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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Possibly because Grindelwald's agenda to allow "wizards to live in peace in the Muggle world" will do so, as far as we know, via reducing Muggles to brainwashed human chattel en masse I dunno if Jo really thought all this through
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Don't forget the inclusion of Nagini and what she really was in Fantastic Beasts 2, because holy wow the multiple angles of racist portrayal and design.
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It's just so lazy to have the wizard Nazis and the real Nazis just kind of live their lives in parallel to each other, without any real relevance.
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It's one thing to do the kind of visual allusions or the language motifs. But like, setting this all in the mid-20th c. means you have to really face both at once.
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I still haven't watched those films, but if I were to bet, I would put good money on "the introduction of real world religion to the magical setting is completely unexamined".
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The only reason we're supposed to know Tina and Queenie Goldstein are ethnically Jewish is their last name "Goldstein", which they share with the only other canon Jewish character, Anthony Goldstein from Hogwarts Religion itself never comes up in any sense
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Jake had such potential as a character in these films. He literally gets the only moment I like in Crimes of Grindelwald, when he sees Grindy's vision of the future war and just goes "Oh God, another one." Like, that's a great line! There's so much squandered potential there!
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