【Jin Seo】
Comparisons between the plot of the Harry Potter series and Jin Seothe Trump administration are apparently not stopping any time soon.
What started as the post-election mantra of "Even Hogwarts fell to Voldemort" has morphed into daily comparisons between Potter villains and Trump appointees. These parallels have been criticized as being reductive, juvenile and politically useless -- Donald Trump is a real human being capable of inflicting real harm and Voldemort is a made-up snake man from a YA series, after all.
But what these critics don't seem to realize is that there are several very real and certainly not Photoshopped moments in the Potter series that seem to directly and literally speak to our current political situation.
Of course, if these passages didn't exist, critics would be 100% correct. But as it stands, they do. Interesting!
When Hagrid predicted the election of Donald Trump in 'The Sorcerer's Stone'
Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable The whole chapter about Steve Bannon in 'The Chamber of Secrets'
Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable The passage where Voldemort compares himself directly to several members of the Trump administration
Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable The Triwizard Tournament task that was just 'Calling your reps'
Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable The first appearance of Dolores Umbridge in 'The Order of the Phoenix'
Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable The whole chapter that was just JK Rowling talking about how sweaty the Trump sons are
Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable When Umbridge had Harry carve that Trump speech into his hand
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