Hello. English teacher here. The HP books are fantastic ‘gateway drug’ readers. Read Rowling today, read Ursula Le Guin tomorrow. Also, they’re great stories with a strong message about courage. Also, JKR rocks. I was in my 20s when they came out. Family of Potterheads here.
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Replying to @CrowPurple25 @SocialJusticeMg
They're the series that introduced a whole generation of readers to the idea that a race of people born into slavery are unfit to survive without their masters and that freeing them would be an unkindness
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Replying to @arthur_affect @SocialJusticeMg
That’s an interesting take, given that freeing the house elves is one of the arcs around a main character, who is explicitly presented as struggling to end slavery, & she is clearly shown as being more morally aware than her preer group.
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Replying to @CrowPurple25 @SocialJusticeMg
They don't actually get freed at any point in the story, you understand
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On this one point I disagree- Granted, they weren't freed in the books- which is a "realism" point- but Dobby's freedom was definitely a big plot point. Again. Separation of the creation and the creator. In this case, the creator sucks. The creation, that's a matter of debate.
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They weren't freed in the epilogue either, which takes place many years later When she got the opportunity to revisit the setting in a full length work with Cursed Child, she didn't have them bring up house-elf rights at all
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Replying to @arthur_affect @LsTowT and
Despite her constantly making Word of God statements on Twitter and in interviews and on Pottermore explaining other things, like that Dumbledore is gay and wizards poop on the floor, she had never answered the question of whether house-elves were ever freed
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Replying to @arthur_affect @LsTowT and
Just that Hermione continued to push for "reform" Her take on it really does seem to be this obnoxiously centrist triangulation - house-elf slavery is not an atrocity that must be ended now, it's a "complicated issue with a lot of nuance"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @LsTowT and
Harry Potter needs a deconstruction like KOTOR or TLJ.
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Replying to @IKacprzak @arthur_affect and
If Alan Moore really wanted to criticize Harry Potter, he could point out that Voldemort is ultimately the product of an isolationist society obsessed with blood purity and running on institutional slavery.
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He wasn't really interested in critiquing HP on a Watsonian level but on a Doylist one HP was "the Antichrist" for the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen universe, a world of fictional literary archetypes, because he's the final result of cheap commercialization of recycled ideas
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