Politics and Potter

Here and Punch and Jude we like to keep our readers abreast of political dicussions across the globe. So it should come as no surprise that I feel the need to alert you to this bit of information.

Here's a taste:

The five Harry Potter books - enormously successful in French translation - are stiffed with "neo-liberal stereotypes" which caricature approvingly the "excesses of the Anglo-Saxon social model", Yocaris said.

Thus all representatives of the state (the Ministry of Magic) are lampooned as ridiculous, or incompetent or sinister. Harry goes to a "private" school, whose "micro-society" is a "pitiless jungle" which glorifies "individualism, competition and a cult of violence".

Thanks to www.mugglenet.com for the pointer (and don't ask how I came across that one).