Honestly in 2020 it's kind of ridiculous to imagine that we would ever NEED to have to make the case to children that boarding school culture is uniquely toxic but JKR has romanticized and glorified it to a really unwholesome extent Plus it had a hand in creating David Cameron
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Like, the whole sequence of events which led to Cameron putting his penis in a pig is tied to boarding school culture. If LORD OF THE FLIES were to renew its cultural relevance on that basis, though, the context it's presented in would have to change significantly
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For all that Rowling claims to have been inspired by Roald Dahl, Dahl is nothing if not extremely open about the fact that boarding school made his childhood a traumatic living hell and Rowling pretty much describes it as Disneyland but for eight yearshttps://twitter.com/mssilverstein/status/1292309423982084098 …
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I mean, does she? It's a hellish place where students are constantly being tortured by their teachers, when they're NOT in the midst of a civil war. The problem is that I always assumed that the stuff that was actually just British school culture was bc of Voldemort.
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Some of it was, some of it wasn't. But it's coherent as an American reader because the bullies and abusive teachers are plausibly affiliated with Ultimate Evil, and if it turns out they're not, it's too late to remember.
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literally until the sixth book (which represents unusual circumstances) the place is basically heaven on earth
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I'm sure Neville can cry into his piles and piles of money
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It's funny that Rowling has a very Dickensian eye for the power of the animal appetites to arouse emotion and define a setting Like we never stop hearing about how bountiful and delicious the spread is in Hogwarts' dining hall, and this is a big deal to Harry and Ron
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Both of whom come from households were they weren't fed very much, either as deliberate abuse or due to poverty Which is honestly not that unrealistic for people who become incredibly devoted to institutions that save them from food insecurity
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Like during the Depression a lot of people were desperately trying to get into the military and into pseudomilitary orgs FDR created like the CCC for the chow hall They openly said so
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But anyway, it's interesting that this is such a vividly realized part of the Hogwarts fantasy when by contrast George Orwell, who came from a more privileged household than Harry or Ron, said one of his abiding memories was how much the food at boarding school sucked
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"Terrible food, and such small portions", which, contrary to what standup comedians say about it, isn't a logical contradiction at all if you're starving
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