Analyze This!

All I have to say to people who cannot even enjoy a freaking childrens’ book without throwing a bunch of PeeCee babble into it is….Piss off! Seriously, it isn’t like JK Rowling ever claimed this book to be some kind of multicultural, kumbaya-inducing epic. If every single book has to have every single race and every single festival or none at all, where is the diversity in that? Me thinks someone needs to get off his moral high-horse and not buy the book if he doesn’t like it. I doubt JK Rowling would really miss the income! Oh, and how stupid is it to try to impose PeeCee limits on creativity! Bah! One last thing, isn’t it a typically lefty position to insist on a diversity of colors in the book, but will not allow for a diversity of opinions, since his position is the only right one, Damnit! How is this guys stupid indignation any different from the religious right, who were burning the Harry Potter books, claiming they taught witchcraft? Little difference between ideologues on both sides, ain’t it!

The new Harry Potter novel will become available at midnight. But I am afraid that in their excitement to devour it, U.S. readers may miss the nuances of J.K. Rowling’s peculiarly British take on issues of class and status. Here is what you need to know: Despite the books’ reflexive bow to political correctness and gender equality, Harry Potter is, in fact, an old-fashioned Tory, a conservative.