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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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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Ha ha oh man I hate this This is JKR's centrist liberal bullshit all over I know she wanted this to be a touching story about the prejudice and bigotry that still plagues the Wizarding World and shows they've got work to do to reform But fuck her and fuck "reform"
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ughghghghg it is PEAK jkr to take this storytelling opportunity and waste it on the equivalent of "and that's how cyclops got his x-men codename"
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man i literally read a tumblr post better than this, about like, squib kids with no magic scamming their way into hogwarts with like, sleight of hand bullshit and absolute lies, and getting sorted directly into slytherin
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