Just your usual reminder Just Kidding Rowling is a horrible TERF.
And those are the old reasons I alluded to in the title. Fuck her. I hope her bidet transmogrifies so it randomly starts firing staples.
Holy fuck!
Edit: I mean that in a, “That’s extremely specific, and one I haven’t heard before!” kind of way. Just to clarify. Rowling can EABOD.
I love how easily I parsed EABOD, despite not having seen it before
lmfao same
Reminds me of this
Reading the books you realize that there is no OSHA in the Wizarding world
“You three children have detention! Go spend a night in the forest of child-eating spiders!”
JK Rowling literally wrote a slave caste that loves being in servitude. Even putting aside the transphobia of her most recent past, the Harry Potter books are not leftist friendly.
Ok, I hate that you are putting me in a position where I have to defend her TERFy ass but this is not a valid criticism.
The House Elves(the eponymous slaves you were referring to) were not in any way framed as a good thing. She went out of her way to make it abundantly clear that to any modern sensibility such a class system is abhorrent. You can have unsavory elements in your work of fiction as a vehicle for your characters’ story arc and not be a piece of shit for it.
However, if you’re a fucking TERF shitstain on Twitter, that’s an entirely different kettle if fish and absolutely feel free to light her ass up on that. That and being coy about Dumbledore being gay. Should have been in the books and not implied only to be confirmed online. Absolute bullshit.
The less said about the bank goblins, the better.
This actually is a valid critique of the books and especially the films but honestly I don’t think she was consciously targeting anyone intentionally. Though whether or not there was a subconscious component to her decision to describe the bank goblins the way she did is very worth debating.
I have half past four.
The concept of a species of intelligent creature that is naturally inclined to servitude and loves it is actually a very interesting concept. There’s nothing wrong with exploring such a concept in a fictional setting.
Not that they were really explored in the Harry Potter books, but I could certainly see such an exploration being fascinating, since it is wrong to enslave a people and it is wrong to prevent them from doing what makes them happy and fulfilled…which happens to be serving.
Could have guessed that from the “isn’t the traditional British schooling system just the best?” overarching plot line.
I think it’s closer to an fbi type but yeah
Harry was billed in early books as this “Anti-Voldemort”, who’d lead Wizardy to a gilded age and do great things… But JK Is a Status Quo loving Neo Liberal and can’t imagine a better world. In all of her works the system is corrupt, but it’s fine because the only thing that would make it go wrong is one bad faith actor (In this case Voldemort), who will stumble upon some obscure rule that undoes him. (In this case, killing Harry who was at that time the last horcrux)
Harry becomes a cop and doesn’t change the status quo because the world as it is is the best JK can imagine it.
It’s kind of like how no one did anything about Trump, they kept waiting for him to trip over some rule that sends the system crashing down on him, but it never happened.
It never happened because the system is powerless to punish anyone, because the system is just an idea, it is immaterial.
The Electoral College isn’t going to magically vote for Hillary because it recognizes Trump’s evil. People have to recognize his corruption and change the system to combat it…
The Democrats never learned they couldn’t just wait for the System to punish the Republicans after they accumulated enough good/bad boy points
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To be fair aurors seem to be doing the job of detectives/cops/militia/commanding officers/military police/federal agents/CIs/Deputies/Marshals/Troopers/ Dementor management/whatever
It’s not just a cop. Besides the guys seem to be paid decently enough and deal with the most nastiest of the nastiest shit in the magical world. It’s a miracle people decide to do it, given the mortality rates it seems to have and the kind of bullshit they need to deal with
Are we really going to sit here, having this discussion as if Harry Potter is a real man?
He grown up to be Cormorant Snuggle or whatever his name is?
All wizards are bad
Yeah, it’s Harry Potter. Social change is the enemy in the book. At no point does anyone try to improve anything in the book. They don’t even oppose evil that much. They just oppose it when the existing evil tries to go too far by the current standards of evil.
I far as I know, Daniel Radcliffe never started in a cop flick but he did portray something close though.
aurors aren’t cops
An Auror was a wizard or witch that worked as a highly trained law enforcement official for a wizarding governing body
Oi! Youse gotta license fer dat wand?
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