What's funny is JKR even kind of gestures to this brewing conflict with the opening to Book 6, The Other Minister The PM's sheer impotent rage and frustration and resentment at the situation a feckless idiot like Fudge has carelessly placed him and his people inhttps://twitter.com/Nymphomachy/status/1270410841733685249 …
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But that, too, never goes anywhere The Muggle government's helplessness is just taken for granted and even played for laughs, even after it's confirmed Voldemort has already committed at least one act of mass murder
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It's funny because a lot of people at the time zeroed in on how the PM in this chapter is strongly reminiscent of Tony Blair Just shrugging haplessly all "Whaddyagonnado" about letting George W. Bush drag him and the UK into a disastrous invasion of Iraq
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The profound national humiliation of the UK that they did that one part of Love Actually in response to Where PM Hugh Grant stands up to President Billy Bob Thornton saying the UK is a country with dignity that won't be pushed around anymore Citing the Harry Potter books
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But I guess it turned out that wasn't an intentional reference Because it turned out that JK Rowling is, in fact, Tony Blair's biggest fan Who knew
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