Are There ‘Eerie Links’ Between ‘Harry Potter’ Films & Osama bin Laden?
- Posted on May 3, 2011 at 9:35am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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Are you a Harry Potter fan? Looking forward to seeing the next installment, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2″ in July?Well, if you follow the news, you might have just gotten a preview without knowing it.
A report from Reuters says that there are “eerie” similarities between the Harry Potter series and fight against al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. The outlet explains:
It set up the ongoing conflict between Harry, the young, orphaned wizard, who gradually discovers his powers, and the malignant force of evil, Lord Voldemort, who is bent on destroying him. First referred to only as “He Who Must Not Be Named,” Voldemort is introduced as something of a formless boogie-man — not unlike the mysterious Osama — but then, over the course of the series, takes on more and more of a physical presence until in the last volume he and Harry go head-to-head in a final, cataclysmic battle.
For a generation of kids who grew up reading Rowling‘s books and watching Hollywood’s big-screen adaptations in the shadows of 9/11, there have been inevitable echoes of the real world in Harry’s sometimes reluctant quest to defeat Voldemort.
Back in 2004, a poster on mugglenet.com made some of it explicit, comparing the Death Eaters to Al Queda and noting of that “just as Voldemort was shaped by his mother‘s death and his father’s abandonment, Osama was shaped by his personal struggle between Western pleasures and Islamic discipline.”
And just as Harry is known in the books as “the anointed one,” a number of President Obama’s critics like Rush Limbaugh have frequently dismissed the president by disparagingly referring to him as “the anointed one” as well — though on Monday, even Limbaugh had praise for how Obama orchestrated Osama’s demise.
Mild spoiler ahead, so stop reading if you don’t know the outcome of the final book…
Meanwhile, in the wake of bin Laden’s death in a mansion near Islamabad, a meme has already popped up on the web, noting the weird coincidence that Osama and Voldemort both died on the same day, May 1. But true Potter fans have been quick to point out that’s not quite true: When Harry and Voldemort actually finally come face-to-face in the Battle of Hogwarts, in the books’ chronology the date is really May 2, 1998.
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Comments (96)
TheGreyPiper
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 12:27pmPlease, let’s not feed the trolls; even R/E. It’s like feeding park pigeons, it only encourages and emboldens them. And then they still circle back and shht on your head.
Report Post »hidden_lion
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 12:15pmRose-Ellen you don’t deserve to live in this country, get out you nasty traitor. You must be related to Jane Fonda, hag.
Report Post »JOshewa
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 12:08pmI am starting to feel as if I have outgrown this site.
Report Post »reino71
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 12:06pmI finally realize why this site is called the Blaze. It is destined to flame out due to the amount of irrelevant news items.
Report Post »conservativewoman
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 11:45am@ Rose Ellen
Report Post »Your post is pretty harsh. I am curious about your background and family life. That anger of yours is going in more directions than just posting on the Blaze, isn’t it?
GiGi80
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 11:30am” Are There ‘Eerie Links’ Between ‘Harry Potter’ Films & Osama bin Laden?”
Are you insane?
Report Post »cranberry
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 11:26amCan we please not do this? Come on, Harry Potter books and movies are wonderful, let’s not spoil them by comparing fantasy to an evil real-life idiot who actually killed people. They are just plain sick!
Report Post »TheGreyPiper
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 12:30pmWell, there is a deliberate and definite good/evil vibe going on in HP.
Report Post »outpost13
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 11:07amThey both suck and have no life ?
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 11:27amBingo! We have a winner.
Report Post »JD2020
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 11:05amAnyone else notice since Betsy Morgan, The Huffington Post’s former CEO, took over the Blaze we are seeing more garbage like this?
I can only think that this is supposed to be reaching younger generations? I am a Harry Potter fan and this is just out there, way out there.
Report Post »OLDBIKEFIXER
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 10:45amStop. Right now. We’re discussing “Harry Potter” on The Blaze?!? Just stop. Put your jammies on and go back to bed.
Report Post »LastCallForEmpathy
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 10:40amJ K is an automatic writer, and is well aware of the occult imagery she is feeding the kiddies…
Report Post »G M Martin
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 12:20pmWhat is an “automatic writer”?
