Edited sentence: " </blockquote>  In a review in the Telegraph, Rowling praised a book of Mitford's letters, drawing a negative response from a Conservative Party MP." Rowling explained."I was trying to subvert the genre.An education officer at The Jewish Museum in London, said the stories could be used to help children deal with racism in the playground.And really, don't thank me.I even called my daughter after her.I love the way she never outgrew some of her adolescent traits, remaining true to her politics - she was a self-taught socialist - throughout her life.I think I've read everything she wrote.I wished I'd had the nerve to do something like that.I'm not with either of them.Rowling said that Voldemort is like Hitler and the Arian ideal.Rowling said the Civil rights theme shown with Hermione and the rights of elves was fairly autobiographical.Rowling said, "When my great-aunt gave me Hons and Rebels when I was 14, she instantly became my heroine.Rowling says she is Left-wing and that there are a certain amount of politics in her books.Rowling's values are apparant in her writing.She ran away from home to fight in the Spanish Civil War, taking with her a camera that she had charged to her father's account.She said she had invented the idea that some wizards were not considered to be “pure”, and realised the similarities with the Nazis' beliefs only afterwards.She said that she thinks children are interested in issues of race relations and civil rights.The fantasy world of Hogwarts is secular, sexual, multicultural, and multiracial and the books present very real problems--embarrassment, prejudice, depression, anger, poverty, death.The most influential writer on Rowling is civil rights activist Jessica Mitford.The two groups of people who are constantly thanking me are wiccans (white witches) and boarding schools.Time Magazine noted that Rowling adapts the  "politically, culturally, and  psychologically" conservative genre of fantasy for her own progressive purposes.When an interviewer from the Guardian suggested her books portrayed a conservative world, she replied, "So I'm told repeatedly