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Snape said burgessley.

Ron ejaculated loudly

Dumbledore said calmly.

Even wizards have gamer moments sometimes.

https://youtu.be/K4NM_9Z11-o

"Elves enjoy being slaves," Rowling wrote calmly

Adverbs, adverbs everywhere

Sounds more like something Malfoy would say.

"You're expelled, Granger!" Dumbledore stated joyfully

"There is no such thing as trans women, they're all just men trying to erase womanhood!" everyone said in unison.

action52 posted...

"There is no such thing as trans women, they're all just men trying to erase womanhood!" everyone said in unison.

In Harry Potter, Dumbledore calls Voldemort by his birth name, Tom. This foreshadows the fact that J.K. Rowling does not respect people's chosen identities and enjoys deadnaming them
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DrizztLink posted...

https://youtu.be/K4NM_9Z11-o

God damn, Ron is hot with boobs.

Doe posted...

"Elves enjoy being slaves," Rowling wrote calmly

Ok, im no fan of Rowling and i can easily say shes a bad person, but the book makes it really clear that the elves are codependent and dont know anything BUT slavery. Its like an abused woman who wants to stay with their abusive boyfriend because she loves him.

_____Cait posted...

Ok, im no fan of Rowling and i can easily say shes a bad person, but the book makes it really clear that the elves are codependent and dont know anything BUT slavery. Its like an abused woman who wants to stay with their abusive boyfriend because she loves him.

Hermoine is made out to be a fool for pursuing elf rights. It's not "wow the elves have been so oppressed that they even think it's a good thing", it's "well actually this is the natural position of the house elf in the hierarchy of society", which is literally antebellum south logic

Doe posted...

Hermoine is made out to be a fool for pursuing elf rights. It's not "wow the elves have been so oppressed that they even think it's a good thing", it's "well actually this is the natural position of the house elf in the hierarchy of society", which is literally antebellum south logic

Maybe its been a long time since i read it, but i really felt like it was just yeah wizard society sucks and they wont be fixing this elf thing

_____Cait posted...

Maybe its been a long time since i read it, but i really felt like it was just yeah wizard society sucks and they wont be fixing this elf thing

Pretty much everyone thinks she's out of her mind for trying to stop it and her attempts to do so are treated as a joke. The most character development that happens on that front is that Ron takes a moment to remember that they should probably make sure the house elves aren't murdered by Death Eaters in the last book.

Yea it seems to me that the elves have just been through so much ancestral trauma, that as a race, they all have been brainwashed culturally into docile acceptance of slavery

Harry exclaimed, I cant believe Im fucking my best friends little sister!

MICHALECOLE posted...

Harry exclaimed, I cant believe Im fucking my best friends little sister!

"Shut the hell up, Harry! I don't want to hear about that!" Smirked Ron

Zikten posted...

Yea it seems to me that the elves have just been through so much ancestral trauma, that as a race, they all have been brainwashed culturally into docile acceptance of slavery

Personally, I always figured they're a created species. Some magic asshole cobbled them together or mutated some other, more powerful creature and created this race of maids.

pegusus123456 posted...

Personally, I always figured they're a created species. Some magic asshole cobbled them together or mutated some other, more powerful creature and created this race of maids.

Alright come down Ben stein

MICHALECOLE posted...

Alright come down Ben stein

I know enough about Ben Stein to be insulted but not to know why you went for that reference lol

pegusus123456 posted...

I know enough about Ben Stein to be insulted but not to know why you went for that reference lol

It was a reference about how he loves intelligent design, but I enjoy the thought that you read that and did this

MICHALECOLE posted...

It was a reference about how he loves intelligent design, but I enjoy the thought that you read that and did this

Ah lol.

I thought you were saying I'd made some kind of racist comment

_____Cait posted...

Maybe its been a long time since i read it, but i really felt like it was just yeah wizard society sucks and they wont be fixing this elf thing

"Oh don't you mind Dobby, Hermione, he's a bit well...he's just got drapetomania is all. Them other elves likes being enslaved and would turn to drink and gambling without the fatherly direction of their wizard masters" Said Hagrid sincerely as he fired on Fort Sumter.

While it's admirable that your young mind was so unwilling to accept the text's premise that you filled in a bunch of stuff when you originally read it, your interpretation is very much not in the text. There's no consideration of getting house elves to a point of freedom, S.P.E.W. is ridiculed and mocked throughout, Harry ends the story still owning a slave.
Dobby's companion, Winky, is depicted as being unable to do anything but drink herself into a stupor after being freed. She's literally a picture of how a lot of slave owners in the US and England thought black people would behave if left to their own devices. In the mobile game "Harry Potter: Magic Awakened" the player can encounter Winky, who has gotten better, but only because she's working at Hogwarts and she tell the player that SPEW is a bad organization and that Dobby is a bad elf.
Harry Potter and his friends react to a wall filled with the decapitated heads of house elves by putting Santa hats on them.

I'm very much not saying Rowling supports the Confederate States of America or that she has named her dildo Robert E. Lee, but there's some very distinct similarities about how Wizards talk about house elves and how white people talked about black people. After the second book, no one other than Hermione and Dobby talks positively about the idea of elf freedom, and those two are consistently mocked for it by the text itself, portrayed as annoying and wrong. There's a nod to wizard society being awful with the statue in book 5, but then nothing is ever done to follow up on that or make changes. The epilogue explicitly shows us that the status quo still rules supreme, and the severe injustices of the Wizarding World can only be assumed to be ongoing.

I don't think Rowling thinks it's better for black people to be enslaved, but she wrote a book that uses a lot of the same arguments that were used to justify the enslavement of black people. She seems to be entirely in favour of the status quo, and has actively fought against a more inclusive society because helping a vulnerable population would make her feel uncomfortable. I have no doubt in my heart that if Rowling had been born and gotten rich at a time when enslavement of black people was normal, she would be wholly against emancipation.

SocialistGamer posted...

Snape said burgessley.

Snape was in love with Harry's mom, a smuggle-born.

blablablax17 posted...

Snape was in love with Harry's mom, a smuggle-born.

And was cannonically a-okay with Voldemort genociding them as long as he would get to keep Lily to stick his dick in.
The only reason that Snape gets a good perception is because he was played by Allan Rickman. The Snape from the books is ungodly creepy and an absolutely garbage human.

One experiment that is deeply uncomfortable is imagining what Snape and Harry's relationship would have been like if Harry had been born a girl and had her mother's eyes, or worse yet looked as much as her mom as boy-harry looks like his father.

But from my point of view Slytherin are the real mudbloods.