Report Post »LastCallForEmpathy
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 10:36amWell done…
Sadly no amount of historical reference will wake up the most of the lambs…
Report Post »That is until the man upstairs gives the ok…
Karama
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 10:32amI thought Harry Potter was more of a WW II Nazi ref myself. You can almost see how Hitler and Vol de Morte took similar paths to power. Gathering followers with cult like charisma, especially in wealthy and political areas, then using them to infiltrate the government and then take it over from the inside.
I have always thought Harry Potter was a bit deeper than what some people want to make it out to be.
Report Post »Karama
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 10:28amNow that you mention it I do see Alister Crowley in Vol de Morte. Good eye. Crowley was after similar things.
Report Post »Bhaub
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 2:34pmDid you actually spell it that way because you’re worried about a fictional character coming to life and getting you? You’re as bad as the people who believe in Candlejack or something. I’ll never understand why the Blaz
Report Post »Whiskey One Seven
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 10:18amWhy did this make it on the Blaze?…
Report Post »let us prey
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 10:31amGood question.
Report Post »Predator
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 11:09amBecuase someone got really really bored, or it is a really really slow news day, or someone is just dumb.
Report Post »let us prey
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 10:02amRefuse to read or see any of this garbage. Id like to see the orphaned wizard boy get his clock cleaned by a MOAB. Id pay to see that.
Report Post »TRUTH
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 3:36pmWhy is it garbage?
Report Post »Predator
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 10:02amIs this for real?
Report Post »Is it April Fools?
Well in the case of Harry Potter it is this, but if you change everything around you can equate it to Bin Laden.
Please.
Quick, someone call J.K Rowling and ask her what happens next.
Potter has a kid? Oh no, the son of some Al Queda operative will blow something up…….CONNECTION!
TheBees
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 9:55amThe movie promoting whichcraft anf the fight against Al Queda has one glaring difference. HARRY POTTER IS FICTION AND THE FIGHT AGAINST AL QUEDA IS THE REAL WORLD WHERE PEOPLE REALLY DIE!!!!!!
Report Post »PavZilla
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 9:53amCrap sammiches, lost my place. I was reading Deathly Hallows backwards to see if it was the Koran.
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 10:18amI keep playing the Beatles “I’m So Tired” backward, but Paul is still not dead.
Report Post »MontanaRob
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 3:03pmI keep seeing reality being played bass-ackwards, it’s called…Earth 2011, the Obummer administration, progressives, socialists, marxists, communists, Islamists, the mentally defective,…yeah, I know, they are all redundant! Funny that!
Report Post »Sinista MACE
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 9:50amMan, omg.
Where does the stupid speculations stop and reality take it’s rightful place…
They are deliberately putting forth these ridiculous abstract connections in order to create an air of conspiracy that obfuscates the truth and tries to implant the feasibility and false reality of this charade as an actual occurence in our minds. They are assuming that this is a foregone conclusion and that there aren’t more questions than answers when the damn body is missing, conveniently “disposed of” before anybody can corroborate anything.
I have your card.
Report Post »smak
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 10:39amWhat the hell?
Report Post »Sinista MACE
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 10:51amSMAK
You seem to be confused about a lot of things lately.
Is all you can say is “Huh?“ and ”What the hell”?
Is that the extent of your vocabulary?
Report Post »Sinista MACE
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 10:52amIf you can’t form a coherent thought, then don’t bother responding.
Report Post »smak
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 11:16am@They are deliberately putting forth these ridiculous abstract connections in order to create an air of conspiracy that obfuscates the truth and tries to implant the feasibility and false reality of this charade as an actual occurence in our minds.
Coherent?
Report Post »smak
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 11:22am@Is all you can say is “Huh?“ and ”What the hell”?
You sound like a pretentious college professor.
Report Post »riseandshine
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 11:26amRemember Mace….you’re one of the bad guys…I am too….It‘s amazing isn’t it?….when all is required is a little bit of research, to know that 9/11 was a con job on a grand scale……” but we saw the jets hit the buildings…how can you say that they were brought down by controlled demolition?”…… I bought the whole Bin Laden thing for years too…….here it comes. ridicule and attack coming my way…..But I know for the most part, the people here are good decent people who love their country….as do I.
Report Post »smak
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 6:15pmYou sound like a pretentious college professor.
Report Post »Sinista MACE
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 9:18amahahahah!!
