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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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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The first movie is about Muggles sometimes being lovable loyal sidekicks if they know their place, like Jake Kowalski, but generally being a looming dangerous threat, the true enemies of all wizards It goes really far with arguing that Grindelwald actually has a point
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This was my chief complaint about Wakanda. Which is neither here nor there.
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To be fair, Wakanda dodges that because the "muggles" in the MCU would have gotten Wakandans to solve all their muggle problems via colonialism and oppression. Wakanda isn't presented as the secret ruling class, merely the one non-white nation that managed to avoid that fate.
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