The boring politics of Harry Potter
Channel: ItHadToBeSaid
Date: 2021-06-05

The Harry Potter books aim to teach positive lessons about solidarity and direct action, but so much more could have been made of the series. This video is about the shortcomings of JK Rowling's liberal/moderate philosophy, the problems the Harry Potter world would have in a post-Voldemort world, and how a more radical or revolutionary author might have solved these problems.

Links: 

My blog post on resistance in Harry Potter: https://theruleoffreedom.wordpress.com/2018/06/11/resistance-in-harry-potter/ 

My playlist on school and education: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMETT2hu5XU&list=PL3waFZldV-Y0Tfr1ArTe9bM9FShRGcdcW

Competition is bad for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbQycYt_twM

Stateless governance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5BE-qTgX50, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHqnzu_mQ6Y

Jessie Gender’s channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/lostrekkie/videos

Sexism in Harry Potter: https://web.archive.org/web/20060705003943/http://archive.salon.com/books/feature/2000/01/13/potter/index.html 

Fat shaming in Harry Potter: http://reelgirl.com/2012/09/fat-shaming-harry-potter-and-kidlit/ 

Harry Potter and the Half-Crazed Bureaucracy: https://web.archive.org/web/20070810010003/http://www.michiganlawreview.org/archive/104/6/Barton.pdf

A transcript of this video is available here: https://theruleoffreedom.wordpress.com/2021/06/05/the-boring-politics-of-harry-potter/