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Originally Posted by wallflower1127  You have a very valid point, and well made. Hitler had no monopoly on evil. Perhaps we all focused on that era because of the book's European connections, as in Fleur and Viktor and their respective schools. |
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Originally Posted by Roxane Dear Alohamora,
Thank you for saying that!
I fully agree, and as far as I remember it was one of the things I tryed to say when this thread was started.
There are some obvious connections JKR made to WWII, (Dumbledore vs.Grindelwald 1945) BUT she had much more in her mind than that. Otherwise she could have made the connections much more direct. |
If you look carefully, Voldemort's designs for the future mostly seem to resemble the South African Apartheid more than anything else. The wizard community was a minority. He wanted to establish rulership of this minority over the majority muggle population. Almost, if not exactly, what happend in the Africas. Looking at it from the point of view of the Spanish and Aztecs would also work, I think.