I started this series back before I knew what a piece of shit Rowling was and for whatever reason I decided to get drunk and pirate the remaining movies. And fuck, they should have been named Liberal Meritocracies And How To Worship Them.

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Newt is charming and autistic no matter what anyone says and the discourse around him being an example of nontoxic masculinity is great. The stuff about Dumbledore/Grindelwald being played straight in the second movie and then being gay again in the third (but now Grindelwald is no longer played by Depp?) is whatever. I’ll skip straight to the chase. This series seemed to just invoke the Holocaust and then forget about it.

In the second movie, it’s shown that Grindelwald has seen the future. He’s seen the Holocaust and the dropping of the atomic bomb and he shows this to his followers, claiming to want to stop it. He’s an opportunist, of course, because he’s Very Evil. But then in the third movie they confirm that his visions of the future are correct. In fact, it focuses on a crucial wizarding election held in Weimar Germany in 1933. But, twist! They have a magical creature that can tell when someone is Very Good, which lets them do that instead of an election. So the Very Evil man tries to win the election by tricking people, but the Very Good person wins because of the actions of the protagonists. So everything turned out great and nothing went wrong.

Oh right, the Holocaust. They literally do not address it. The dissolution of the Weimar Republic is not mentioned. It’s still coming. All the main characters saw it and know that it’s true and is coming and it’s just forgotten about because the Very Good person got magically elected. It really pissed me off, tbh.

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  • EpicKebabEater [he/him, it/its]
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    10 months ago
    Long rant about child abuse in Harry Potter, cw for child abuse and death

    Maybe I'm wrong because I only watched the first movie while half asleep but the character of Credence disturbs me. He is an obscurus, which is a wizard who got abused for being a wizard so their magic became a destructive parasitic entity. Handling of child abuse in Harry Potter already sucks but I got curious and checked the wiki and apparently Credence is too far gone and he is in his 20s(to be fair he joins sides with the wizard fascist, I can't remember the order of events so someone please tell me which way this went). Most obscurus just drop dead before ten btw.

    Someone(probably Rowling) unironically went and wrote a character who gets abused their entire lives, isn't helped by anyone so he develops magic mental illness and becomes both a terrible person and a pure destructive force.

    It wouldn't be bad if there was any actual representation of someone recovering from child abuse but there is four abused characters I can think of: -Credence who becomes mentally ill in a magic way and joins wizard fascism

    -Ariana who dies as tragic back story for Dumbledore

    -Harry who just doesn't have mental scars from the abuse. He doesn't need to recover because he doesn't seem to be affected.

    -Voldemort who is born of rape, is inherently incapable of love and becomes magic Hitler.

    Thanks for validating all the bad thoughts I had about getting abused wow such tolerance.

    Edit: Sorry for dumping this here I just want to bring it up when I see something about Fantastic Beasts.