Harry Potter : A Marxist Interpretation via @pguilli
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And so we come to our heroes. The Gryffindors wear red Quidditch robes and represent the Red Army. Dumbledore, with his voluminous white beard, stands for #Karl_Marx; Hagrid is Engels, his faithful servant; while Harry Potter’s glasses and untidy black hair make him identical to Leon Trotsky. Harry’s lightning-bolt scar is in reference to the fatal head wound inflicted on Trotsky by Ramón Mercader with an ice pick. The two Orders of the Phoenix represent the First and Second Internationals.
Voldemort represents the modern consumer. His commodity fetishism is symbolised by the Horcruxes, “valuable” objects into which he projects parts of his soul. Possessions give him identity; destroying them shatters it, making him realise that he has not developed as a human being.