I just had the most awesome idea for a Marxist essay about ideology and Harry Potter– analyzing the way in which the Black family failed to reproduce the pureblood ideology in Sirius Black, or the way in which Sirius refused the hail for him to accept the ideology of his family.
And I could extend it to Draco Malfoy, who by all intents and purposes is responding to the hail that Lucius has given him, and has adopted the Death Eater ideology.
And extend it even more, to Harry responding to the hail of the Sorting Hat in calling him a Gryffindor. . .
DUDE. THE SORTING HAT IS REPRODUCING THE IDEOLOGY OF EACH HOUSE BY HAILING ELEVEN YEAR OLDS. And then the House competition is continuing to reproduce the ideology by continually identifying each student with their House, and training them to value the thing that they were told they valued by being sorted in the first place. . .
*hubs hands evilly*