8 Ways JK Rowling Could Continue The Harry Potter Series

3. Harry Potter And The Sociopolitical Upheaval

While they're known far and wide as a beloved children€™s book series, Harry Potter has been analysed from various academic standpoints€”most significantly, perhaps, from a social one. The series has been said to be an allegory of everything from racism and the Nazi regime to terrorism and many more besides. Rowling€™s portrayal of magical government, the Ministry of Magic, and their justice system is in truth, rather scathing at times, and so such comparisons are not as off-the-mark as one might think. For one thing, nobody who read The Order of the Phoenix didn€™t want to strangle Cornelius Fudge (the Minister for Magic) at least once or twice throughout the monolithic volume. Throughout the duration of the Second Wizarding War, the Ministry ran rampant with corruption, feeding lies to the public in order to maintain a facade of peace and control, going so far as to suppress the wizarding newspaper The Daily Prophet, and wrongfully imprisoning the innocent during the times of trouble in order to satisfy the citizens. Now, with Lord Voldemort out of way at the end of Deathly Hallows, it doesn€™t stand to reason that all of the problems with wizarding government would magically (heh) be fixed as well. So, as a sequel to the series, I propose something grittier than the Potter we€™re used to, focusing on these issues and a small group of wizarding revolutionaries seeking to right the wrongs done by their government in the past and who knows, even the seemingly perfect present. We know Rowling can do it too, what with her novel The Casual Vacancy being focused on social inequality in the (Muggle) United Kingdom. I€™m talking revolutionary house-elves! Angry young wizards spray-painting the stone walls of Hogwarts with words of rebellion against the elitist, corrupt system! A coalition of magical creatures fighting for their collective rights! Former wrongfully imprisoned Azkaban inmates picketing against the injustices done to them! Whether it would be thought-provoking, good fun, or painfully ridiculous however, is anybody€™s guess.