Lilly HunterUrsula K.Le Guin saw right through JK Rowling early on. The "mean-spirited" description is so on target.
Here is the relevant excerpt from the Guardian interview from 2004.
Here is the relevant excerpt from the Guardian interview from 2004.
Doug Warren@LaChasseuse
Right. Rowling tried to identify her villains, House Slytherin, with the Nazis, but at the same time she invented a society whose citizens are all born inescapably into one of four eugenic castes, one of which was "Nazi". The irony is rich.