I don't get how people don't get just from reading the way the narrator in Harry Potter talks that JK Rowling is a really mean person in real life who was obviously one of the girls with a talent for cruel bullying taunts when she was in school She seriously can't help herself
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But the books never really question this They do, in fact, end up going with this idea that the talented elite deserve their privileged position by right and the bad guys are only bad because of their conservative belief that talent is hereditary
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No one brings up the idea that it *actually is fundamentally unjust* that some people win the genetic lottery and get all this inborn power other people don't Wizards get to fuck with Muggles' brains and wipe their memories at their convenience and that's fine, that's normal
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Aye, c.f. my gargantuan thread on how it reads if you posit that Muggles *can* actually do magic but just don't know to ever try. It's essentially a classist eugenics fantasy with proles as genetically inferior underclass incapable of anything extraordinary.
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If you have a spare day or two to read the 20K word dissection of her class eugenics, lol:https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1292560296503054338.html …
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The scenes of Hermione mind raping her parents are so offensive and so many people just shrugged it off as "welp, it was for their own good."
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Right. Yes, the bad wizards are eugenicist and all, but SHE'S the one who wrote a world where some people are just naturally adept at controlling nature through force of will and everyone else is not. That's an awfully eugenicist worldview.
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As a matter of fact, as I type the above words out, I'm struck by how much it sounds like "triumph of the will." And that makes me uncomfortable.
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wtf is a squib? where I come from it's a condom full of fake blood rigged to explode, and I know that's not what you're talking about
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In the Potter books, a Squib, "is a non-magical person who is born to at least one magical parent" - someone who should be able to learn magic, since it's often hereditary, but isn't.
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