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It is an interesting question because there's really no perfect answer. How do you handle a race of genetically bred chattel slaves who take pleasure and pride in their bondage and would literally rise up in a slave revolt in order to keep being slaves if you tried to systematically free them? Granted knowing JK and her morally-bankrupt neo-liberal rear end, her response is probably something like "Oh yeah once Hermione became Magic Police Chief she insisted on a bunch of laws for the humane treatment of house elves, so masters can no longer treat them like Lucius or Crouch did, everybody is happy!" while completely sidestepping the issue that slightly-less brutal slavery is still, you know, slavery.
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Or that people like Lucius and Crouch would just ignore the laws and the wizard cops would never enforce them
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House Elves should have been Familiars that require expensive reagents to maintain so only rich families have them. And then JK shouldn’t make a slavery analog out of them since she can’t do it without making it a “they like to be slaves. Keep your nose out of it.” argument.
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The critters they're based on were similar fey little elf sprite guys, but they helped out around the house if you followed their obscure code of respect and played tricks on you if you hosed it up. Have the death eaters rules-lawyer some into serving them, have some hanging around Hogwarts because Dumbledore and Flitwick are their pals, maybe have some slytherin kids get peeves'd for being dicks. Harry can help trick Dobby out of serving the Malfoys and that can be why he's loyal to Harry, instead if coming on sight-unseen. And he can get his vengeance loving up the Malfoys in their manor basically the same. There didn't need to be chattel slavery any more than the evil liche guy needed to also be a nazi.
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House elves are the equivalent of animals that want to be eaten, only instead of satire they were played straight for some reason. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAF35dekiAY&t=73s
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The gently caress is wrong with you this chapter, Jo?
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Zesty posted:The gently caress is wrong with you this chapter, Jo? I mean, the point is that Harry is a jealous poo poo in HBP after he sees Ginny making out with Dean. i don't think this is supposed to be a good thing, it's just describing how Ron is an overprotective big brother and Harry is a paranoid wannabe boyfriend.
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You know how some of these women are too popular for their own good. Don’t they know that I, the protagonist of reality, deserve them? Also trans people in bathrooms are icky. - Another successful day of writing by JK Rowling.
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Zesty posted:
The weird oversight here is that she could have fulfilled her secret TERF fantasies and had the bathrooms in the literal magic world she herself invented magically count your chromosomes and refuse entry. But instead she accidentally tells on herself by making there be a bunch of incredibly easy ways an unguarded bathroom could be accessed and used to hurt someone, proving that her one specific hang up is a lot of bullshit nonsense.
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It feels like Rowling wants to have her cake and eat it too, because she has Ginny get mad at Ron for being overprotective and saying being too popular with boys would make her a slut, while Harry being a jealous rear end in a top hat gets a pass. Sure, Harry didn't say that to Ginny's face, but the fact he got rewarded for his behavior by getting the girl in the end (complete with Ron's blessing) is some terrible nonsense. Also, yikes at that TERF bathroom nonsense.
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 fan fiction recommendationshttps://archiveofourown.org/works/21500365
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https://twitter.com/Doctor_Cupcakes/status/1362919930698596360 This franchise is cursed
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The lead of Fantastic Beasts is the brother of the Pottermore CEO. It’s corruption and bigots all the way down.
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Roth posted:https://twitter.com/Doctor_Cupcakes/status/1362919930698596360 well there goes all my hopes for that
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"It's ok to be a gamer" is the worst take of the lot imo.
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Apparently said director's son is trans so its a very specific kind of broke brain
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RIP Harry Potter Skyrim
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Imagine being so brokebrained that you consider writing, filming, editing, and uploading a 20 minute video to defend the honor of John Lasseter a worthwhile investment of your time.
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In Which the Harry Potter Fandom Supports Trans Rights! quote:
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Somebody make a bot that randomly replaces 5% of Ron's dialogue in the novels with "I am genderqueer"
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https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1363041370068369409 For reference, because why would the Harry Potter thread be up to date on this, Navalny is prominent in Russian politics as a critic of Putin and was poisoned and is currently imprisoned for being an opponent of the regime. The tweet is part of a long thread of things he's saying at an appeals court that is trying to send him away to a prison colony for a sentence of two years in prison for a crime that was exhaustively proven to be not a crime, although considering the whole poison thing odds are he wouldn't live out the sentence. The European Court of Human Rights ruled that he should be released, and Russia is supposedly constitutionally bound to follow the court's rulings, but they're trying to send him away anyways.
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he also thinks muslims are cockroaches – a very harry potter opinion!
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Navalny is not inherently good just because he is a rival to Putin. Much like Cruz is not a good dude just because he kept Jeb! away from the nomination.
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There’s a russian Harry Potter knockoff where the girl wizard flies on a double bass instead of a broom E: also an Indian one where Harry goes to India and meets some child wizards from bengali mythology Both of these were sued into the ground by Rowling, which makes sense cuz they sound way cooler than the poo poo she’s putting out Edgar Allen Ho fucked around with this message at 12:54 on Feb 21, 2021 |
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Luckily Rowling doesn't give a poo poo about animation because Little Witch Academia is a much better Harry Potter.
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Isn't there one that has Harry Potter get turned into a dwarf by a magical rain and then the rest is just Lord of the Rings with some words swapped out
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:There’s a russian Harry Potter knockoff where the girl wizard flies on a double bass instead of a broom That's loving awesome
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she's just funneling kids towards japan and tbf korea, in which there are entire industries that revolve around the high school + magic/superpowers/horrific warfare/sports/just about anything formula
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHTMidTLO60 Video is more on general transphobia in media but does have some focus on Rowling and her anti-trans book. Also Rowling adds in a bunch of unnecessary fat shaming as well.
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How is the audience supposed to know a character is bad unless I CONSTANTLY refer to them as fatty fat fats?
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She has a fat character in a scene where ever time it mentions the character it specifies that said character is grabbing another cookie from a tray.
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, she fatted fatly.
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fanfic idea: It's "dark Harry gets sorted into slytherin" but he's dark Harry bc he's a chubby lil Dudley clone the Dursleys raised as their own. He becomes one of Draco's goons.
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Dark Harry uses a flying mobility scooter.
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https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1258330103001550848?s=20 Fellas, is it gay to eat food?
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The TERF has stumbled into some fun comedy; I like the idea of Voldemort going around miserable and feeling like absolute poo poo all the time because he would only eat, like, a single piece of toast every morning. VERY reluctantly.
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Voldemort running to Hogwarts with a piece of toast in his mouth because he's late to first period transfiguration.
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