They didn't actually do that Dobby and Winky get paid wages, yes, but the en masse emancipation of house elves never happens in the books (and in the closest thing we have to a sequel, Cursed Child, it's never mentioned)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Teknogrot and
This is actually what gets me the most The fandom almost universally assumes this MUST have happened and inserts this into their memory of the books because logically it seems like any decent writer would've done this But it didn't! It didn't happen at all!
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Teknogrot and
People even critique this based on this false memory ("Oh, and house-elves get emancipated in one line in the epilogue without ever really going into details") but they're wrong! They AREN'T in the epilogue, they DON'T EVEN GET ONE LINE
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Teknogrot and
The most we ever got from her about this plot point was, OUTSIDE the books, her mentioning in interviews based on the barrage of questions people had about the epilogue, that "yes, the trio did all achieve their dreams and find careers making the world a better place"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Teknogrot and
"Hermione joined the Ministry and fought successfully for reform in the treatment of house-elves" That's it Just "reform" Some kind of improvement happened, maybe they're citizens and maybe they aren't, I dunno, leave me alone
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Teknogrot and
Just the House Elves too apparently. Nothing about Muggles or centaurs or goblins or werewolves...
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Replying to @Truxillogical @arthur_affect and
Love that when Dumbledore realizes the shit has hit the fan he's ready with suggestions for ending really basic disenfranchisement like "lets actually talk to giants" as a *war strategy.* Like he's always known the oppression was there but now that there's war it's important.
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Replying to @ShieldingC @Truxillogical and
And then we learn goblins have these really specific longstanding grievances like "give us back our artifacts" and "let us use wands" but they're treated as background for the more important question, "Can Harry suck it up and work with these guys for two seconds?"
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Replying to @ShieldingC @arthur_affect and
I’ve always had a soft spot for goblins thanks to Bruce Coville and so I was already inclined to see them sympathetically. But I was livid when I read Nice Guy Bill explain goblin craftsmanship/ownership as Theyre So Unreasonable.
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Replying to @Truxillogical @ShieldingC and
This actually makes me mad, saying that because goblins and humans have different values, there's a "misunderstanding" over who owns the sword, but ultimately human values are more correct and Harry did nothing wrong
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This is another huge missed opportunity: if she'd acknowledged the theft of the sword as wrong, she could have acknowledged the sword as Horcrux, all four houses symbolically tainted by Voldemort as eugenics personified, with the realisation of that Hogwarts's nail in the coffin.
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Replying to @Hal_Duncan @arthur_affect and
There's countless signposts in the text I could point to where it's vainly trying to get through to her that Hogwarts is just plain wrong and that "noble" Gryffindor is as complicit in everything that's fucked up as the rest. The sword's backstory is so obvious a flag it hurts.
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Replying to @Hal_Duncan @arthur_affect and
And Voldemort despite being a psychopath, only exists because the wizarding world is corrupt to the core. His mom, who the story framed as a poor abused kind woman, dateraped his dad who is portrayed as a deadbeat even though realistically, he’s the victim!
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