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"Alan Moore has cast Harry Potter as the antichrist in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 2009. The concluded part of his latest storyline uses a character based on JK Rowling&amp;#039;s lead to satirise the publishing industry.   &amp;quot;Though the words &amp;#039;Harry Potter&amp;#039; are never mentioned, the allusions are unmistakable,&amp;quot; said The Independent, which received an advanced copy of the book. &amp;quot;One section features a magical train hidden between platforms at King&amp;#039;s Cross station which leads to a magical school. The antichrist character has a hidden scar and a mentor named Riddle. (Lord Voldemort, born Tom Riddle, is Harry Potter&amp;#039;s arch enemy in the Potter series.) &amp;quot;Characters resembling both Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger also appear and, at one point, the Potter character kills someone with a lightning bolt from his flaccid penis.&amp;quot; The Independent&amp;#039;s reviewer Laura Sneddon was quick to defend the portrayal in the Kevin O&amp;#039;Neill illustrated book. &amp;quot;The headlines almost write themselves - &amp;#039;Alan Moore says Harry Potter is the antichrist!&amp;#039; - yet they miss the point,&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;When the antichrist is met, overgrown and high on anti-psychotics, raging at the education system that let him down and sounding peculiarly like Harry Enfield&amp;#039;s teenage Kevin, he is surely no stand-in for one particular character but of the current obsession for replacing stories with money-generating franchises. &amp;quot;Today, film rights are bought before publication, comics are written as storyboards, and teenage celebrities are given memoirs. What better representative of modern pop literature than JK Rowling&amp;#039;s boy wizard?&amp;quot; The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 2009 follows years 1910 and 1969, and will be released tomorrow (Wednesday June 20) by Top Shelf Productions. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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