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
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Anyone who's actually in the know about the Wizarding World and actually angry about it, who sees the hoarding of all this power that could prevent so much suffering by a tiny elite as unjust, is just a bitter jealous hag, like Petunia Dursley Ignore the liars and the haters
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When you look back on it from an adult perspective, trying to take this setting seriously, the idea that the Statute of Secrecy exists because "otherwise Muggles would be bothering us to solve their problems for them all the time" is a fucking moral horror It's monstrous
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I think this were her writing really shows. She used those short hands to convey they fact that wizards are powerful and cool, but didn't think at all what it makes of their morality when combined with the premise of random boy is secretly great wizard.
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She just put one word after another then found herself somewhere with horrendous moral implications and then just shrugged.
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It strikes me that the Wizarding World is basically Magneto's vision of mutant society, with Men In Black's secrecy layered on top so Rowling doesn't have to envision the impact on Muggle society.
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Wizards had literal immortality and didn't even share it with other wizards. They destroyed the source rather than allow it to get beyond one dude and his wife.
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