It took 1,084,170 words for JK Rowling to tell the story of Harry Potter. Spanning seven books and a decade, from 1997-2007, her story shadowed a generation and overshadowed the school system, highlighting the declining competence of unionised education.

I wager that more than a million words have been spilled across the media since then, either scorning or praising the children’s author for her stance on biological supremacy.

This is a disheartening turn of events. What sort of civilisation finds it novel or newsworthy when a woman argues in favour of gender rights and criticises men for play-acting at womanhood? I have asked this rhetorically but the answer is, ‘a civilisation in sharp decline’.

The anger of this special class of men, who consider the rights of feelings to be more important than rights tied to reality, has manifested into a political movement on social media where they congregate in trans-aligned activist groups and issue violent threats.

In case you are wondering, no, the virtuous online government censors are not remotely interested in protecting JK Rowling’s safety. Most of those accounts remain online. The UK Police are more likely to arrest JK Rowling than her online abusers.

This is not the point I want to make.

With all of this activist noise going on, I believe people have forgotten why JK Rowling is so powerful and why the neo-Marxist, Woke zealots have decided to earmark her as the chief threat to their survival in the Culture Wars.

Long before the Harry Potter movies came out (a franchise that grossed $9.5 billion globally) we had the books.

The Harry Potter books were nothing short of a cultural phenomenon.

I was a child going through senior school when these books were released and I remember the extent of their social impact.

For Millennials, those who are now in their thirties, there is nothing to compare with Harry Potter aside from likening it to the moon landing.

These books were an escape. They presented school life as we wished it was. The world of Hogwarts did not treat children as idiots or pawns of the State raised to stick themselves to roads and cry about the weather. Instead, this magical world valued history, cultural lore, and adventure. The books were an antidote to an increasingly pathetic and Woke schooling system that had begun handing out participation awards to children who were reading about fighting monsters and defeating the Big State.

Teachers hated Harry Potter. They did not want us to read it. They tried to ban it from classrooms and dismissed it as not being ‘intellectual enough’.

Never mind that for the first time in living memory, young children were begging their parents to line up for hours every time a new book was released. Try and recall any other book in history where kids aged between 9 and 18, in their thousands, across multiple countries, were prepared to sit outside on the street for 24 hours just to buy it on the first day of release.

These children, of which I was one, would then vanish into their bedrooms to read the books cover-to-cover and pity anyone who disturbed them.

Today, teacher unions have decided that novels are ‘too difficult’ for generation TikTok to read. Their attention spans, it is argued, are not long enough to make it through anything as archaic as a book and so children are being deemed ‘too dumb to read’ and handed short stories and fragments of text. It is no wonder English literature is denounced as colonial and evil … students are too embarrassed to admit they cannot read it.

Harry Potter was on every desk, in every classroom, for every age group. The Year 7s took it just as seriously as the HSC students.

600 million copies have been printed, making it the best-selling book series in history.

This exposure allowed JK Rowling to reach into the minds of hundreds of millions of children and the messages she chose to promote are fascinating.

Harry Potter is a re-hash of the Jesus story – which is why I always found it amusing that religious conservatives wanted to ban it for ‘witchcraft’. JK Rowling very cleverly re-packaged the Jesus story of sacrifice, redemption, and parental love strong enough to overcome evil into a format that reached more children than the West’s failing churches. Kids were taught that doing the right thing, even at the expense of their life, was virtuous.

But a strong Christian undertone is not why the Woke hate JK Rowling and fear her writing.

Harry Potter educates children on the politics of the second world war.

It is, above all, a story about the evils of racism where the blood purity of the wizarding world parallels the philosophy of Nazism and classism. Indeed, the goal of the primary villain is to re-establish a world of magical purity and to murder half-bloods who refuse to be subjugated.

Littered through the books, even in the more innocent first story, are terms such as ‘mudbloods’, ‘squibs’, and ‘muggles’ – labels that define halfblood wizards, children of magical parents who cannot perform magic, and regular humans. Do you recognise the similarity to the casual way ‘colonial’, ‘white’, ‘oppressor’, and other race-based language is used to split society inside ‘polite’ conversation?

The philosophy of racism is accurately depicted as a slippery slope, where the villain is the catalyst – not the cause – of underlying hatred. He merely weaponised existing prejudices and co-ordinated a formal structure of hatred allowing people to act upon their deep-seated resentment.

My love letter to @jk_rowling | She is the heir of George Orwell’s legacy on freedom

“The Harry Potter books were an escape.

The world of Hogwarts did not treat children as idiots or pawns of the state, raised to stick themselves to roads and cry about the weather.

Kids valued… pic.twitter.com/ZdoWKZQ4Wx

— Alexandra Marshall (@ellymelly) April 25, 2024

How interesting it is to watch the majority of actors and actresses who starred in the Harry Potter films fail to learn the lesson that their characters lived through. It is as though they read the words but, like generation TikTok, failed to pay attention to what was being said.

Reading the series as an adult, the Orwellian Ministry of Magic and the way government bureaucracy was the first to fall to an authoritarian influence, has accurately predicted our current situation.

Those government bodies, designed to keep us safe, are making the world more dangerous.

The Ministry of Magic, once captured, immediately tried to intervene in the school system and poison the minds of the next generation, just as modern schools and universities have captured three generations and indoctrinated them into a dangerous, neo-Marxist ideology that claims to be ‘progressive’ but is more-or-less embodying the same wickedness as last century’s National Socialists, Italian Fascists, and cultural despots of the communist persuasion.

JK Rowling tried to warn children about Woke before Woke existed.

She tried to impart the lessons of our grandparents and great-grandparents into the minds of kids.

JK Rowling did not become a Culture Warrior when she decided to speak up for biological sex. She already gifted us a seven-book thesis on the dangers of Woke and its parallel to Nazism.

It is time we give her credit for this work and re-assess what are too often dismissed as ‘kids’ books about magic’. She is not only a children’s author, she is the heir to George Orwell’s legacy of freedom.

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