The last really big backlash on JKR before this was over her retconning Nagini into always having been a human, and the one before that was saying that wizards used to poop on the floor before toilets were invented I wouldn't call those "political", exactly
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The "rhyming" beats may be intentional, but they're not thoughtful or well executed They don't seem to me to escalate in any particular direction like you're arguing they do
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I mean a lot of the most remarked upon anticlimaxes in Harry Potter are directly because of this Sure, you can argue that the Philosopher's Stone and the Resurrection Stone are bookends But they're not very good bookends
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Again, the point isn't to be scarier, it's to be more complex and mature. Riddle's notebook is a malicious object that colonizes Ginny's mind. Snape's book is a window onto his soul that complicates Harry's understanding of him just as their rift become seemingly unbridgeable.
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