[Stoat]

Not having read the books or seen the movies it's difficult to comment meaningfully, but if the Leftish tendencies of the Potter empire are less than overt, one is reminded of Freud's famous rejoinder "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar".

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Well, Rowling did feel that need to out Dumbledore after the fact.

[BenLurkin]

“Reading it, one can see that JK Rowling - like many cultured English people - believes there was a real Thatcherite revolution, that it was a disaster, and that culture’s only chance is to survive as an occult science.”

I’m not saying this guy is a drug addict — I don’t know if he is or not. But that sure sounds like classic pot addled thinking.

[Cicero]

"Harry's uncle and aunt - Muggles par excellence - live like heroes of Margaret Thatcher's world, in a neat little estate where all the houses are identical," he said.

May I be the first to say that this guy is so blinded by Marxist ideology that he can't see the nose in front of his face?

Could anyone with a lick of sense think that Maggie Thatcher's world is a world of comfortable suburban conformists?

[r9etb]

Harry Potter is a left-winger and the seven books by JK Rowling are a diatribe against Thatcherite Britain, a French philosopher said on Friday on the day of the last novel's publication in French.

LOL! Well, not really. If anything, they're a diatribe against Chamberlain's Britain, and a validation of Winston Churchill.

[ClearCase_guy]

French Philosophy hasn't been the same since Jerry Lewis started setting the tone.

Actually, their decline precedes the nutty professor, but I don't think he helped.

[PurpleMan]

Just spent the summer and early fall reading them all.

They are a great read. Seven years of character and plot development.

Besides, she creates this amazing world of wizardy that is Tolkien-esque.

WOrth the time.

[tired1]

tell that to Bill.

[dragonblustar]

JK Rowling is a lefty. She once belonged to Amnesty International, she stuck out against Christians and President Bush after Katrina.

[Nachum]

I think that all of this is a bit of a stretch. Maybe Gulliver's Travels were written as political commentary, but it ended up on the cartoon channel.

Rowlings may be closer to a liberal democrat in her heart, but her wizarding world is a just a fantasy story after all.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Here’s a flash: The Mikado was really about Victorian England, not Imperial Japan. Sheesh. Only an intellectual could get excited about something quite so obvious.

Yes, career sponge J. K. Rowling hit it big because her daydreams about being granted status and power resonated with all the other life-long sponges.

[TheDon]

Yeah, and Robin Hood and A Christmas Carol were also pro-statist stories...

[gracesdad]

Shoot, from the headline I thought he was a fellow left-hander.

[Wuli]

Anyone can give their own interpretation of what something represents, as an analogy, to them; and that’s all it is - their own interpretation. His critique should not be read as anything anymore definitive than purely his own version of what the Potter stories mean to him.

[Wuli]

A “French philosopher said on Friday”..........

That tells you enough.

[longtermmemmory]

J K Rowling copied the ARISTOCRATIC bording school structures for the priviledged class. (ironic given Rowlings recent comments and some of the sexual deviants that came out of the british boarding school system)

[MarkL]

Well, having read the books, and seen the movies, I can state that the person who wrote this article is clearly a complete whack job... Saying that this analysis is completely ridiculous is an incredible understatement.

Mark

[dragonblustar]

Asked whether the final Potter book with lots of killings made it suitable for young children, she replied: "I know what you mean, and it filled me with unease to hear that Harry Potter is read aloud to 5-year-olds. They should be at least seven."

http://www.antara.co.id/en/arc/2007/10/26/i-wont-allow-a-harry-potter-sequel-author-jk-rowling-says/

"I don't take any responsibility for the lunatic fringes of my own religion,” she added.

"The truth is that, like Graham Greene, my faith is sometimes that my faith will return. It's something I struggle with a lot," Rowling admitted. "On any given moment if you asked me [if] I believe in life after death, I think if you polled me regularly through the week, I think I would come down on the side of yes — that I do believe in life after death. [But] it's something that I wrestle with a lot. It preoccupies me a lot, and I think that's very obvious within the books.”

http://www.christiantoday.com/article/harry.potter.author.reveals.books.christian.allegory.her.struggling.faith/14052-2.htm

"My truthful answer to you... I always thought of Dumbledore as gay," said Rowling, whose comments were posted on the Potter fan website

http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=578de009-03fd-46df-8722-cef9de657d32&&Headline=Harry+Potter+author+'outs'+Dumbledore

[Psycho_Bunny]

Were I ever to put this much thought into something as trite as Harry Potter, I'd know it was time to give up.

[MEGoody]

. . .but if the Leftish tendencies of the Potter empire are less than overt

Don't know about the books themselves, but since Rowlings announced that one of the characters was homosexual, that kinda tells us that she is a leftist.

[RightWhale]

Milner displays no philosophic thought in this critique. Political and literary criticism, maybe.