HashOut

Over the past few years I have been reading the Harry Potter series, and I have noticed some key similarities between the prejudice and racism in the “wizarding world” and the “real world”. One example of this would be the existence of Death Eaters in the wizarding world, and the Nazis of the real world. Another example would be Voldemorts role in the wizarding world, compared to his muggle* counter part Adolf Hitler. There are other minor details I have noticed that I will discus later.

The Death Eaters that exist in Harry’s world are in many ways similar to the Nazi armies that once existed in the past of the real world. The main goal of the Death Eater was to exterminate the world of “mud-blood” or half blood wizards, whose parents or ancestors are of non-magical breed. There real world counter part the Nazi, tried to exterminate the Jewish People by means of death and torture. They both believed they were more powerful then the people they killed, and boasted that to the world.

Another similarity was the existence real world existence of Adolf Hitler and the magical existence of Tom Marvolo Riddle or more popularly known as Lord Voldemort. Both Adolf and Voldemort had many followers, and both had the same intention…to rid the world of another people that they had developed hatred for. Adolf led the Nazi party in the attempted demise of the Jews. Voldemort led (and still leads) the Death Eaters against the half bloods.

Beside the similarities of the Nazi and Death Eater, there are other things that tie in with the racism that has been seen (and in some cases is still seen) in both the magical and real worlds. While the wizards of Jk Rowlings world have never shown a prejudism towards who is black and who is white, some wizards have used the term “mud-blood” to denote wizards that are not of a pure blood line, or a person who has both muggle* and magical parents. In our world we face the problem of people that think they are better than one another just because of the color of there skin. In both worlds a lot of people have come to accept the differences, but there are still the few that think those differences are important.

It is true that racism and prejudism exists everywhere whether you want to believe it or not. Unfortunately the world is not perfect, and we have these problems. But when you think about it, where would the world be without problems?

*a muggle is a person who has no magic (a regular human)