The interesting thing i found about HP at the time was itās very clear that most non wizard beings are oppressed and yet this is barely examined and the focus is more on the danger to the main charactersā¦which in retrospect is very interestingā¦oppressed groups being ādangerousā
Harry Potter is one of those things where I donāt care how important it was or is to you sentimentally or whatever. I insist you find another fucking thing. There are so many things. Other things. Better things. Literally anything.
like thereās so many times she comes close to making a point on somethingā¦.just doesnāt? (no exploration of how squibs are a second classā¦no wonder filch is a miserable bastard I would be if K had to spend my years watching privileged little shits pass me by living the life I never could)
You could write a book on the fucking house elves and what a travesty of a slavery metaphor that was. Not in how much of a wasted opportunity it was, but in how revealing it was to how Rowling actually views slavery as an ongoing global institution.
Itās weird how it went from a cutesy , fun magic romp about a kid becoming a wizard and defeating evil, to that kid becoming a cop to keep enforcing the magic user/non magic user apartheidā¦
It feels like blatantly engineered propaganda.
The series āmaturing with its audienceā made sense but the problem was she then was trying to build YA on a foundation of childrenās book logic and she couldnāt pull it off, hence why the later books are so surface level legit I think she just doesnāt think too hard about stuff
