Monday, January 26, 2015

Harry Potter Culture/Warfare

The Culture of the Wizards in Harry Potter (as with several popular young adult novels such as Percy Jackson, Warriors, Wings of Fire etc.) seem to be much less genderized in then the so called "Mughals" (non magical humans). Men and women virtually have the same roles in government and warfare. Another interesting aspect of the Wizarding culture is that how Wizards shun Mughals like real world racism. Sources of conflict and warfare in the Wizarding world is conflicts between Moderate Wizards in the Ministry of Magic government and the Extremists (known as the Death Eaters) lead by Lord Voldemort over the issue of Mughals and "pure blooded Wizards". The resulting violence is mostly assassination of supporters of the rival faction and some minor skirmishes, reslutling in the deaths of maybe 50 people in the 1st Wizarding War and c.100 deaths in the 2nd, which is considered by the Wizards a "horrific and bloody war". This shows that the Wizards will probably lose a war with the Mughals, because they are not used to a full scale war and they lack the logistics and manpower for a large scale war.

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