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Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. 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

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    2. 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
    3. 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
    4. 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
    5. 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

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    6. 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
    7. 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
    8. 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

      7 replies 15 retweets 128 likes
    9. 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
    10. 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
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Oct 2020
      Replying to @Hal_Duncan @Teknogrot and

      Yes The whole thing is that when Voldemort talks about wanting to rule over Muggles as a tyrant... they're already halfway there Wizards already think they have the right to nonconsensually VIOLATE YOUR MIND and WIPE YOUR MEMORIES so you won't know they exist

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

          It's made super clear in-universe that no one in the Ministry gives a shit about Muggles or even knows anything about Muggles Whenever the Aurors investigate "Dark wizards" they're investigating crimes *against other wizards*

          1 reply 4 retweets 82 likes
        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Oct 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Hal_Duncan and

          All of the Muggle-related crimes Arthur Weasley deals with are explicitly much less important (remanded to the Dept of Enforcement but not actual Aurors) and all involve breaking the Statute of Secrecy, not harming Muggles in general

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        2. Hal Duncan‏ @Hal_Duncan 1 Oct 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Teknogrot and

          And note: Harry's godfather being wrongly imprisoned in a prison that Harry should abhor as a Muggle-raised normal person, with no hope of appeal or clearing his name latterly on account of that Memory Charm shit? Harry sh/d be turning against the wizarding world from Book 3 on.

          1 reply 2 retweets 35 likes
        3. Hal Duncan‏ @Hal_Duncan 1 Oct 2020
          Replying to @Hal_Duncan @arthur_affect and

          Part of the reason I got sucked into that monster thread was AFAIC there's visible signs of a narrative struggling to get out in which Harry *does* recognise the monstrosity of the wizarding world & turn on it, but Rowling is fighting it every step of the way. And wins, sadly.

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        1. Lenoxus‏ @Lenoxus 1 Oct 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Hal_Duncan and

          Imagine the heroes feeling obligated to unmask everything to muggles — and carefully, before authorities wipe *their* minds first (it's always a missed opportunity when memory-altering exists and viewpoint characters don't experience it at least once, as a narrative twist)

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        1. Chris Hyland‏ @mr_teatime 1 Oct 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Hal_Duncan and

          Your first point there does seem like the main theme at some points in the books, then there's absolutely no payoff.

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        2. Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li‏ @perdricof 1 Oct 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Hal_Duncan and

          hermione brainwashing her own parents is presented as this Hard Choice that reveals her true strength of character willow brainwashing tara is, on the other hand, presented as this moral horror--what commits her to the dark willow path, even without the trio's involvement

          2 replies 0 retweets 13 likes
        3. Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li‏ @perdricof 1 Oct 2020
          Replying to @perdricof @arthur_affect and

          anyways it's really saying something that "brainwashing people for your own convenience" is pretty low on the list of atrocities-presented-as-good in harry potter

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        1. inside the event horizon, there is no way out‏ @eigenvectrix 1 Oct 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Hal_Duncan and

          Summary Obliviation is justified by the International Statute of Secrecy, which must exist because otherwise wizards would be asked to use their talent for the common good Seems like disingenuous self-victimisation has been a narrative in Jo's life for longer than we thought

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