My genuine theory is that the narrative was driving toward a reveal that blood doesn't mean shit, anyone can do magic, the wizarding world's eugenics is wholly wrong, but she repressed that challenge to a fantasy of privilege buying into eugenics & ended up radicalising herself.
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Replying to @Hal_Duncan @mssilverstein and
While interesting, this would necessarily imply that Rowling was ever, in her life, contemplative, and I just don't think there's any support for that conclusion
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @Hal_Duncan and
Yeah. I guess the problem is that it's really one of the only plausible conclusions; there's no good way to get out of "oh, ubermenschen are real, sorry if you're not one"
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Replying to @mssilverstein @Nymphomachy and
Jake Kowalski is her attempt at doing a 100% sympathetic, positive take on a Muggle character who matters to the plot in Fantastic Beasts and I gotta say It's not great
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
He's textually a veteran of the Great War who's seen some serious shit and obviously knows more about hard times and surviving trouble than someone like Newt Scamander but being a Muggle still means he's the goofy butt monkey He's also a funny fat guy
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
I mean holy shit, talk about JKR accidentally stepping into seriously dark scary ideas she has no idea how to do justice to FB2 starts with the reveal that he's been *systematically brainwashed* by his witch fiancee dosing him with Love Potion
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
And this is just a plot point that kind of happens and then we move on from it The sheer level of violation this represents is never really confronted, the fact that this makes Queenie a monster -- a fucking rapist -- is glossed over She's tragic, love makes you crazy, etc
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
Lol the ending of the movie has Queenie -- a Jewish character -- sign up with Grindelwald's forces -- the wizard Nazis -- because it's the "only way she and Jake can be together" After she's already violated him in mind and body for months, she thinks he'll take her back
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
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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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
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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I'm so torn because honestly the idea, in and of itself, is legitimately a *cool idea*, it's just so so badly executed, it comes off as a twist just for a twist's sake (and as a result, yeah, also as racist tokenism etc)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @lornmarkus and
The dark deconstructive take on Hogwarts that literally any of the magical animals, objects, locations, etc we run into that seem to be more-sapient-than-normal were human beings at some point and underwent a horrific transformation
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Replying to @arthur_affect @lornmarkus and
Mr. Weasley's admonition to "Never trust anything that can think if you can't see where it keeps its brain", which sounds very ominous but then gets completely ignored for the rest of the series Like what if Harry's broomstick contains the soul of a murdered child or something
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