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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Replying to @arthur_affect @Teknogrot and
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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Replying to @arthur_affect @Teknogrot and
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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Replying to @arthur_affect @Teknogrot and
Coincidentally, after JK Rowling became a billionaire bestselling author who lives in a castle and rubs elbows with other celebrities all the time, she started getting really into this idea that the teeming masses of dumb envious ignorant normies were the real evil in the world
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It really puts her enthusiastic embrace of the shitty TERF meme of being a witch hanged at Salem in perspective
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Teknogrot and
Terry Pratchett's Sourcery is a perfect satire of Rowling's wizarding world and "chosen one" narrative that somehow fell into a time warp and wound up being published in 1988
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Replying to @Kthranos @arthur_affect and
Sourcery also has a talking wizard hat and an evil wizard who puts his essence into a staff to escape death
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