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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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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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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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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Replying to @quisitore @arthur_affect and
"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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Yes It was a great detail for the author of that fic to throw in a quick aside from Ginny about "Cousin Milton and his horrible daughter" as a reference to this dropped subplot The idea that for someone in this situation the other person is the unreasonable one
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Replying to @arthur_affect @quisitore and
They have no fucking idea what Cousin Milton (or whatever his canon name would be)'s life was like or how much shit he ate before he got that cushy job as a stockbroker They didn't care, they never asked And they think he's the asshole for holding a grudge
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Replying to @arthur_affect @quisitore and
It's always like that "Why are you still so sore over what happened decades ago? I know it wasn't totally fair to you, but we just did what anyone would do in that situation You can't just expect the whole family to set everything aside to cater to your needs"
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