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"Ask a Dog"
| Wednesday, April 05, 2006 |
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Harry Potter and the Plant of Power
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I have long wondered what is wrong with Harry Potter and his creator, J.K. Rowling. Having rejected the witchcraft angle, after much agonizing, on the grounds that Rowling herself is not a witch and denies any intent to allure the easily-corrupted young into some form of paganism; and having rejected worldliness on the grounds that if this were the issue then parents would surely have an issue with Nancy Drew, Sweet Valley Twins, and above all Christian Romance Fiction I was stumped.
Until, by some mysterious chance, an online book by Peter McWilliams provided the clue.
Commissioner Anslinger took quill in hand himself on occasion -- his prose as bad as his prohibitions. This, for example, from Hearst's American Magazine of July 1937:
An entire family was murdered by a youthful [marijuana] addict in Florida. When officers arrived at the home they found the youth staggering about in a human slaughterhouse. With an ax he had killed his father, mother, two brothers, and a sister.
He seemed to be in a daze.... He had no recollection of having committed the multiple crime. The officers knew him ordinarily as a sane, rather quiet young man; now he was pitifully crazed. They sought the reason. The boy said he had been in the habit of smoking something which youthful friends called "muggles," a childish name for marijuana.
(McWilliams, Peter. Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes In Our Free Country, Part III: "A Closer Look At The Consensual Crimes:" Drugs {http://www.mcwilliams.com/books/books/aint/303a.htm})
Did you catch it? That sinister reference at the bottom. I will quote it again, with emphasis added. "The boy said he had been in the habit of smoking something which youthful friends called "muggles," a childish name for marijuana."
Now what is the plot hinge of all the Harry Potter books? It is certainly not something obvious; love triumphing over dark magic; nor is it something relatively subtle, such as the need to trust Dumbledore even when all appearances shout that he is wrong. It is not even that justice must be done and vengeance accomplished. No, it is both more subtle and more sinister than that. You see, throughout the books the villains are "muggle" haters. Draco Malfoy will even call Hermione Granger a “mudblood” because both her parents are "muggles". Harry's mother was a "muggle" and he lives with "muggles". From He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named to the Black family to Lucius Malfoy and extending all the way back to Salazar Slytherin there is rejection of wizards who consort with "muggles" or have "muggle" blood. But what exactly do "muggles" stand for? From the above quote it is obvious that "muggle" is simply a type or symbol of marijuana. But then what has Ms. Rowling done (besides become fabulously wealthy)? It is clear that she has encouraged young people to smoke weed by presenting all marijuana (read "muggle") haters as bigots, arrogant, selfish and uncompassionate. But her deviousness does not stop even here. She stoops even lower to corrupt our youth, not with the demons of pentagrammatic rites, but with the evil spirit of cannabis. You see, one secret that both the Dark Lord (considered the most powerful wizard of all time by his followers) and Severus Snape (the Potions master who eventually slays Dumbledore) is that they had one "muggle" parent. At the end of book five Harry tells Bellatrix Lastrange this and she concludes it is a lie. At the end of book six Hermione discovers that Snape (obviously an extremely powerful wizard, since he succeeded in killing Dumbledore of whom even He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named harbors a certain fear) had a "muggle" mother. So that Harry (who is given power to equal the Dark Lord's), He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named himself, and Professor Snape, are all stronger than the average wizard, through their involvement (avowed or concealed) with weed. Hermione Granger is considered "the cleverest witch of her year" --both her parents are "muggles". The message that Rowling is sending here is that true power and true compassion and true friendship are all available from one source: smoking hemp.
I call upon all throughtful people everywhere to reject Harry Potter root and branch. Perhaps both McWilliams and Rowling are in the employ of the powerful hemp lobby --perhaps they are both closet cannabis users seeking social acceptance for their repulsive habit. But we must stand firm, united against them. This is perhaps the most powerful propaganda tool of our time. If Rowling succeeds in her scheme, what chaos might not be introduced? |
posted by Ruben @ 4/05/2006 05:28:00 PM   |
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