izzy rp

#that's it, that's the show

Oh, this immediately set off antisemitic and fascist alarms in my head.

If you 1) haven’t read Potter or 2) received a lackluster Holocaust education or 3) both, let me provide you with JUST A SMATTERING of the parallels between the Death Eaters and the Nazis:

Death Eaters considered muggleborns “not witches/wizards” and confiscated their wands/Nazis considered Jews “not Germans” and confiscated their travel documents

When Death Eaters took over the Ministry of Magic, a whole new department was formed to print propaganda materials about the “dangers” of muggles and muggleborns/Nazi propaganda is downright legendary for how all-encompassing it was, but indeed, the idea that Jews and “degenerates” were “dangerous” was very prevalent in it

The Death Eaters are obsessed with “preserving blood purity”/the Nazis were obsessed with “the Aryan race”

Scenes of a trial in the DE-run Ministry of Magic are almost word-for-word recreations of pre-deportation interrogations of Jews

Muggleborns are no longer permitted to attend Hogwarts/Jews were forced out of academic institutions and denied access to radios, which were a major form of receiving news at the time

What remained of Hogwarts was being systematically dismantled and destroyed/mass book burnings and shutdowns of “subversive” academics and educational centers were common

Voldemort is half-Muggle/there’s a common myth that Hitler was half-Jewish

Hermione, a muggleborn, is forcibly branded with the slur “mudblood”/Jews were forced to wear yellow stars emblazoned with the word “Jew” (which is a normal descriptor, but can also be used as a slur)

World Cup scenes in the fourth book are reminiscent of pogroms like Krystallnacht

…..AND THIS IS ONLY WHAT I CAN REMEMBER HAVING LAST READ THE FINAL BOOK WHEN IT CAME OUT. As you can see, it’s not subtle. It’s 100% a Nazi analogy.

And now I will remind you that TERFs have recently suggested that to win, they need to say trans people and their cis allies are Nazis. That’s only very slightly a paraphrase, by the way. If Tumblr’s blog search wasn’t so broken I could search my own blog and I’ve taken a screenshot of this LITERALLY SOMETIME IN THE LAST SIX WEEKS.

She has gone full fascist. Deplatform her NOW. And if you want to whine about “but it’s my childhood” “but it’s my special interest” “but it’s fun” fine. Did you know a lot of members of the Nazi party joined it not because they hated Jews but because they liked Hitler’s economic messaging, or who joined reluctantly in order to hang onto jobs or prestige? Do you know what we call those people today?

We call them Nazis.