The perspective of Harry as an outsider to a large family, who's just trying to be supportive of his daughter The feeling of his entire life unraveling beneath his feet as the people he's always loved and depended on, for the first time in his life, become utterly cold to him
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For the first time in his life, he fully understands the extent to which the kindness of his found family has limits, the haste to which his daughter has become completely dead to them, the eagerness with which they urge him to completely abandon her It is painfully authentic
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The way the story ends with Harry's family shattered over the stupidest, most senseless fucking thing His wife having completely abandoned her daughter, his best friend having ghosted him over the family honor, his daughter traumatized and suicidal from her abuse and oppression
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Some people might be inclined to call this a darkfic, and in 2011 you might have been able to sell that argument, that this story exaggerated the injustice of the setting to an extreme But I don't think you can say that anymore This IS Jo Rowling, this is her worldview manifest
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the worst part is this doesn't even feel exaggerated now, this is just, canon this is the inevitable next chapter of the story that ends with "albus severus"
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I like that this fanfic carefully avoids using the word "Squib" because the author realizes the obvious fact that in this universe it's the equivalent of am ableist slur, it's absolutely the Harry Potter equivalent of a word like "cr***le" or "r****d"
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It actually is as offensive on as deep a level as the word "Mudblood", it's just that no one talks about it the same way because Squibs are such a small minority that no one gives a fuck about how they feel
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Like this is outright in the text We are directly told and shown that Filch's life is a fucking living hell and that he's spent his life desperately trying to escape it (all those damn remedial magic correspondence courses) and the narrative sees this but doesn't care
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Indeed, Filch’s magical correspondence course thing was played for laughs in the text.
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Ink-Splotch, being somebody who really made their brand over trying to create an intersectional, moral vision of Harry Potter, turned that into a meaningful moment in their squib!Harry AU Harry finds the Kwikspell stuff in Filch's office and asks him excitedly if they work
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The fact that there's all these companies selling false hope to these people and the authorities tolerate it because it's not like there's any real solution so false hope is better than nothing It's so damn dark
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