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
A KEY, AN EGG, AN UNFORTUNATE REMARK begins with a brash young nephew asking his powerful witch aunt for a love potion his powerful witch aunt looks at him carefully and says, you mean a rape potion and then for the first time in his life he seems himself clearly
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Replying to @perdricof @arthur_affect and
which i guess is the difference between a novelist with a functioning capacity for moral reflection and an unthinkingly conservative bigot
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Replying to @perdricof @arthur_affect and
And considering Voldemort was born from a mother who seduced his father with a love potion, it's a major oversight in and out of universe that love potions are so easy to get.
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The fact that even TO THIS DAY she still can't fucking decide whether Love Potions are a funny joke or are a repulsive atrocity that's just a fantasy version of Rohypnol is one reason she sucks so much
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Replying to @arthur_affect @IKacprzak and
It is something that's really consistently out there in fantasy and alchemy. They don't work, and are almost never depicted as working outside of porn and Shakespeare, so we just kind of let it go.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and
Probably a mistake, by the culture.
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