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*
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Yeah, it's just...why would you create this specific situation to make that point? Hermione is far too right, in-universe, for the centrist baloney to make sense.
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The whole plotline being dropped from the movies is a good decision, and a sign of what a non-JKR editorial choice is like.
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There's a couple of characters, a hippie-esque boyfriend and girlfriend on a college campus, in Troubled Blood who are just Hermione in SPEW all over again They only exist so Rowling-through-Strike can express her withering get-off-my-lawn contempt for "activists" as a class
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The whole reason this horrible book is 900 pages long is that at least a good three or four hundred of these pages do nothing to advance the plot and instead just introduce characters as strawman for Jo to knock down so she gets a chance to tell us some of her opinions
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Yeah I mean the house-elves themselves kick her out of the kitchen and Dobby shoots down a living-wage, weekends-off deal, shuddering when he describes it, so Hagrid's claim that Dobby was just an oddball and most elves would be insulted by money is pretty well confirmed.
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Guilty there. I'd been reading a fair bit about the hazards of "savior" style activism, such as missionaries, charity labor, and anti-sex work activists. Work which centered the external desires of the activist over the voices of the people they were ostensibly helping.
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As such, I read the "SPEW" arc in that vein, as Hermione moved from pushing her own values on the elves to understanding their needs. (A point which, granted, was made deeply troublesome with the "eager slave" dynamic.)
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