Power & Politics Foucaldian : Reading of Harry Potter

Harry Potter is simply not a popular Children literature but from very beginning to end deeply pondering upon system like magic ministry and Hogwarts itself an education system possess power and in variety of Minor scenes where we can apply Foucauldian lens to see power play and politics. But where are the politics? At the most specific levels Rowling provides the readers with a outline of a political system: the ministry of magic. This parallel political system is kept secret from the ―non magical people the ―muggles. The ministry of magic is the law making body in Harry‘s wizarding world. Its main job is to keep the whole world of magic a secret from the muggles eye.

Harry Potter presents at multiple levels the different manifestations of power. There is the struggle between power and ethics showed through the war between the death eaters and the wizarding community. There are other structures of power like the headmaster Dumbledore and professors like Snape, Umbridge enforcing disciplinary methods like detention and other punishments.

“Power is everywhere, not because it embraces everything but because it comes from everywhere. And power insofar is repetitious, inert and self-reproducing…power is not an institution, not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with it; it is the name of a complex strategical situation in a particular society.” Bhattacharya.

The ministry of magic is the law making body in Harry‘s wizarding world. Its main job is to keep the whole world of magic a secret from the muggles eye. In the Goblet of fire we can see how media takes place of power. Newspaper and press play vital role in the whole series. Insider how cheat to the one who is power it's also significant. Banning of so many things in Hogwarts confronts the reality of society, how power takes decision of banning something. However, Rowling confronting reality through Fantasy, click here to visit my blog on Confronting reality through Fantasy.

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Bhattacharya, Paramita. Harry Potter through the Foucauldian lens: Exploring beyond the fantasy fiction:The magical world in new dimension. 15 February 2018

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