Disclaimer: Its just for laughs folks! And yeah, I have absolutely no rights over Harry Potter, I am just borrowing him from Rowling (without taking permission, of course) to serve my nefarious purposes. I hope she has a large heart. :D
The Power Of Propaganda
He stood at the edge of the cliff looking
down at the great abyss before him with a sad smile on his face. The greatest
Dark Lord the world had ever known ready to jump to his death. That Skeeter
woman would die out of sheer excitement if she got wind of this...How did it
come to this you may ask...
Well, it all started one evening at that
godforsaken place called the Gryffindor Common Room, a place where young kids
with no particular mental faculties or physical strength for that matter,
plotted against and influenced the seats of power in the Wizarding world at the
end of the day’s lessons. A place where grand complicated schemes were hatched
to keep him away from absolute power over the wizarding world.
It was one such day...
The trio sat in their usual chairs near the
fireplace.
Since, Harry Potter had told her of the
prophesy, Hermione Granger, the brainy maniac girl had been searching for ways to help her friend
vanquish the Dark Lord while Ron Weasly, the mentally deficient but otherwise
loyal friend indulged in a game of Wizard Chess with The Boy Who Lived.
"The Power He Knows NOT! Now, we all
know that You Know Who is an expert at absolutely everything even remotely
related to magic, then such a power needs to be unconventional like something
from the muggle world." lectured Hermione, more to herself than to the
others.
"It is not necessary that he knows
everything related to magic, Hermione. He only understands evil, dark things. I
think, we need the power of Love to kill him once and for all. Remember, that’s
what Dumbledore told me in our First year", countered Harry passionately.
"Grow up Harry! Are you going to spike
his drink with a love potion and try kissing him?, There are no such things like
Love or Hate magic. she said sarcastically.
"Actually that could work" said
Ron sincerely.
Hermione silenced Ron with a glare.
“I was going through the muggle newspapers
and something just caught my eye. I think I know just the power. The Power of Media
Propaganda."
“Do you know the reason for Voldemort's
success and why nobody until now has been able to defeat him?”, questioned Hermione as if expecting some brilliant insight from the two chimps.
"He is immortal and very powerful?”
asked Harry.
“Not to mention extremely scary”, added Ron.
“No. It is because a large chunk of the Wizarding
population, though afraid of him still roots for his cause. Even with all of
his tremendous power he couldn't have achieved such distinction if he did not
have people who believed in his ideology. By making the pure bloods who form a
significant portion of the Wizarding population feel victimized, he provides
them with a cause that they identify with and which makes them rally around
him.
"So, what do we do", asked Harry.
"We need to spread false propaganda against
him, that will make his supporters detest him."
"Now, we know for a fact that Voldemort is a
half blood, so he does have a muggle connection, a fact not widely known or
talked about. If we are able to resurrect his muggle lineage and show him as
sympathetic towards muggles, he would be exposed as a bigot, and his supporters
will begin to desert him", lectured Hermione.
“But how shall we connect him to the muggle
world? He hates muggles!”, countered Ron.
"We don't need just any muggle. We need the most controversial one. I was just going through some muggle
newspapers when I got this idea, though it is pretty complex. There is a muggle
politician in India who is an extremely divisive figure. Anyone who has ever been associated with him is trashed by the media and loses his credibility
overnight. Now if we want to discredit You Know Who, we need to do it in a
grand way. If we can somehow associate You Know Who with Narendra Modi, we might get the
Wizarding media to rally against You know who", answered Hermione.
"Okay, Hermione, but how do we do it. What
person in his right mind would want to associate with such an evil. How will we
even contact him?", asked Harry.
Hmmm...
After half an hour, the girl came back with
a wide grin.
"MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! I secured an
appointment with him; we are going to meet him next week. I just mailed his office from
the Muggle Studies laboratory and told him that we are a business delegation
from Great Britain and wanted to invest in his state", she said happily.
Read on...(The Boy Who Lived meets Narendra Modi)
