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I love it when Harry Potter intrudes onto my daily life
By: Eva Date: March 27, 2012, 10:42 pm
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I'm down here in the library doing research and what do I find?
A journal article by Australia's Chief Justice titled "Dolores
Umbridge and policy as legal magic"
[quote]There was a time a few years ago, when the High Court was
thought to have become a wellspring of new policy. But now there
are those who say that the magic has vanished. The spirit of
Dolores Umbridge, pink power dressed bureaucrat from the
Ministry of Magic, is said to rule over the land.1 Magic may be
read about in old books on the history of the common law but not
done. Dark magicians are said to bind us in the chains of dead
verbiage and drain the life force from the common law.
[Footnote] Dolores Umbridge is a character in Harry Potter and
the Order of the Phoenix. She is sent by the Ministry of Magic
to Hogwarts College to oversee and restrict the practice of
magic. She ends up being carried off in to the woods by a band
of unruly centaurs suitable metaphors for policy usually
referred to as an unruly horse.[/quote]
[quote].....It is no unruly horse, but rather a steady steed. In
a concluding application of the opening metaphor of policy as
magic – Dolores Umbridge has been carried off, not by the
anarchic forces of judicial disorder, but rather the guardians
of the law as we have known it for some centuries. [/quote]
My day actually just got so much better.
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Re: I love it when Harry Potter intrudes onto my daily life
By: StealYellowMen Date: March 27, 2012, 10:55 pm
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I love it when politicians and academics reference HP to make a
point. And Umbridge happens to be a great example/comparison.
Slightly related: today I read that an Israeli diplomat referred
to Israeli-Palestinian negotiations as "political quidditch" and
I couldn't help but laugh
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Re: I love it when Harry Potter intrudes onto my daily life
By: Eva Date: March 27, 2012, 11:28 pm
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It just proves how wide an application some of the stories from
HP really have, doesn't it?
Also, somewhat pathetically, knowing that certain
politicians/academics are fans makes them so much more admirable
in my eyes.
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Re: I love it when Harry Potter intrudes onto my daily life
By: Morse Date: March 28, 2012, 2:52 pm
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I love it!
HTML http://theweek.com/section/cartoon/47/217196/hollywood-blockbusters
Here's a Harry Potter political cartoon.
HTML http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2011/07/15/269989/the-political-lessons-of-harry-potter/?mobile=nc
An interesting article.
Harry Potter is applicable to contemporary politics, and that's
an aspect I love. :D
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