Like part of the reason the Harry Potter books are "tight third-person narration" rather than actual first person is so that the narrator can be hilariously viciously cuttingly insulting about the people Harry interacts with without making Harry himself seem like an asshole
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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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Wizards, conversely, have the magical cure for cancer and can heal any "non-magical disease or injury" but they never share it with Muggles and that's their right Let those Muggles die in Muggle hospitals, it's not their problem
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Yeah, the elite trained in/for the four Hogwarts houses--Sandhurst, the Bullingdon Club, the Royal Society, the Civil Service--are distinct in their beliefs from Voldemort's eugenics only because they think it's the White Toff's Burden to rule the proles with bourgeois propriety.
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The bad guys are actually only bad because they *extend* the society-wide belief that talent is hereditary and results in better and lesser breeds (which the text asks us to read as in fact *true*) into subjugation by open force rather than deceit.
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This is one of the critiques that Lev Grossman's The Magicians, which I mostly disliked, absolutely nails: a universe where the talented few have this much power isn't fantasy, it's horror.
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It's the third Reich. Well, at least what they thought they were making, actual results may vary, see in store for details, offer not valid inside Stalingrad Kessel
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this is a bit of a *mind asplode* moment for me because just like Harry, starting at 11, I attended a private school that you had to pass various tests to get into and that had financial aid packages so it *supposedly* admitted kids based on talent alone
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and JKR's/the books' attitude to Muggles was the prevailing one at my RL school to anyone who wasn't "smart enough" to go there (including anyone who got kicked out). They might as well have had no human value at all. I mean it's 100% accurate, it's all out there on the pages.
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When Harry asks Hagrid the basic question, "Why can't muggles know about magic?" And Hagrid scoffs like the answer should be obvious, "Because they'd all be wanting magical solutions to their problems!" Ok, but why is THAT a problem?
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I'd rather read a book about harry investigating that than the philospher's stone, tbh
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