This is actually what gets me the most The fandom almost universally assumes this MUST have happened and inserts this into their memory of the books because logically it seems like any decent writer would've done this But it didn't! It didn't happen at all!
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Teknogrot and
People even critique this based on this false memory ("Oh, and house-elves get emancipated in one line in the epilogue without ever really going into details") but they're wrong! They AREN'T in the epilogue, they DON'T EVEN GET ONE LINE
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Teknogrot and
The most we ever got from her about this plot point was, OUTSIDE the books, her mentioning in interviews based on the barrage of questions people had about the epilogue, that "yes, the trio did all achieve their dreams and find careers making the world a better place"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Teknogrot and
"Hermione joined the Ministry and fought successfully for reform in the treatment of house-elves" That's it Just "reform" Some kind of improvement happened, maybe they're citizens and maybe they aren't, I dunno, leave me alone
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Teknogrot and
Just the House Elves too apparently. Nothing about Muggles or centaurs or goblins or werewolves...
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Replying to @Truxillogical @arthur_affect and
Love that when Dumbledore realizes the shit has hit the fan he's ready with suggestions for ending really basic disenfranchisement like "lets actually talk to giants" as a *war strategy.* Like he's always known the oppression was there but now that there's war it's important.
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Replying to @ShieldingC @Truxillogical and
And then we learn goblins have these really specific longstanding grievances like "give us back our artifacts" and "let us use wands" but they're treated as background for the more important question, "Can Harry suck it up and work with these guys for two seconds?"
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Replying to @ShieldingC @arthur_affect and
I’ve always had a soft spot for goblins thanks to Bruce Coville and so I was already inclined to see them sympathetically. But I was livid when I read Nice Guy Bill explain goblin craftsmanship/ownership as Theyre So Unreasonable.
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Replying to @Truxillogical @ShieldingC and
Bill does not seem to understand that when somebody does not consent to you keeping an object you've given them dosh for, this is not a difference of opinion. This is called "hiring" or "renting" said object.
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Replying to @Hal_Duncan @Truxillogical and
Yeah, that's the really weird thing about that particular cultural clash is that it's treated as so unreasonable of the Goblins, even though it's something we also do. Goblins don't sell there stuff just rent it out is a super easy concept to grasp.
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There's a really ugly history of Europeans just interpreting these things to their advantage to justify invasion and conquest and then treating the "misunderstanding" as Natives just being stupid
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Replying to @arthur_affect @TrueMetis and
Like all these stories about the island of Manhattan being purchased for $25 or whatever What it really means is the Europeans paid a toll or bought safe passage through a territory and then pulled out their guns and said they were staying
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Replying to @arthur_affect @TrueMetis and
To hear one of the descendants tell it they only stayed there very small part of the year so if you want to give us some beads and blankets have at it.
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