#Power_Politics

The discourse of Power and Politics in Harry Potter: How does Ministry of Magic control the resistance? How do they prosecute the ‘Other’?

In this novel Ministry of Magic plays very vital role as Power and Politics.

· This Ministry is hidden from Muggle world.

“Power is Everywhere”

· Discipline and Punishment.

· Prohibitions

· Single Gaze

· Ideal Prison

· Power and knowledge

· See – Seeable

· Surveillance

· Hierarchy of Power Structure

· Defying rules to gain knowledge

· Education as Ideological State Apparatuses

“Power is always in quest of controlling Education”

Sought in this discourse in Harry Potter Concept of purity of blood (race) is very much present in the Harry Potter. Establishing social order by master race is not a new idea. Killing other as inferior race is very prominent in the history.

Now the point is that what is attacked by J.K. Rowling in the Harry Potter? And what she finally wants to establish as a conclusion by the thesis- antithesis on race?

Protagonist- Harry Potter and Hermione Granger are Mud -blood. Ron Weasley is a pure blood. Draco Malfoy is also pure blood. Where as evil Voldemort is Mud Blood but craving for pure blood.

Rowling SUBVERTS the entire narrative by making protagonists who are mud bloods. And important thing is that they are equally or sometimes more powerful in magic than Pure blood. so, definitely it leads us to think that what should be criteria to judge the people - Race/ blood or merit?.

At the same time we have to keep in mind that Rowling is not despising Pure blood. Voldemort is evil and he is also mud blood. if writer make Voldemort as a pure blood, then definitely it is problematic.Witches and wizards consider themselves superior than non-magic people or non-human species like elves and giants. This act again shows racism working within the magical world.

It is a satire on Voldemort kind of people that idea of superior race is dangerous/ harmful. recent History has proved us that how dangerous it is.

many a times reference comes in the novel that , how pure blood were insulting mud bloods as inferior. And if we hear this kind of dialogue even today in and around us, then we've to be double careful.