JR Rowling recently commented on an article that she praised because it showed that the Reading Harry Potter books reduces Americans' positive views of Donald Trump.
The author of this famous saga has commented on numerous occasions her feelings towards Donald Trump. In fact, in June he wrote in a public letter that the presidential candidate was "fascist in all but name."
“His chubby fingers are currently horrifyingly close to America's nuclear codes. He shelved this pre-eminence by proposing crude, impractical solutions to complex threats. ¿Terrorism? "All Muslims forbidden!" Immigration? "Build a wall!""
“He has the temperament of an unstable nightclub, mocks violence and carries his disdain for women and minorities with pride. God help America. God help us. "
This weekend was when Rowling pointed out on Twitter the study on whether the literature of the books of Harry Potter influences Americans' attitudes about Donald Trump. In the link of the tweet that I put below you can access the study.
So anyway, this has made my day.https://t.co/mJSCdHLVPz
- JK Rowling (@jk_rowling) August 19st, 2016
In the survey it emerged that Democrats, Republicans, and Independents had read the Harry Potter books. It was also discovered that every book they had read in the Harry Potter saga had lowered their positive feelings about Donald Trump by two or three points on a 100-point scale.
"This may be small, however, for someone who has read all seven books, the total impact could lower their estimate of Trump by 18 points out of a total of 100."
Mutz also commented that even taking into account the gender of the person, their education and age, they all used to coincide, maintaining the effect that Harry Potter had on people.
Mutz also performs comparisons between Donald Trump and the villain of the Harry Potter series, Voldemort. It seems that the term Trumpdemort is beginning to prevail more and more.
“Even Trump supporters… Buying on the analogy, Trump's posters for his candidacy in front of the American flag as a backdrop, with a quote from the Dark Lord:“ There is no good or evil, there is only power. , and those who are too weak to seek it "
The teacher points out similarities between the fictional character and the presidential candidate, including how Voldemort “supports the eradication of mixed blood wizards” and as “in comparison, Donald Trump has called for a temporary moratorium on Muslim immigration."
"It may just be too difficult for Harry Potter readers to ignore the similarities between Trump and power-hungry Voldemort"
Muzt also found that, on the contrary, movies based on the Harry Potter books did not stimulate opposition to the presidential candidate. She believes that this may be because reading requires much higher levels of attention than movies and that this allows for a greater nuance of the characters, many of them being neither completely good nor completely bad.
"Due to the length, films must leave out some of the material from books and are more likely to emphasize action over dilemmas."
"These results raise the hope that Harry Potter can stop the deadly Donald Trump and make America great in the eyes of the world just as Harry did to rid the world of Voldemort's wizards."
Throughout the series, love and kindness consistently triumph over aggression and prejudice. It is a powerful, positive theme and therefore it is not surprising that readers understand the underlying message of this story and move with it. These pro-unity views come strongly and clearly in history and have also been publicly expressed by the author, JK Rowling, who has embraced anti-Brexit and anti-Trump political views. Harry Potter's popularity around the world is about to make a difference not only in the US election, but also in elections across Europe that involve aggressive and dominant candidates around the world."