I made the Blaze censor me for dumbing down my comments so SMAK could understand.
Ahahahaa
I think Beck got mad because he has a retarded child.
AHAHAHAA
Report Post »Sinista MACE
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 9:20amWhat part of the english language do you not understand, SMAK?
What part is incoherent?
Are you having a hard time following a train of thought? Pronounciation? Sentence Structure? Vernacular?
Report Post »Sinista MACE
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 2:49pmahhaah they censored r3t4rded
ahahahahaa
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 9:48amThey used to say Lord of the Rings written as a metaphor for WWII. I can see that. This one? Not so much.
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 9:56amI thought that was “Hogan’s Heroes”. Or “Rat Patrol”. Or “Twelve O’Clock High.“ Or ”Combat”
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 10:37amMetaphor Ted, metaphor.
Report Post »teachermitch32
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 11:14amI see more of a truthful correlation between what is going on now in the US under the POSTUS with Atlas Shrugged (or flinched).
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 11:26amI met a four, but only two accompanied me.
Report Post »kevtheatheist
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 12:35pm“Lord of the Rings” and the “Narnia” series are both based on experiences in WWI. Tolkien and Lewis were both vets of WWI and were members of a writers club.
Report Post »ozchambers
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 9:47amyou gotta be kidding me
Report Post »BonnieBlueFlag
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 11:20pmWorst. Copy. Ever. (This “article”)
Report Post »MySacredHonor
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 9:44amAre we really even talking about this… its pure good verses evil… in that way yes they are the same.. but no other!
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 9:59amAmerica is as murderous as Osama was.The american military is guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity and if their were true justice there would be tribunals for americans.What Osama did was evil but what america has done not only in Muslim countries but in other countries [viet nam] is also evil.His actions were not more evil then the americans policys of torture and mass murders abroad.Two wrongs don’t make a right but this fantasy of good versus evil is propaganda.What he did was evil but he did one good thing-he stood to the american terrorists and gave them a 9 year run for their money. and shook up the complacent americans who believd there would never be a cost for their murderous actions abroad.He changed that balance of power even if briefly.
Report Post »NSDQ
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 10:27amDear Rose-Ellen feel free to renounce your US citizenship and move to the sharia compliant country of your choice.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 10:39amrose-ellen
Report Post »So, you work for the White House?
OLDBIKEFIXER
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 10:42am“Rose-Ellen”? Hmmm… that doesn’t sound like a Muslim name to me. Perhaps you, like Obama, were born here, carted off to a Muslim country while still young and impressionable, then brought back to America to try to bestow your new-found beliefs on other Americans?
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 10:56am@ rose-ellen
I can tell from your comment on this, that your head is fill with things a dog would not eat and a cat would want to cover up. Some where in your past life some one filled your head with buzzard vomit and PIG SQUIRT!
Report Post »Dale
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 11:05amrose-ellen;
Report Post »“The american military is guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity and if their were true justice there would be tribunals for americans.”
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The military is not ‘guilty’. Civilian leadership, including your pal, are culpable if any guilt ensues – with the exception of occasional individuals not representing our fine fighting force.
teddrunk
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 11:25amSo the name is really “Tokyo” Rose-Ellen
Report Post »Timbotim
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 1:31pmRose-Ellen: Until you agree to undergo a lobotomy (only way you’ll forget how to read, I’m told), a clitorectomy, and wear a sheet head-to-toe, SHUT YOUR PIEHOLE! Remember: America doesn’t start wars, we end them. And we‘re the only country in modern history that doesn’t take war spoils, we build the invaded country up (see Germany, Italy, Japan, the Balkans…need I continue?). It really mystifies me how woolyheaded you ninnyhammers on the Left are.
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 3:09pmAmericans seem to believe as long as they use the word freedom or democracy in a sentence about dropping bombs on people it doesn’t matter how many arms and legs are blown off of men women and children.Osama undersood that about you murderous hypocrites and one day your chickens came home to roost.As Rev. Wright said [a great american] you never batted an eye when you were commiting mass murder .Osama changed that and forever will be remembered as the man who succeeded in letting you know what its like to be victims of war for once.Two wrongs don’t make a right but hey the world was sick of your committing mass murder in the world with impunity.The mellenium was ushered in by Osama ,the century of the people where all people can act and even being a superpower does not make you immune from reaping what you sow.Osama died valiently and lived a full life with women and children in his life.He was more authentic then these american mass murderers who now have to watch what they say in the media [you cannot call for genocide of Muslims even on Fox] but only on your blogs.You live a sccizophrenic existence-harboring genocidal hatred of Muslims but not being able to say it publicaly so saying everything else instead.Osama said what he meant and believed-that america was unjust towards Arabs and our policies toward Muslims was unjust.He was authentic -though he too was a mass murderer-which is something none of you are or dare to be.
