I absolutely loved this essay. Not only was it extremely insiteful, but most of it rings true. In my opinion, novels are a way to simplify human nature in ways which are easier for the every day person to grasp. Being interested in government and the trends which sway a country, I completely understood the essay and greatly enjoyed reading it. (I think that was a bit repetative, but we'll forget that from now.)

There was only one point, really, which I completely disagreed on, not on principle, but on the connotation of your statement.

"Can such men as Voldemort and Grindelwald be called traitors, labeled evil and corrupt, or should we refer to them as revolutionaries?"

The connotation of the section which this came from infers that men such as Voldemort and Grindelwald were working for the greater good. In their delusional realities, they were working towards the greater good, and many others agreed with that, and yes, they were revolutionaries in their own way. They did want to change the world - moreso Voldemort than Grindelwald -, but that doesn't mean their revolutionary tendencies are for the greater good. When speaking of Harry Potter, I often equate Voldemort with Hitler, and the death eaters with the Nazis. In many ways they are similar. In modern day soceity, not very many people - aside from residual Nazi supporters and neo-Nazis - would categorize the actions of Hitler as the actions of a revolutionary. Therefore, by labeling Voldemort as a revolutionary, the connotation which the word holds contradicts with the portrayal of the character and the actions of that character.

I hope that made sense. And if it didn't, you can completely disregard all of that nonesense.

I really did enjoy reading this, though. It was both well thought out and well written. I greatly admire your skill as a writer.

this was a well writen and true essay.

Well-thought-out, good grammar and spelling, and a damn good idea.

Yes. This essay officially counts as a Good Thing.

It's a bit too verbose in my opinion, but a Good Thing nonetheless.

You should submit this to 's editorials section.

ho this was brilliant, truly and I completlly understand you I have th same tendacy to delve into the belife angd govermental system in fantasy books(or any books :) )

I agree that an undecurennt of resentment is bulding and I belive should it come will flow from the mind of the muggleborns whose situation makes them much more open minded then their counterparts in the magical world (aka purebloods)

I feel that the magical world's greatest problem is his stangation and the fact that he is stuck in the past.
Take the garments for example robes and clothes are much more difficult to handle than what we term muggle clothes. the inssitance in that direction points to a deep fear from progress and in fact from a fear of the muggle world which the magical world is in many ways dependant on (from this insecurity and fear steams the hatred torward muggle and muggle borns).

However I'm not sure if you could term the dark lords as revoulenaries as their deeds spring from a lust for power and not from a deep conviction to change the world it is like yhe insurection of power in germany at 1933 but with only half of the shreads of twisted ideals the natzis had.
nonetheless I agree that the undercurennt of revoulotion that had been building could have swayed a lot of younger men for the dark cause so perheps this subject requires further discussion.

on the subject of male and woman equality I feel this springs from two things:
the first is the fact that magic strengh is not determind by gender so the male dominace in strenght which exsist in muggle society (physical strengh) plays no part here so there was nothing for male dominance to feed on.
a second fact which may have helped cause this equality is the exsistance of sentinel non human races the competition moved to be between the races and not the genders on a fhrthuer note it appears that no rascisem as we know it exsist in the magical word as Lee Jordan is black a fact no one not even malfoy comment on it. Malfoy dosen't even comment on the Patil twins both of whome are indies anyway you get the drft rascisem seemed to be applied to muggles and non human races.

On a last note I'd like to point out that there were variuos occourences of rebbelions in magical history which are connected to the Goblins (the goblins rebellions)

anyway just wanted to spill my take on it
I really enjoyed reading your work :)
~Namwolf