The resolution is super weird too. "Oh they actually like being slaves, so we made them *wage slaves* and they just never bother with their money so the banks can do bank things with it and this is good somehow".
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See MY human values are that if there's a dispute over where something was an actual gift or just a loan, the benefit of the doubt goes to the person who gave the gift, and insisting on keeping it makes you an asshole
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What it actually does that makes it better than "is a sword" is murky too. It seemed to just pull new powers out of it's ass whenever required.
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This is another huge missed opportunity: if she'd acknowledged the theft of the sword as wrong, she could have acknowledged the sword as Horcrux, all four houses symbolically tainted by Voldemort as eugenics personified, with the realisation of that Hogwarts's nail in the coffin.
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There's countless signposts in the text I could point to where it's vainly trying to get through to her that Hogwarts is just plain wrong and that "noble" Gryffindor is as complicit in everything that's fucked up as the rest. The sword's backstory is so obvious a flag it hurts.
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