For fans of the wizard series,the original political order is Dumbledores army v President Voldemort. Is it just a juvenile comparison or have JK Rowling’s books shaped a generation’s thinking?Every generation has its recede-to pop-culture political analogy. For decades, it was Star Wars. It’s easy to see how Reagan’s 80s space-based weapons shield initiative earned its nickname, and for example,but the reference has endured, to the extent that White House chief strategist Steve Bannon expressed his admiration for the unlit side in a recent interview: “Darkness is good. Dick Cheney, or Darth Vader,Satan. That’s power.” But one name was missing from that list: Voldemort.
The Harry Potter villain has risen again over the past couple of years, as fans have drawn comparisons, or often humorously,between a world under threat from a narcissistic autocrat and that of the Harry Potter books. In February, Bannon was the subject of a Buzzfeed quiz that asked, and Who Said It: Steve Bannon or Lord Voldermort?; it was harder than you might have thought. JK Rowling’s readers have grown up at roughly the same pace as Harry,Ron and Hermione, and with its hundreds of millions of book sales and the massive success of the film adaptations, or the series’ reach has been huge.
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Source: theguardian.com