The fact that the Hogwarts fantasy by its very nature is exclusionsist and elitist - "I'm not like you MUGGLES, I'm special" - and the sheer delusion of indulging in this kind of fantasy, inventing a tiny cloistered elite and then being sure you'd be in it
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In my yoga cult this is the exact type of thing we would have adopted - the normals are ‘muggles’ - but it was before HP so we took inspiration from Buckaroo Banzai and called outsiders ‘monkey boys’
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Replying to @KaviMontanaro @arthur_affect and
I mean I tweeted before about how I and
@life_minutiae attended a private school that was basically this What happens IRL is that no one can be definitively proved to be a "Muggle infiltrator" or "Squib" so there is constant competition, anxiety, constant policing1 reply 4 retweets 34 likes -
Replying to @patiencemosher @KaviMontanaro and
And your Neville Longbottom types become the target of bullying if not outright violence, especially if they are female or otherwise marginalized in some way And the faculty *supports this*, they're separating the wheat from the chaff which is obviously desirable
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Replying to @patiencemosher @KaviMontanaro and
Ha ha remember how Neville's family was so worried he was a Squib his uncle threw him out the window so he'd be forced to instinctively use his magic to protect himself And the fact that "he bounced" is the punchline of this whole situation presented as a black comedy joke
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Replying to @arthur_affect @patiencemosher and
If he actually had been a Squib he would, of course, have simply died It is not clear if his family would've gotten in legal trouble for this with the Ministry - murdering *Muggles* is frowned upon as a potential breach of the Statute of Secrecy but that doesn't apply to Squibs
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Replying to @arthur_affect @patiencemosher and
Yeah you mentioned it elsewhere but the series always seemed to me at least aware of how fucked up everything was and then... it wasn’t
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Replying to @Cybren @patiencemosher and
I liked how in A Very Potter Senior Year, which moves the plot of Chamber of Secrets to the end of the story, the Ministry really is about to call an airstrike on Hogwarts and level the place to the ground after evacuating everyone Because it's obviously a fucking deathtrap
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Cybren and
The *basic concept* that the Chamber of Secrets *exists* shows that Hogwarts itself is a labyrinthine complex filled with hidden eldritch horrors not even its Headmaster knows the full extent of And forcing parents to send their children to live there and take classes is madness
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Cybren and
I mean in the early books where they weren't taking themselves too seriously I think this was part of the joke It's a Roald Dahl goofy fairy tale, they're brewing death potions and whatnot and treating it like an ordinary boring school assignment
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Still and all, the Starkid people taking the satire to another level was pretty great "Our records show that this is the 751st student to be killed, petrified, possessed or permanently turned into an animal in the past seven years Hogwarts has finally exceeded the legal limit!"
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Replying to @arthur_affect
In principle, I'd love to see a parody that borrows the plot from Ratatouille. A student relegated to the Filch is thrust into leadership by his gifted pet rat, then after the rest of the story happens, it gets shut down abruptly for a petrification nobody paid any mind earlier.
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