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...Voldemort gets a political grip on the wider wizarding society, Ron, Harry and Hermione spend more and more time in hiding, at Grimmauld Place and elsewhere, and their story takes on some of the claustrophobia of Anne Frank's diary. In fact, the parallels to World War II are near-explicit: the Death Eaters agitate for the rounding up of Muggle-born wizards and "race traitors" the same way Jews and their sympathizers were rounded up under the Third Reich. The Ministry of Magic comes to resemble The Ministry of Truth from 1984, complete with a pseudo-Fascist bureaucracy...
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