The Wrath of Voldemort, HItler, and the Hutu Tribe

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The Wrath of Voldemort, Hitler, and the Hutu Tribe

“A researcher with the human rights watch found one predominantly Muslim town deserted and partially burned, its residents huddled at a makeshift camp” (Sengupta, Somini). This horrid scene was a result of the violence and hostility between races in the genocide in Rwanda. Genocide is a real life social issue that is also depicted in literature. In Harry Potter, a Daily Prophet article stated: “He has insisted for a year that You-Know-Who was not dead, as was widely hoped and believed, but recruiting followers once more for a fresh attempt to seize power” (Rowling 846). This quote states that Voldemort is once again forming an army to pursue his goal of the genocide of the Mud Bloods. Genocide is a social topic that is effectively portrayed throughout the Harry Potter series with connections to such real world examples as: the genocide in Rwanda and the Holocaust.

A Polish-Jewish lawyer, Raphael Lemkin, is the person known to have created the term genocide (United States Holocaust Museum). The word is derived from a Greek word, genos, meaning “race or tribe”, and a latin word, -cide, meaning killing (World Book Encyclopedia 2005). Genocide is “the deliberate and systematic mistreatment or extermination of a national, racial, political, religious, or cultural

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group” (World Book Encyclopedia 2005). This terrible treatment often comes from organized groups rather than individuals (World Book Encyclopedia 2005). There are several forms of genocide including: not allowing children of a certain group to be born, kidnapping the young children of a group to stop them from learning about their heritage, forcing people to live in conditions that do not support the physic...

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Works Cited

“Genocide.” The World Almanac and Book of Facts. 2013. 01 Jan. 2013: 746. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 11 Feb. 2014.

Sengupta, Somini. “A Spasm of violence in Africa conjures the ghosts of bosnia and Rwanda.” International New York Times. 11 Dec. 2013: 7. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 11 Feb. 2014

“What is Genocide?.” Holocaust Encyclopedia. United States Holocaust Museum, 10 June 2013. Web. 13 Feb. 2014.

Pranger, Robert J. “Genocide.” World Book Encyclopedia. Chicago: World Book, Inc., 2005. Print.

“Genocide in Rwanda.” United Human Rights Council. Armenian Youth Federation- Western United States, 2014. Web. 17 Feb. 2014.

Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. New York, NY. Scholastic Press, 2000. Print.

Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. New York, NY. Scholastic Press, 2005. Print.

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