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
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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.
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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".
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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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Replying to @arthur_affect @Teknogrot and
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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Replying to @arthur_affect @Teknogrot and
And this elitist fuck-you-got-mine attitude isn't something that *died down* in JKR's worldview over time, it *increased* The Fantastic Beasts films turn the idea of witch trials and witch hunting from a joke into Serious Business
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