It seriously sends me how part of JKR's public persona is being "nice", like she's seriously one of the least nice people in the world She used to dish *constantly* about how all the hateable characters in Harry Potter were her getting back at someone in real life
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Teknogrot and
That makes a lot of sense of her complete inability to let characters develop in accordance with the narrative dynamics. Like, the narrative desperately wants Petunia's backstory to make her sympathetic, as any decent writer would click and make Harry see it, but Rowling won't.
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Replying to @Hal_Duncan @arthur_affect and
The narrative genuinely manages to make her sympathetic, but then Rowling puts them on a bus and sort of gives Dudley a half-assed redemption moment via "basic politeness".
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Replying to @Teknogrot @Hal_Duncan and
Really, when you actually look at the context of that shit, Petunia was basically told "your sister is better than you because LITERAL MAGIC and if you tell anyone they will think you are an idiot and/or mindwipe you" and then... just let live her life. How could she NOT hate it?
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Replying to @Teknogrot @Hal_Duncan and
The sheer lack of sympathy the books have for Muggles, even when the premise evolves into Voldemort and the Death Eaters being evil Nazis specifically because they hate Muggles She kind of tries, with stuff like the Prime Minister chapter, but it doesnt stick
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Teknogrot and
Like, it's telling that the worst thing about the Death Eater regime in Deathly Hallows is *falsely accusing Muggleborn wizards of just being Muggles* "Who did you steal that wand from? Whose magic have you been leeching off of?" etc
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Teknogrot and
And that obviously shouldn't be presented as the worst thing they do The worst thing is how they treat ACTUAL Muggles - and Squibs - who ACTUALLY can't do magic The fact that a Muggle is helpless to stop anything a wizard wants to do to them should be a horrifying injustice
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Teknogrot and
wtf is a squib? where I come from it's a condom full of fake blood rigged to explode, and I know that's not what you're talking about
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Replying to @HenryWHall @arthur_affect and
In the Potter books, a Squib, "is a non-magical person who is born to at least one magical parent" - someone who should be able to learn magic, since it's often hereditary, but isn't.
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Replying to @ThomasJohnMurch @arthur_affect and
Why did she name it after an exploding blood pack?
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Probably from the expression "went off like a damp squib" to mean a disappointing failure (i.e. a squib that doesn't go off because it got wet)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HenryWHall and
Confusingly, because her reference to the expression leaves out an important word ("damp"), it ends up meaning the opposite of what it sounds like it should mean But that's how these things go
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ThomasJohnMurch and
Oh yeah, cool, so she just forgot the most important part of that phrase
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