• Zarobi@aussie.zone
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    It’s strange to me how they wrote a book about how muggles are oppressed, then they turn around and become Voldemort IRL

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      From the very beginning she makes it clear which muggles are “good”, and which are not, and thus are ok to do violence to. Same with other groups.

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        Yeah, Hagrid performs body modification surgery on an 11 year old boy because he stole a cake. This is presented by the story as just deserts.

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        The Dursleys? They’re tories, pretty sure a lot of people here wouldn’t mind punching a tory.

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        What do you mean? I don’t remember anything like that. There were jerk muggles yes, but also jerk wizard and witches

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          I’m pretty sure that the examples I’m remembering are from a video essay on youtube which I don’t expect anyone to go and watch if they wouldn’t be interested in spending time that way anyway. But I found it interesting.

          Shaun - Harry Potter. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-1iaJWSwUZs

          People who are overweight, except molly weasley because we like her, she’s in our group

          Stuff about house elves, goblins, professor trewlany, Rowling tends to decide if a person is good or bad, and then their actions are viewed in that lens, with good and bad often indicated by group membership, like what house you are in, who’s your blood ancestor,…