History and Harry Potter

Betsy's Page makes a link between history and Harry Potter.

Dumbledore is Churchill; Voldemort is Hitler; and Minister Fudge is Neville Chamberlain. In this period of time when there are people who don't want to take the fight to the terrorists or deny that Saddam Hussein had anything to do with terrorism or are afraid that we're going to make North Korea or Iran angry at us if we tell the truth about their governments, it was very intriguing to read Book 5 in the summer of 2003.