Several viewers made the comparison on Twitter, Albus Dumbledore having famously said in the Harry Potter series: “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends.”
“It takes great bravery to stand up to your enemies, it takes even more bravery to stand up to your friends,” he said.
Wise words, but have we not heard them before, in the Great Hall no less?
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Prisons, Probation, Rehabilitation and Sentencing (a verbose title JK Rowling herself would be literarily proud of) Sam Gyimah made an emphatic statement about Theresa May’s castigation of Donald Trump’s recent Islamophobic tweets on BBC Question Time last night.