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
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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Replying to @Teknogrot @mssilverstein and
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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Replying to @arthur_affect @Teknogrot and
I guess we only know the rest of them are Christian because they celebrate Christmas for whatever reason. Parvati's name references a Hindu goddess, so you can kind of guess there, but that's it. That Padma/Parvati are both Rushdie references seems too clever for JK.
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I mean they do frequently call Christmas by the name of the pagan holiday, Yule
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