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![Book 7: Harold Pinter and the Deathly Sanctions
The final revolution. Voldemort’s regime has taken complete control of the state apparatus. Harold, Ron, and Hermione refuse to go on a mystical treasure hunt for Horcruxes; instead, they target Voldemort’s supply chains and offshore vaults.
The Battle of Hogwarts is less a magical duel and more a prolonged, claustrophobic standoff in a dimly lit room.
Voldemort: You have nothing left, Harold. The state is mine.
Harold: [He takes a slow sip of room-temperature whisky.] Is it?
Voldemort: Yes.
Harold: [Pause.] Interesting.
Voldemort: Why is it interesting?
Harold: [Longer pause.] Because the workers have just seized the Ministry’s heating grid. You’re shivering, Tom.
Voldemort realises his systemic power has evaporated. He simply fades away into the dark, crushed by the unbearable weight of his own obsolescence. The curtain falls.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ijiixg3k6fbnvu4pxyay33ez/bafkreiglr24o4uhnsqfuvgcq5m7vb44pu2tiw7acp53whym2hymzxd7pi4)
![Book 1: Harold Pinter and the Proletariat’s Stone
Harold is an orphan living in a suffocating, bourgeois cupboard under the stairs in Surrey. On his eleventh birthday, a towering, bearded man named Hagrid breaks down the door.
Hagrid: Yer a socialist, Harold.
Harold: [Long pause.] Am I?
Hagrid: And a playwright.
Harold: I see. [He lights a cigarette.] I don’t believe in magic. I believe in the collective bargaining power of the working class.
Harold travels to Hogwarts, an ancient, crumbling elite institution heavily subsidised by invisible labour. He is sorted into Gryffindor, though he spends most of his time critiquing the House Elf exploitation and refusing to participate in Quidditch, which he identifies as a gladiatorial distraction to pacify the student masses. He ultimately secures the Stone to prevent the hoarding of immortal capital by the ruling class.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ijiixg3k6fbnvu4pxyay33ez/bafkreidx6au5hgh2erku44ncyyc7los56cpsfm7a5d4v22fwkxbms4v7tm)
