# It Sure Looks Like the Department of Education Is Promoting a Right-Wing ‘Harry Potter’ Meme

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/it-sure-looks-like-the-department-of-education-is-promoting-a-right-wing-harry-potter-meme/
- Published: 2026-10-30T10:15:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-30T11:27:42+00:00
- Original publisher: Wired
- Original article: https://www.wired.com/story/it-sure-looks-like-the-department-of-education-is-promoting-a-right-wing-harry-potter-meme/
- Topics: Art, Culture, Trending, Weird & Viral

## Key points

- A Department of Education post drew comparisons to a far-right Harry Potter meme.
- The Malfoid figure can package extremist ideas in fantasy imagery.
- The department continued its campaign with other fantasy references.

## Summary

The US Department of Education posted “There’s Magic in Learning!” and “Make Education Great Again” alongside an image of students approaching a castle and a blonde girl. Online commentators said the image resembled the “Malfoid” meme, a far-right internet aesthetic based on a gender-swapped Draco Malfoy, raising questions about how government agencies use online culture to communicate.

The article says Malfoid fan fiction often romanticises the character’s blood-purity bigotry and presents her as anti-queer and anti-trans. Far-right meme channels have used the figure to package ethno-nationalist and conservative ideas in familiar, shareable fantasy imagery. The Education Department continued its “There is Magic in Learning” posts with references to *The Lord of the Rings* and *Avatar: The Last Airbender*; a Baylor communications professor described the merging of internet subcultures and mainstream institutions as a defining feature of modern politics.

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