After all, the Weasley family's alienation of their disabled cousin was textual from the very first book But Rowling, of course, is not particularly concerned with the voice of the kind of people her beloved Weasleys would alienate, so it's left as a sinister implication
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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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The Wizarding World is a whole goddamn culture totally divorced from the Muggle world and it straight up says people raised in it just can't function in Muggle society at all - look at Arthur Weasley But if you can't wave a wand, then you can't function in the Wizarding World
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The pain Cho feels after the death of Cedric is also depicted in an outright sociopathic way. How does her grief affect Harry's ability to date her? Even with the excuse that "It's from Harry's perspective", it is utterly wretched how she is consistently depicted as just being -
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an emotional girl - and the fact that she can not talk to her friends about it is just glossed over, in favor of "Gee, aren't girls weird!"
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