"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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Replying to @arthur_affect @quisitore and
Being the Inconvenient Relative everyone just abandoned and thought was a kind of dirty family secret Until twenty years later and Times Have Changed and you've made some money now and people need something from you and all of a sudden you gotta pretend it's okay
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Replying to @arthur_affect @quisitore and
I greatly enjoy headcanoning Mafalda Weasley as being technically a Muggleborn (because a Squib who cuts off their family essentially just is a Muggle), but one raised with a deep resentment of the Wizarding World and its hierarchy
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Replying to @arthur_affect @quisitore and
And if they're lucky she's only coming to Hogwarts to learn just enough to make her FYGM money and then abandon them forever And if they're unlucky she's there to learn enough to blow the whole thing up
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Replying to @GGarethwilson @quisitore and
Wizard Killmonger is absolutely a character who should exist in Harry Potter and is such a cooler idea for a successor to Voldemort (basically Voldemort's mirror image) than what either Cursed Child or Fantastic Beasts came up with
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Replying to @arthur_affect @GGarethwilson and
Wizard Killmonger is so, so obviously a slam dunk concept for a contrasting sequel villain and, like a Vampirized Slayer in BtVS, it's incomprehensibly hackish that nobody involved ever attempted to pull the trigger on this
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It's really obvious of making him Dumbledore's secret brother -- or cousin or whatever -- and therefore foil is them kind of gesturing at this concept but I don't have high hopes a JKR script will actually get at the moral core of the conflict here
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
Ha ha oh man imagine them just reenacting the Black Panther waterfall fight scene only with stupid wand-waving spell effects and with two white guys Ezra Miller just zapping Jude Law again and again "What's the matter, cousin? Where's your magic?"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
"STUPEFY! PETRIFICUS TOTALIS! JELLY-LEGS JINX! CRRUUUCIIIIOOOOO!" "IS THIS YOUR SUPREME MUGWUMP?!"
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