We say “read another book”, but I’m not sure this person has actually read Harry Potter. “Circumstances” didn’t create Lord Voldemort. He was basically a kid who skinned cats alive for fun. He murdered someone to make his first Horcrux before he graduated. He didn’t even really believe the pureblood supremacist ideology his followers did, he just cynically used it to gather power to himself.
Dumbledore explicitly points all this out to Harry in their last conversation at the precipice to the afterlife (just like how every other mystery in the series is resolved with an authority figure straight up telling the reader what happened). Harry and Voldy were similarly deprived as kids due to a tragedy, then got the same opportunities and education at Hogwarts, and ended up being two completely different people despite their similarities.
In my headcanon Harry is quickly disillusioned by his time in the Wizarding government, and comes to realize the role he played in reproducing the status quo rather that fighting for a new radically equal reality. He graduates right before the global economic crisis and gets radicalized, quitting his job and living in the wilderness making Marxist pamphlets and distributing them via a flock of owls that he has cast magical protection spells on and trained not to let themselves be followed back to the hideout. Essentially the whole thing with Voldemort is like the 1905 Revolution, and then somewhere down the line Harry Potter is the Lenin of the wizarding world’s equivalent to the 1917 revolution.
My headcanon is that Dobby’s writing spreads like fire amongst the house elves and other oppressed magical peoples, and Harry has his throat slit while asleep with the rest of the magocracy during the opening hours of the War of Magical Liberation.
We say “read another book”, but I’m not sure this person has actually read Harry Potter. “Circumstances” didn’t create Lord Voldemort. He was basically a kid who skinned cats alive for fun. He murdered someone to make his first Horcrux before he graduated. He didn’t even really believe the pureblood supremacist ideology his followers did, he just cynically used it to gather power to himself.
Dumbledore explicitly points all this out to Harry in their last conversation at the precipice to the afterlife (just like how every other mystery in the series is resolved with an authority figure straight up telling the reader what happened). Harry and Voldy were similarly deprived as kids due to a tragedy, then got the same opportunities and education at Hogwarts, and ended up being two completely different people despite their similarities.
perfect liberal conclusion in that it contains an implicit denial of material conditions being significant
Counterpoint: Harry grows up to be a cop
In my headcanon Harry is quickly disillusioned by his time in the Wizarding government, and comes to realize the role he played in reproducing the status quo rather that fighting for a new radically equal reality. He graduates right before the global economic crisis and gets radicalized, quitting his job and living in the wilderness making Marxist pamphlets and distributing them via a flock of owls that he has cast magical protection spells on and trained not to let themselves be followed back to the hideout. Essentially the whole thing with Voldemort is like the 1905 Revolution, and then somewhere down the line Harry Potter is the Lenin of the wizarding world’s equivalent to the 1917 revolution.
My headcanon is that Dobby’s writing spreads like fire amongst the house elves and other oppressed magical peoples, and Harry has his throat slit while asleep with the rest of the magocracy during the opening hours of the War of Magical Liberation.