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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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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Which means Squibs can't fucking function AT ALL They can't go anywhere, they can't do anything They either jump into the Muggle world and struggle valiantly to acclimate to a new culture when they're eleven (a traumatic experience) or they live as charity cases like Filch
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God, this is actually a really powerful metaphor for disability, queerness, neurodivergence, etc But JK Rowling never explored it because she doesn't care It's so very frustrating All we get is a "good Squib" character in Order of the Phoenix, Arabella Figg
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Who's essentially a crazy shut-in cat lady but seems happy enough so I guess that makes the way this world treats people like her okay Man fuck that
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Oh my God There's an official story on Pottermore about the world's most famous Squib, Angus Buchanan Who came from a big family and whose siblings protected him from his conservative parents his whole childhood, faking magical ability on his behalf
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To the point where they managed to forge a Hogwarts letter and get him on the train Only, of course, the plan all falls to pieces at the Sorting Ceremony, when as soon as they put the Hat on his head it says "Hey wait a minute you don't belong in any House, you're a Muggle"
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And he's so humiliated he has a breakdown and flees sobbing from the Great Hall And he's escorted back home, only for his father to meet him at his front door and say he's soiled the family name forever and no goddamn no-magic nobody is any son of his
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And throws him out and he's now homeless and his siblings are forbidden from communicating with him Holy shit Holy FUCKING shit
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This is an archetypal queer/trans story She WROTE THIS STORY and put it on Pottermore And then she gives it a fucking happy ending Angus somehow survives as an orphan street kid with no knowledge of Muggle technology or culture He ends up getting into sports somehow
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And becomes a star player on the Scottish rugby team And suddenly one day his siblings find him and realize he's famous And his story spreads through the Wizarding World and his career gets a cult following and supposedly to this day that's why wizards root for Scottish rugby
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He writes a bestselling book My Life as a Squib that inspires someone to start a charitable foundation to support Squibs with no family And they name an award at Hogwarts in his honor, the Angus Buchanan Award for Effort (as a separate quality from talent)
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