There’s a great breakdown on YouTube by Shaun on the Harry Potter books, but one of the things that I like that he points out is that you can basically watch JK’s political stance change in real time as the books progress.
When she started writing them, she was “impoverished” (to some extent she also benefitted from help like living in a place owned by her sister for free), and the story starts out railing against the system and those in power. As the books took off and she began to benefit more from that same system, the plot began to be more about how the system is great and shouldn’t be questioned, but only the right kinds of people should have power. If you’re a Good Guy, you can use the Killing Curse and it’s okay because you’re a Good Guy. If anybody else uses the Killing Curse, then they’re a Bad Guy and that’s horrible. The wizards keeping magic away from the Muggles, a power that could solve many of the world’s problems, is a bad thing at first, but Harry goes on to become a magic cop to enforce that very same ban at the end of the series. There are tons of examples in the story.
There’s a great breakdown on YouTube by Shaun on the Harry Potter books, but one of the things that I like that he points out is that you can basically watch JK’s political stance change in real time as the books progress.
When she started writing them, she was “impoverished” (to some extent she also benefitted from help like living in a place owned by her sister for free), and the story starts out railing against the system and those in power. As the books took off and she began to benefit more from that same system, the plot began to be more about how the system is great and shouldn’t be questioned, but only the right kinds of people should have power. If you’re a Good Guy, you can use the Killing Curse and it’s okay because you’re a Good Guy. If anybody else uses the Killing Curse, then they’re a Bad Guy and that’s horrible. The wizards keeping magic away from the Muggles, a power that could solve many of the world’s problems, is a bad thing at first, but Harry goes on to become a magic cop to enforce that very same ban at the end of the series. There are tons of examples in the story.