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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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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This story should've ended with Angus Buchanan using the Muggle muscle mass he built in his long life of doing hard Muggle labor to take a Muggle cricket hat and break into his shitty dad's house and beat him six ways from Sunday
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Quoting the wiki, in an earlier draft of Goblet of Fire, Molly's non magical cousin had a witch daughter with his muggle wife. And then came in this gem:
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"Although [the disabled brother] had previously been rude to Mr and Mrs Weasley, he and his wife were to have sought the Weasley family's help in introducing Mafalda to wizarding culture when they learned that she would be attending Hogwarts." YIKES.
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