or intentionally; there were, um, a few Snapes in there and they did not have secrets that redeemed them in retrospect
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I was just thinking of this video - it shows so clearly how deeply coupled Rowling's wizard culture is with British classism because it comedically falls apart the moment it's transported to any other context
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THE ROOK discusses this--someone wonders, "why isn't britain the tiny smaller partner of the dominant american chequy," and they get an answer, "oh lol, magic is super-concentrated in britain, despite the difference in population we have the same number of paranatural weirdos"
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like once you say it out loud it just comes across as cuckoo, the author's anglophilia distorting the fundamental mechanics of the world to ensure that britain remains at the center of the (magical) universe rowling, by contrast, never even bothers to consider it
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