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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Fuck the story about the gay kid who got kicked out at the age of fucking twelve and then somehow became a star athlete and his dad felt bad and said sorry and bought his fucking book Like that somehow fixes anything for the kids who just fucking died
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Fuck the book and fuck the condescending award named after him that ISN'T EVEN GIVEN TO PEOPLE WITH HIS DISABILITY, just abled students who share his ability to "overcome difficulties" The whole thing is such on the nose centrist liberal pablum it hurts
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Insert the take that the story of Rudolph shows that differences, and those with them, are only tolerated if they're useful.
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The fact that Voldemort's megalomaniacal tyranny is just the logical endpoint of the elitist gatekeeping that underlies their ENTIRE SOCIETY And the books just never deal with that, they fully accept Voldemort has gone "too far" but a *reasonable* amount of elitism is correct
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This really underlines something I've thought for a while; the most compelling parts of Potter are the ones Rowling has the least interest in exploring because they're just things she agrees with and that sucks
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