To be fair, though, that's completely on-brand for the idiot wizards in HP who would rather stick their heads in a fireplace or send OWLS than just buy goddamn cell phones because EWWWW, MUGGLES
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Replying to @AmeliaRoseWrite @LizardOrman and
I have seen the viral Reddit post yelling about the obvious fact that Harry Potter is supposed to be a whimsical world where everything is goofy and ridiculous and trying to CinemaSins it for realism is just missing the whole point
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AmeliaRoseWrite and
I get this, I agree with it, and I would argue the reason so many Harry Potter fans get annoying about this is that Harry Potter did this to itself when JKR very awkwardly tried to make the transition from goofy Roald Dahl cartoon to dark epic fantasy over time
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Replying to @arthur_affect @LizardOrman and
YES! The first couple of books were very Roald Dahl whimsical but then the books themselves started to try for something more internally consistent and it DID NOT WORK
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Replying to @AmeliaRoseWrite @arthur_affect and
the reason she botches the transition to the adult horror is that she isn't willing to interrogate the real awfulness of that whimsical world like the part where the wizard cops will send you to a torture prison for being an unregistered animagus, to take just one example
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Replying to @perdricof @AmeliaRoseWrite and
or the enslaved house elves, or the deep deep weirdness of wizards acting like the benevolent custodians of the muggle world while also treating muggles like objects there's just so much *structural evil* in the books that she is desperate to ignore
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Replying to @perdricof @AmeliaRoseWrite and
instead the evil is all presented as voldemort being this awful intrusion to a genuinely innocent, whimsical world "if we can just kill the one bad wizard, all the evil will go away" if you actually want to write a story for adults that can't be the lesson
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Replying to @perdricof @AmeliaRoseWrite and
Honestly it's deeply fucked that she invented the house elves in the first place, introduced Hermione's objections to it and had her create SPEW right then and there in that same book, and then just... kinda let it go
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
Like that's really unforgivable even just from an aesthetic standpoint, it's a massive loose end Politically it's a real mask off moment Like in hindsight there's no way to interpret how that all went down other than JKR really does get pissed off by activism qua activism
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
The shitty conservative take "Well the right thing to do is to set an example in your personal life, not to bother everyone else about it" re: some ongoing societal atrocity
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That's just... it's fucked up It's DEEPLY fucked up You have real life children doing school assignments "debating the house elf issue" and straight up reinventing arguments from the goddamn antebellum South based on Rowling's fiction
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
"I don't think freeing the elves is good because they're not ready for freedom, they're used to having their jobs and wouldn't know what to do otherwise" Real teachers had real life write this shit They credit this twee anti-abolition propaganda with teaching kids "nuance"
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