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 9:44amThe link between the movie and Bin Laden, is both were worthless to society.
Report Post »Creestof
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 9:42amYes there is a link….
Oh, and with the number 23 also.
Sheeesh!
Report Post »/facepalm
MidWestMom
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 9:47amNow that’s a pertinent topic (rolls eyes)….
Report Post »right-wing-waco
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 10:09amBin Laden did not die on May 1, if I heard the news correctly. I think FOX news reported that he was killed about 2 weeks ago but Obama did not want to tell until the DNA test came back. Anyone else hear this information?
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 10:14amCreestof, you fool *sneering*!
The number is 42 *shakes head while walking away*.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 10:50amstated yesterday…
Report Post »See the Tense Faces Inside White House Situation Room as the Raid Went Down
banjarmon
Posted on May 2, 2011 at 10:40pm
Are you sure they were not watching a Harry Potter movie???
GEW
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 11:59amThis is so farrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr out I want to scream.
Report Post »Give it break. Its a story…make believe. What is wrong with you guys!
Sheeeesh is right!!!!
Mannax
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 12:06pmhttp://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wlMfvlAAjWE/THFZ9s7KAQI/AAAAAAAAAAw/YdBKM0JwC6c/s1600/Facepalm.jpg
This says it all.
Report Post »forestnomad
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 12:19pmHoly sht, Glenn Beck is nuts.
Report Post »MuskratProblem
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 12:20pmOh gosh…
*facepalm*
Report Post »MASTER YODA
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 12:59pmLike movies while obama and the demoncrats destroy our great country lets keep talking about meaning less things. Pointed his desk toward mecca, I heard that obuma has. Yeesssssss.
Report Post »wildjoker5
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 1:55pmI see it more as Voldimort as Hitler. Ashamed of his “half breed” status, so goes off and gets the government (Nazis) to “clense” the world of the “mudbloods”. Just the hero is a kind of different take on who defeats to Evil.
Report Post »theonefromabove
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 1:57pmI see very slight links.
http://politicalbowl.com – Political Videos
Report Post »orkydorky
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 2:03pmThis is to Jon Seidl…………………………………………………Your posts, or at least two of them are of no real value and really off the wall. May I give you some advice, write and post something that is news worthy!
Report Post »You must know BO is doing something to destroy our nation behind our backs that is important to know, but not the dribble in some of your posts. Don’t waste my time!
TRUTH
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 3:26pmOrkyDorky
I agree and I’ve been saying this for a while, Seidl’s stories are pretty off the wall.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 5:08pm@right-wing-waco
Report Post »Posted on May 3, 2011 at 10:09am
Bin Laden did not die on May 1, if I heard the news correctly. I think FOX news reported that he was killed about 2 weeks ago but Obama did not want to tell until the DNA test came back. Anyone else hear this information?
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I remember hearing “about a week ago” and was very surprised when they had their DNA results in a couple of hours!
obama-mecca-me-sick
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 8:39pm@RIGHTWING
Report Post »Yes, I heard it- the initial report Sunday night was – killed a week ago- waiting for DNA match.
That might have even come from the Blaze and after this STUPID Harry Potter story , I’m losing confidence in the Blaze
(Especially because they delete alot of comments or never post them.)
OBAMA Bin Lying – again
WriteRepublic
Posted on May 3, 2011 at 9:39pmAs a Harry Potter fan, I find this to be ridiculous. Yeah, there might be some connection, but really?! Probably just a MAJOR coincidence, nothing else. This is really, really, low for The Blaze.
In most books people see connections between events in real-life and the time period it takes place in. It’s not uncommon. I wouldn’t be surprised if J.K. Rowling wrote in a few ties to Al-Queda, but this really is just a stupid article. Harry Potter and Bin Laden ties–it’s more hilarious than anything else–but stupid.
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