That's an idea with HUGE potential if Rowling wants to turn the idea of brownies into some kind of commentary on slavery -- do humans keep house-elves enslaved out of fear, because their only experience with "free" house-elves is as dangerous and terrifying boggarts?
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Cluelesscreatu2 and
Not great for a children's book about wizards and witches tho is it. She isn't writting a social studies essay.
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Replying to @JamieCullum5 @Cluelesscreatu2 and
I'm not saying the books are bad because they're inaccurate, I'm saying they're bad *and* they're inaccurate If what she made up to replace the folklore she cribs from were actually creative and interesting it'd be all good, but it's not
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Cluelesscreatu2 and
I don't care whether you think they are inaccurate or not. Accuracy is not a key component of fiction
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Replying to @JamieCullum5 @arthur_affect and
It’s being used to demonstrate her weaknesses as an author- that she does not have follow through with her ideas, and does not appear to research as well as people in this very conversation have claimed
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Replying to @Cybren @JamieCullum5 and
We tend to applaud authors who "show their work", i.e., demonstrate actual time and effort put into grasping the implications of things they write about (science fiction authors demonstrating literacy in physics, etc), as indicative of a commitment/dedication to their art
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @Cybren and
JK Rowling, then, behaves invidiously by posturing as somebody genuinely literate and committed to the quality of their work when on closer inspection all her prose reads like homework hammered out hours before a due date She does pretty much everything by the seat of her pants
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @Cybren and
"Cho Chang" as a name serves as a blatant example of this It's been pointed out as not merely a culturally inauthentic name but as seemingly an offensive supposition of what such names sound like She retconned "Philosopher's Stone", but declined to address this criticism at all
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Replying to @BoardGameLawyer @Nymphomachy and
So is she a racist or just lazy. What's your point here?
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Lol as though racists aren't lazy
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