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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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
Yeah, it's really a bizarre botch if it wasn't deliberate. Create this whole system of actual slavery, which rightly outrages the character who's typically your moral center, then dismiss her as whiny and say the slaves want to be slaves.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @perdricof and
She's of two minds about it Like the final moment where Kreacher is torturing himself trying to resolve contradictory commands and Hermione screams "Don't you see, how terrible it is that they've GOT to obey" is supposed to be vindication for her POV
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But, again, nothing comes of it We don't even have confirmation if house elves' legal status changed at all by the epilogue, it's not important
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