Ron would never say that.
He's the poorest of them and yet he still has 0 empathy.
Don't worry y'all I'm reading another book.
Folks forget this but Rowling made Ron the most vocal "House-elves actually enjoy their slavery and don't appreciate your advocacy Hermione" character, defending the structural injustice of magical society.
Ron and Hermione get into a bunch of fights over slavery, then Hermione marries the slavery apologist. Real lib move.
And don’t forget, Ron is canonically correct.
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most liberal book series ever. they did fuck all to address the problems that caused voldemort to rise to power
Honestly wild how the entire premise for the villain gaining power is a clear condemnation of liberals and moderates in general, something the series even acknowledges, but then ends with "well, I guess we just need better moderates!"
The climax of a seven book epic series was Harry Potter saying "I'm rubber and you're glue, whatever you say bounces off of me and sticks to you" and killing the unkillable man. Incidentally, the unkillable man got hit by this same trick on at least three prior occasions.
Harry Potter: "My parents were killed by fascists. I will one day grow up and join the organization that fights fascism."
Wizard Cops: do not fight fascism
Harry Potter: becomes a Wizard cop
Omg, guys, I think JK Rowling might be bad at writing.
I used to think it was because she thinks Fascism literally was started by one guy (Voldemort being Wizard Hitler) but she actually shows in the extended universe that Wizard Fascism goes far back.
Hmm, maybe we should address the conditions for why that just keeps happening? No? Fascism is destined to come back and murder scores of people periodically just because? Sounds about right.
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Fascism is destined to come back and murder scores of people periodically just because?
If the fascism doesn't come back every 20-30 years, how will we tell more exciting stories about liberals embarking on a Hero's Journey to defeat it?
I went to look this up, encountered a description of Ron as a "pure-blood" and then I stopped reading because I remembered how much I hate this
Ron as a “pure-blood”
In a better novel, we might have explored why Ron's family meets all the technical requirements as a "pure-blood" but still eats shit in the Wizarding World for being poor.
This is one of the more annoying aspects of the series. You can kinda see the edges of a good story - a society decaying due to disparities in wealth and privilege, a liberal democracy crumbling under the weight of its own sclerotic bureaucracy, young people faced with the pitfalls created by a prior generation, the power of propaganda in society, the relative value of education as part of both personal and social development, the presumed versus practical roles of police in society, the true nature of power, the value of human life, etc, etc, etc - but as soon as the series gets seriously monetized, the wheels come off the wagon and you're left with some some hackneyed Hero's Journey bullshit.
I'd love to live in a world where JK Rowling finished the whole series living as a single mother and part-time secretary, never knowing she'd become a billionaire by the release of the last novel. I genuinely believe we'd be looking at a very different set of novels by the end.
If nothing else, the final four books wouldn't be so bloated, since she would still be subject to editors while writing them
I don't get why Ron's family were made 'purebloods' since it contradicts how all the pureblood families look down on them. Dad has a government job.
it's so not being racist, rather than like you know, anti-racism, is a radical position and deserves kudos from the audience. joking wants a pat on the back for not supporting eugenics.
I think they are pure bloods, only that the Malfoys hate them primarily for not being anti-mudblood and anti-muggle like them.
To the extent that Aurors hold no real power differential over any other wizard, I disagree with the title. But as far as them being the direct analogue of cops in every other way, yes, AAAB
It’s literally the libertarian dream world where every single person is heavily armed 24/7. Every adult is carrying a bazooka at all times.
Yeah, like I get them banning Power Word: Kill and all, but there are at least 500 other spells that will absolutely kill you immediately, what's so special about this one?
Yeah why is Gun Spell the ultimate evil when Bazooka Spell is very easy and Fire Dragon That Will Burn Down All Of Paris While Chasing And Murdering Every Non-Wizard-Nazi Spell is possible?
In fact, there are at least 3 different versions of Bazooka Spell
Nah, their main job is maintaining the masquerade by destroying the memories of everyone who's seen something they shouldn't have, then reprimanding whatever it was that got seen and didn't clean up its own mess.
From the perspective of anyone except the wizards Harry Potter is a horror setting.
Yeah, there's a constant refrain of "If the muggles find out, or the house elves are freed, or the Goblins get magic, they'll kill us all and that's bad!" and I'm like "You have it coming though, you have it coming like white colonists in Haiti."
Reminder that in the HP universe magic is used for loads of healing purposes, including hospitals, and all of it is exclusive to wizards for "reasons"
As I understand it, that was what was implied when the aurors were first introduced in like book 3 or 4 or whatever. That they were specifically like nazi hunters. But then as the series went on, Rowling either forgot about that or decided she didn't like it, and they just became cops.
