Marco Rubio's Supporters Have the Audacity to Compare Him to Beloved Wizard Harry Potter

On behalf of every Harry Potter fan in the world, the answer is "No."

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Marco Rubio, a man who appears to believe he is running for president, is totally just like Harry Potter, right? They're practically twins, aren't they? Of course not. However, petty little things such as facts haven't even remotely deterred some of Rubio's most fervent wealthiest supporters from making the comparison in a recent fundraising memo obtained by Politico and widely shared to the horror of Harry Potter enthusiasts all across the planet.

"The results in South Carolina were tremendously good for Marco Rubio," Warren Tompkins and Jon Lerner allegedly wrote in a memo circulated among members of a pro-Rubio super PAC. "This morning, the media speculation that Donald Trump is unstoppable, is flatly wrong." To place the Potterless intro firmly into context, Rubio lost to Trump in South Carolina by 10 percentage points. The memo then, in an effort to arouse Potter-level fandom, unwittingly pulls the work of J.K. Rowling into the Rubio praise-a-thon.

"As each horcrux was destroyed, Voldemort became increasingly vulnerable, not increasingly strong," the memo continues, positing Trump as Voldemort and Rubio as the young wizard. "When all of the horcruxes were gone, Voldemort lost his one-on-one battle with Harry Potter." To break that down even further, these people are pumping up Rubio to be some sort of Republican Harry Potter. Nope. Not gonna happen.

Rubio, a man who possibly thinks Canada is just a really big American city, should probably expect to receive some sort of a response from J.K. Rowling herself in the near future. After all, the blockbuster author is known to issue decisive tweets about Voldemort-mimicing Republicans and their growing army of Death Eaters.

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