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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Replying to @arthur_affect @Hal_Duncan and
In the universe as she presents it she shows the Death Eaters going around torturing Muggles for sport as, well, a bad thing to do, but also something they generally get away with How could they not? How could a Muggle possibly call the cops on them or take them to court
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Hal_Duncan and
She makes a black comedy joke out of this with the cute little twist with the Prime Minister The Ministry of Magic goes through the legal niceties of pretending they interact Muggle government on equal terms But of course they don't really
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Hal_Duncan and
The PM doesn't get told jack shit, and more importantly doesn't get *asked* jack shit No wizard would ever take *orders* from a damn Muggle
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Hal_Duncan and
It really does end up being a struggle between a "liberal" elite who preach benign neglect and an openly fascist elite who preach unrestrained sadism But they're all fucking dyes-in-the-wool elitists
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Hal_Duncan and
The genuinely democratic, populist point of view only comes up at all to get mocked and abused, making Hermione into an out-of-touch Soapbox Sadie with SPEW Muggle populists show up as cartoon fundie villains in Fantastic Beasts (the witch hunters)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Hal_Duncan and
It's a really striking far-right turn in the middle of that plot. The House Elves really are being abused, and we see it constantly. Dobby is terrified constantly. Then suddenly, it just stops being anyone's problem and Hermione is a joke.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and
I mean, why the fuck did she bring it up at all just to shoot it down? How was that supposed to work? If we want to figure out when she got the brain weasels, that's probably it.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @Hal_Duncan and
In hindsight she is absolutely an obnoxious centrist who sincerely thinks "these activists have their hearts in the right place but they don't get how the world works and their ideas will never succeed in real life"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
People who had the big picture galaxy brain take that the SPEW arc was satirizing or critiquing or problematizing that kind of POV are wrong She is not nearly that deep, and she is not deconstructing or subverting a goddamn thing She expresses that POV because she believes it
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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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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
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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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
So... is this like an Ayn Rand novel or something?
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