"Harry Potter may look like an intellectual with his glasses and his unruly hair, but once deconstructed he is only too clearly the hero of a political allegory for the triumph of the socially ascendant petite bourgeoisie. [...] Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw are the lower orders, hard-working but stupid. Slytherin represents the propertied-classes and Harry's house of Gryffindor is the ascendant class of the bourgeoisie. It is a shame that despite having studied in Paris, Miss Rowling failed to take critical theories of literature disseminated by higher education into account. She should instead have applied the ideas of such great French thinkers as the structuralist Roland Barthes and the unreconstructed Marxist sociologist Pierre Bourdieu to her work." -- Pierre Bruno