Harry Potter Is a Brat.......NOT!!!!

First, before you read this post, I would like to say that if you are liberally-inclined and intolerant of more conservative political beliefs, I would suggest that you skip over this post. I have never written a political-type post before on this blog, and I don't really intend to ever again after this. However, I felt that I needed to today.

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I read a conservative blog by a guy named Jon Swift for some alternative views on current events. Today, while reading my feeds, I came upon possible the most inane post I have ever read: Harry Potter Is a Brat, by Jon Swift. Before reading this post, I would suggest that you read the other, because this is in response to it. In fact, the text of this post is taken from a comment I made on his blog. Here goes:

My goodness, you have written some pretty wacky posts, but this one was the most inane I have ever seen on your blog (respectfully, and no offense)...

I suppose that you haven't taken the time to separate the books from your ultra-religious dogma. Yes, in some areas, I agree with you, that the morality shown in the world of Harry Potter is a little bit loose, but isn't it the same in our world? Moreover, the books are meant for entertainment. It is obvious that you took these books way to seriously. Moreover, I almost hope that your assertion that reading Harry Potter books is taking children away from doing more "important" things, like playing video games that will "prepare" them for the wars they will fight in later times. This is silly.

I will ask you a question: would you rather have a bunch of uneducated, illiterate, trigger-happy morons that want to kill terrorists, or would you rather have well-read people who can make a choice as to their political allegiances based upon history, common sense, and things that they have read? Being well read doesn't mean that you have to be a liberal commie!

Also, I felt that your personal attacks toward Rowling were completely uncalled for. Personally, I think you are jealous that you will never be as filthy rich and successful as she is.

I will have to agree with some of the other comments on this post, that analogise Potter with a republican. Allow me to attempt to show you why I think this. Let us look upon his allegiances: he is against government officials who try to tell us that nothing is wrong; he is against the dominant form of media, the Daily Profit. These government officials in the book, such as Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge, are the ones who were saying that Voldemort had not returned and that nothing was wrong, and that people who said otherwise were war-/fear-mongers. Doesn't this remind you of the Democrats who said that Iraq wasn't a problem, and that terrorists weren't a threat?

Now lets look at the more obvious similarity. The Daily Profit, a newspaper publication that is in the pocket of the Ministry of Magic, which in the previous paragraph was analogised as pacifist, "I Surrender" liberals, is the dominant form of media in the Harry Potter world. In the U.S., most of the media is extremely liberally biased, and is in the pocket of the liberals. Because Harry Potter is opposed to both of these things (the Ministry and the Daily Profit), which I have characterised as "liberal/Democrat", via the transitive property of logic, we must conclude that Potter is conservative/Republican. I mean, it is so obvious: he and Dumbledore had been urging the magical world to get into war and action, and to fight the evil enemy. DOESN'T THIS REMIND YOU OF BUSH??????????

So, take my advice and cool off; Harry Potter is for amusement. You remind me of those people who were saying that Sponge-Bob-Square-Pants is a homosexual conspiracy to taint our children into buggering creeps, etc., etc., etc. In reality, however, he is merely a whimsical, loveable, silly children's entertainment character. Your little boys aren't going to be castrating themselves just because of a TV character...

So here is what I suggest: first, reread the books and try to see them from another perspective. If you aren't amused, don't ruin it for everyone else. By the popularity of the books, it seems that plenty of other people like them; let other people enjoy what you can't.

P.S., I do agree that the play Daniel Radcliffe is acting in is rather disturbing..........................enough said

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Phweuw. I had to get that out of my system. All done, thanks for listening.