Binge watching the Harry Potter movies [View all]
I'm pet sitting so I have the tv on. The Harry Potter saga is not just a personal coming of age story, but also coming of age in a time of turmoil where every person has to take a side, choosing either to preserve a stable system or burn that system down. I have never noticed an equivilancy in the story. The bad guy is the bad guy and manipulates or scares people to support him. Others support him to satisfy their personal perversions or to gain power and look how it turns out for them one after another. The last 2 sequels are airing tonight and they are not a joy to watch. Do people causing the suffering in real life like the suffering and loss that comes back on them and theirs?
The first Harry Potter novel came out in the 1990s. A huge number of people have read the series, seen the movies. I can never understand how people read or watch hours and hours of either classwork or entertainment and absorb none of it. Voldemort was a bad guy who tried his utmost to destroy the world he was part of, was thwarted, and came back to try again. I can't be the only person noticing that in this instance, life is imitating art and there are people embracing one willing to destroy what there is, for no other reason than he wants to.
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