All of the Muggle-related crimes Arthur Weasley deals with are explicitly much less important (remanded to the Dept of Enforcement but not actual Aurors) and all involve breaking the Statute of Secrecy, not harming Muggles in general
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Hal_Duncan and
In the universe as she presents it she shows the Death Eaters going around torturing Muggles for sport as, well, a bad thing to do, but also something they generally get away with How could they not? How could a Muggle possibly call the cops on them or take them to court
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Hal_Duncan and
She makes a black comedy joke out of this with the cute little twist with the Prime Minister The Ministry of Magic goes through the legal niceties of pretending they interact Muggle government on equal terms But of course they don't really
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Hal_Duncan and
The PM doesn't get told jack shit, and more importantly doesn't get *asked* jack shit No wizard would ever take *orders* from a damn Muggle
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Hal_Duncan and
It really does end up being a struggle between a "liberal" elite who preach benign neglect and an openly fascist elite who preach unrestrained sadism But they're all fucking dyes-in-the-wool elitists
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Hal_Duncan and
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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Replying to @arthur_affect @Hal_Duncan and
It's a really striking far-right turn in the middle of that plot. The House Elves really are being abused, and we see it constantly. Dobby is terrified constantly. Then suddenly, it just stops being anyone's problem and Hermione is a joke.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and
I mean, why the fuck did she bring it up at all just to shoot it down? How was that supposed to work? If we want to figure out when she got the brain weasels, that's probably it.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and
"Lol at the super-earnest, out-of-touch child trying to end chattel slavery" is a helluva B-plot.
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Replying to @andrewdridgway @mssilverstein and
Especially since she later said that Hermione could just as easily be Black. So it sounds like "Lol at the super-earnest, out-of-touch BLACK child trying to end chattel slavery." Ouch. https://www.cnn.com/2016/06/06/entertainment/jk-rowling-hermione-cursed-child/index.html …
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Yeah well she just made that up when they cast a Black actress in the play, it's really obvious she never actually thought of her as Black
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Replying to @arthur_affect @andrewdridgway and
And the "Brown eyes, frizzy hair, very clever. White skin was never specified. Rowling loves black Hermione" tweet is one of those things that fall squarely into the "things wealthy white novelist ladies just shouldn't say" category. Just no.
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