is still evil.
Plaudits to the actor playing that part, I really wanted to haul of and paste her one in the chops she played it so well.
J.K.R.'s Potter series is of course very much about morality, about good and bad. She gives a lot of examples of good behavior and evil behavior but she does not preach. She lets the reader draw their own conclusions about what is good and what isn't.
The fact that we can see parallels to certain people and institutions past and present in the books only reflects that good and evil behavior exists and can be identified in the real world, though some times not quite as readily as in Ms. Rowling's books.
She has certainly done more for the young people of the world than a great number of institutions claiming that they are, combined.
2007-08-04 11:08:24 · answer #1 · answered by Gaspode 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Rowling asserted that the characters were based on no particular individual -- but rather a composite of various archetypes....
It's sad to think that there are real people who approach that level of irrationality....
2007-08-04 14:51:53 · answer #2 · answered by coragryph 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Absolutly not.
She is a product of the mind of JK Rowling who is british.
But if you want to look at it that way. She is more like a democrat than any conservative will ever been. She wants to control everything. Use of magic, Speech, student organizations, etc.
At least the socialist side of the Democrats act like that. The liberal side tends to be against these beleifs but they aren't heard very often.
2007-08-04 14:55:13 · answer #3 · answered by WCSteel 5 · 0⤊ 4⤋