Today I happened to have been reading two books. The first “Imperial Hubris” by Anonymous, and the second (to my children) “Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince”.
I realized after 20 pages of the new Potter that He Who Must Not be Named, the Dark One, or Voldemort, is Osama bin laden. Of course he is. Now bridges are being blown up, there are not just mere explosions but the use of giants. The war waged against muggles/infidels. I am not alone in spotting the link.
In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Voldemort takes up terrorism. The Dark Lord and his Death Eaters—who had gained strength in the earlier installments and have finally arrived in force—use their newfound power to spread fear in familiar ways. They destroy bridges. They murder innocents. They compel children to kill their elders. (They’re also behind a magical and destructive hurricane. Does J.K. Rowling know something we don’t?)
Or:
Half-Blood Prince is the first book in the series to hint openly at an awareness of the post-9/11 global political climate. An amusing opening chapter — which, nonetheless, hints at many not-at-all-amusing incidents, particularly considering how closely this book was released to the July 2005 London terrorist bombings — that gets in a clever dig at Tony Blair serves to paint Voldemort as an invisible but omnipresent figure of menace not unlike Osama bin Laden.
One can go a little too far. I stopped this nonsense the second i saw a piece discussing what character Dick Cheney might be.
