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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Replying to @mssilverstein @Nymphomachy
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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Replying to @mssilverstein
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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Replying to @Nymphomachy @mssilverstein
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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Unlike Hogwarts the dining hall at Orwell's school was not all you can eat Like the orphanage in Oliver Twist, they did give you all this shit for asking for seconds I guess that's what happens when the kitchen can't cheap out by using house-elf labor
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