The Impact of a Post-9/11 World on the Wizarding World: Difference between revisions

Created page with "I think most discussions of Harry Potter and 9/11 get stuck at a not very useful question: "why didn't the wizards stop 9/11?" Of course, the wizarding world has a long history of ignoring genocide, atrocities, and mass violence in the human world. One of the clearest themes of the books is that any group with such immense power and privilege-- in this case, the ability to warp reality itself-- is as a community necessarily going to ignore the horrors of other groups as..."
(Created page with "I think most discussions of Harry Potter and 9/11 get stuck at a not very useful question: "why didn't the wizards stop 9/11?" Of course, the wizarding world has a long history of ignoring genocide, atrocities, and mass violence in the human world. One of the clearest themes of the books is that any group with such immense power and privilege-- in this case, the ability to warp reality itself-- is as a community necessarily going to ignore the horrors of other groups as...")
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