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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Oct 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Teknogrot and

      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

      4 replies 11 retweets 172 likes
    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Oct 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Teknogrot and

      That's kind of the whole point of the Cormoran Strike books, like the "Robert Galbraith" persona and Cormoran Strike himself as a narrator are JKR putting on this mask of a tough working-class war veteran badass macho dude so she can just go ham on being a huge asshole

      2 replies 5 retweets 128 likes
    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Oct 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Teknogrot and

      Both Cormoran himself and "Robert Galbraith" can just fucking roast people constantly like an insult comic at an open mic And it comes off as likable brutal honesty when it's this weathered masculine dad saying it, preserving Jo's own image as this warm cuddly maternal librarian

      1 reply 6 retweets 114 likes
    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Oct 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Teknogrot and

      It seriously sends me how part of JKR's public persona is being "nice", like she's seriously one of the least nice people in the world She used to dish *constantly* about how all the hateable characters in Harry Potter were her getting back at someone in real life

      4 replies 32 retweets 187 likes
    5. Hal Duncan‏ @Hal_Duncan 1 Oct 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Teknogrot and

      That makes a lot of sense of her complete inability to let characters develop in accordance with the narrative dynamics. Like, the narrative desperately wants Petunia's backstory to make her sympathetic, as any decent writer would click and make Harry see it, but Rowling won't.

      2 replies 1 retweet 112 likes
    6. Arquinsiel Teknogrot‏ @Teknogrot 1 Oct 2020
      Replying to @Hal_Duncan @arthur_affect and

      The narrative genuinely manages to make her sympathetic, but then Rowling puts them on a bus and sort of gives Dudley a half-assed redemption moment via "basic politeness".

      1 reply 1 retweet 71 likes
    7. Arquinsiel Teknogrot‏ @Teknogrot 1 Oct 2020
      Replying to @Teknogrot @Hal_Duncan and

      Really, when you actually look at the context of that shit, Petunia was basically told "your sister is better than you because LITERAL MAGIC and if you tell anyone they will think you are an idiot and/or mindwipe you" and then... just let live her life. How could she NOT hate it?

      2 replies 2 retweets 104 likes
    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Oct 2020
      Replying to @Teknogrot @Hal_Duncan and

      The sheer lack of sympathy the books have for Muggles, even when the premise evolves into Voldemort and the Death Eaters being evil Nazis specifically because they hate Muggles She kind of tries, with stuff like the Prime Minister chapter, but it doesnt stick

      5 replies 5 retweets 122 likes
    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Oct 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Teknogrot and

      Like, it's telling that the worst thing about the Death Eater regime in Deathly Hallows is *falsely accusing Muggleborn wizards of just being Muggles* "Who did you steal that wand from? Whose magic have you been leeching off of?" etc

      4 replies 5 retweets 110 likes
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Oct 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Teknogrot and

      And that obviously shouldn't be presented as the worst thing they do The worst thing is how they treat ACTUAL Muggles - and Squibs - who ACTUALLY can't do magic The fact that a Muggle is helpless to stop anything a wizard wants to do to them should be a horrifying injustice

      5 replies 5 retweets 134 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Oct 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Teknogrot and

      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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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Oct 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Teknogrot and

          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

          3 replies 4 retweets 61 likes
        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Oct 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Teknogrot and

          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

          4 replies 3 retweets 56 likes
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        2. Hal Duncan‏ @Hal_Duncan 1 Oct 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Teknogrot and

          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.

          2 replies 7 retweets 79 likes
        3. Hal Duncan‏ @Hal_Duncan 1 Oct 2020
          Replying to @Hal_Duncan @arthur_affect and

          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.

          2 replies 6 retweets 76 likes
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        2. chatham harrison dba SENATUS DELENDUS EST‏ @chathamharrison 1 Oct 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Teknogrot and

          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.

          1 reply 3 retweets 26 likes
        3. Cinderella Dracula‏ @AveryOfBirds 1 Oct 2020
          Replying to @chathamharrison @arthur_affect and

          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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        2. Murderclown Hostage‏ @patiencemosher 1 Oct 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Teknogrot and

          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

          1 reply 0 retweets 9 likes
        3. Murderclown Hostage‏ @patiencemosher 1 Oct 2020
          Replying to @patiencemosher @arthur_affect and

          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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        2. Will Never Shut Up About Rape Culture‏ @ShieldingC 1 Oct 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Teknogrot and

          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?

          2 replies 2 retweets 21 likes
        3. selwyn‏ @FleurDeElise 1 Oct 2020
          Replying to @ShieldingC @arthur_affect and

          I'd rather read a book about harry investigating that than the philospher's stone, tbh

          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
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