The power of this fic lies in its ability to depict the ugly side of the characters Rowling's narrative voice extols as wholesome, warm and virtuous, the characters that are, frankly, coded as Good and Noble Christians To show how readily they would make loved ones into pariahs
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SO OFTEN Rowling acknowledges someone's pain but just doesn't care She shows us someone's suffering and then gives us permission to move on from it because all their suffering does is upset and inconvenience the people who really matter That's her worldview, that's her ethics
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It's this awful thing - with plenty of irl parallels - where "wizard" is both a cultural identity, a pretty deeply ingrained and fundamental one, *and* a specific set of abilities
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"freedom? for house elves? how childishly absurd!" hp could have ended with an army of liberated elves defending hogwarts from the incompetent bad wizard man
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"slavery is fine actually" - jkr like the wizarding world is just dubai (or mar a lago), with all the glitz and glamour, and human suffering and exploitation behind the scenes, that that implies
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His only friend was that damn cat and they made his ass a JANITOR even though those assholes could just clean everything with MAGIC!!!!!
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I wanna read a story where Filch burns the school to the ground with gasoline.
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Reminds me of this novel about a kid whose magic never manifests, and what a mess it is when literally everything in her society--such as getting dressed, cooking, etc.--REQUIRES magic. It's a pretty blatant metaphor for accessibility and ableismhttps://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/12969596-ordinary-magic …
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do you recommend it?
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Indeed, Filch’s magical correspondence course thing was played for laughs in the text.
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Ink-Splotch, being somebody who really made their brand over trying to create an intersectional, moral vision of Harry Potter, turned that into a meaningful moment in their squib!Harry AU Harry finds the Kwikspell stuff in Filch's office and asks him excitedly if they work
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