The internet is already exploding about Katherine Parkinson, John Lithgow and Paapa Essiedu signing up to the new Hogwarts adventures – and it hasn’t even started filming
house elves are a literally and explicitly a chattel slave race.
the sole character who goes “hey slavery bad” and tries to do something about it (Hermione) is made out to be an ass for bothering to advocate for them, both by the other characters and the narration itself.
the one house elf who even wants freedom (Dobby) is made out to be a crazy person for it.
THE “HERO” (Harry) INHERITS AND KEEPS A SLAVE (Kreecher).
and it’s supposed to be fine because “see they like being slaves, it’s what’s best for them”. which is literally what u.s. slave owners used to tell themselves, that it was morally right and good for the slaves.
Harry Potter is absolutely and unequivocally pro-slavery on the surface.
that’s one item from the list you’re moaning about being “blatantly untrue” that is not only absolutely true, but so blatant that any idiot can pick up on it. the narrative clubs you over the head with it.
if you bother applying a VERY FUCKING TINY amount of critical thought to your analysis the classism, blood purity, misogyny, and more come to light. it helps to understand a few things about these issues in the real world, and it’s not hard to understand those either provided you stop assuming you know all there is to know and take your fingers out of your ears.
how about instead of just knee-jerking about books you clearly didn’t bother thinking about beyond “yeah, go good guys!” you try to understand why people say these things are in there. because all of them totally are, they’re shitty books stuffed chock full of shitty worldviews and shitty bigoted messaging, thinly veiled by shitty plot contrivances because she is a shitty person and a shitty writer to boot.
uh… did we read the same books?
house elves are a literally and explicitly a chattel slave race.
the sole character who goes “hey slavery bad” and tries to do something about it (Hermione) is made out to be an ass for bothering to advocate for them, both by the other characters and the narration itself.
the one house elf who even wants freedom (Dobby) is made out to be a crazy person for it.
THE “HERO” (Harry) INHERITS AND KEEPS A SLAVE (Kreecher).
and it’s supposed to be fine because “see they like being slaves, it’s what’s best for them”. which is literally what u.s. slave owners used to tell themselves, that it was morally right and good for the slaves.
Harry Potter is absolutely and unequivocally pro-slavery on the surface.
that’s one item from the list you’re moaning about being “blatantly untrue” that is not only absolutely true, but so blatant that any idiot can pick up on it. the narrative clubs you over the head with it.
if you bother applying a VERY FUCKING TINY amount of critical thought to your analysis the classism, blood purity, misogyny, and more come to light. it helps to understand a few things about these issues in the real world, and it’s not hard to understand those either provided you stop assuming you know all there is to know and take your fingers out of your ears.
how about instead of just knee-jerking about books you clearly didn’t bother thinking about beyond “yeah, go good guys!” you try to understand why people say these things are in there. because all of them totally are, they’re shitty books stuffed chock full of shitty worldviews and shitty bigoted messaging, thinly veiled by shitty plot contrivances because she is a shitty person and a shitty writer to boot.