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The fat phobia, simply the characters who were written as “fat”, “husky” or “bigger” were often depicted as villainous such as Crab, Goyle, and Dudley.

The goblins at Gringotts, describing them in ways that were used to stereotype Jewish people during the Holocaust, such as “long hooked noises” that appeared on nazi propaganda. As well as describing them as smart, and greedy with their riches, furthering another stereotype held.

The pro slavery narrative? That house elves are just so ‘thankful’ to be enslaved and that they think it’s their only life obligations. Seems really weird that they would sympathize with their oppressor and want to be enslaved.

Professor Quirell’s turban “hiding evil”, this is self explanatory but disrespects those who wear a turbans or any sort of headscarf covering for religious faith, making them out to be evil.

Little to no representation for poc(let alone no good representation)

The stereotyping of Indian character, Padma and Parvati Patil deserved so much better. As well as their names are some of the most stereotypical names to give a character of Indian descent.

Having 2 of the very FEW black characters(referencing Dean and Blaise) not having a father figure, this perpetuates a negative stereotype of black fathers being absent in their families life

Going further on the Jewish stereotypes of being very greedy and selfish we are introduced to “Anthony Goldstein” whom we know is Jewish solely from his name.

Cho Chang, we are going to give a Chinese character a Korean name?? Let alone cho chang, that is one of the most stereotypical names I’ve ever heard.

Promoting harmful stereotypes but what about how Seamus’ only character trait is liking rum and blowing stuff up. This isn’t a little harmful of an Irish stereotype to push?

We had a black wizard with the last name “Shakelbolt”, am I the only one that finds that wrong??

Transcoding Rita Skeeter.

As well as after coding Rita Skeeter as a trans woman, Rita also uses her status as an illegal animagus to spy on children in gof. Pushing that narrative that trans people are using their identity to be able to have access to children and those of the opposite gender, a harmful stereotype cis people have towards trans people. (It’s not explicitly stated that Rita is trans but I read her as trans as well as she is described with masculine features and coded that way by Jkr)

Fleur losing every event. Arguably you can say ‘oh someone has to loose’ but if when the only woman competing who the goblet chose her as one of the most capable wizards at her school to compete, why is she not on the same level as the men. Why isn’t she a more capable wizard? There were tens of other wizards from her school that possible could have been picked but she was the best. And she lost? Almost as if jkr deeply rooted misogyny never planned on giving fleur a decent chance.

Hermione’s inner misogyny(I love Hermione but she was written with inner misogyny especially since jkr has it). Such as her down playing Dolores assault, her hatred towards lavender(it wasn’t just jealousy), bullying/calling fleur rude names(especially since fleur is very feminine and a veela), ect trust me there’s more

Demeaning or villainizing femine interest or things stereotypically femine that can perpetuate misogyny. Like the balant disliking of Padma and Lavender for gossiping, or taking interest in fashion(notable stereotypically feminine interests).

Trigger warning: SA/R@PE. Although it is not clearly stated when umbridge is taken away by the centaurs but it alludes to her being r@ped by the centaurs. In alot of Greek myths along with stories centaurs have been known to r@pe helpless women. Even if it is not clearly written, most people know of these stories about centaurs can connect two together. Going back to the point of Hermione misogyny after Umbridge’s attack she mocks her, victim shaming her. It’s gross and disgusting.

Queer coding Nymphadora Tonks, then putting her in a heterosexual relationship with Remus only for the sake of invalidating Wolfstar

Ableism : I’m sure many disabled people can explain this way better so please feel free to add on to this but jkr when discussing Frank and Alice Longbottom’s condition referred to it as in the books as ‘a fate worse than death’. It’s obvious that it pushed harmful narrative especially towards those with disabilities or similar situations.

So recently I saw a video on tiktok about this girl who got in Tom Felton’s handwriting, the word “pure blood” tattooed. She originally had dmed him asking for him to write the word for her to get it in a tattoo, he obliged by sending her a photo of it back. She then got the tattoo done, but the real controversy is not only his response/willingness but the tattoo itself.

Here’s the video(the video is no longer up, please do not comment their user to send them hate!):

Why it’s wrong and anti-Semitic:

In the Harry Potter books written by J.K Rowling when talking about blood status, more specifically being a ‘pure blood’ means they held a high level of bias towards those they deemed “dirty” for having any drop of muggle (non magical) blood in them. This created blood supremacy on the idea that ‘pure bloods’ were far more superior for their blood line. This is a very clear allegory for the Nazis. In the books there are blood supremacists called death eaters that like the Nazis held the belief they were superior than any other blood status. Even if the Nazis did not have the same idea of blood supremacy as death eaters, they were blood purist that discriminated against people who weren’t ‘pure’ (in the Nazis case it meant ones blood wasn’t fully Aryan).

Here is a important resource that talks more about blood purity and Nazis:

‘Blood Purity and Nazi Germany’

The Nazis had the ideology that they were “purebloods” or of “pure blood” that needed to get rid of those not of “pure” Aryan descent. In their mission to cleanse the world of the “dirty blood” they killed millions of people. This blood supremacy targeted at people of Jewish and Roma descent.

Let it be known that in interviews jkr has admitted to elements of her story being about real life Nazis. Her book may be fiction but it’s modeled after real life blood supremacists. She has spoke out to say “The expressions 'pure-blood', 'half-blood' and 'Muggle-born' have been coined by people to whom these distinctions matter, and express their originators' prejudices. As far as somebody like Lucius Malfoy is concerned, for instance, a Muggle-born is as 'bad' as a Muggle”. Then going even further to add “If you think this is far-fetched, look at some of the real charts the Nazis used to show what constituted 'Aryan' or 'Jewish' blood. I saw one in the Holocaust Museum in Washington when I had already devised the 'pure-blood', 'half-blood' and 'Muggle-born' definitions, and was chilled to see that the Nazis used precisely the same warped logic as the Death Eaters. A single Jewish grandparent 'polluted' the blood, according to their propaganda”.

Admitting that the Death eaters were a allegory for the Nazis, it’s obvious that the blood supremacy in Harry Potter is another allegory for the anti Semitism the Nazis held. The word is an hate symbol about blood supremacy, so the word she got tattooed is a hate symbol and is antisemitic.

Not only that but if anyone saw the symbol without knowing about the Harry Potter universe, they would it associate with the Nazi regime’s ultimate goal of being “racially pure”. It will seem like you have a neo-Nazi symbol tattooed onto you, even if that was not her intent. The tattoo is still anti-semitic in nature, and you can’t change that.

If you’re asking “Why is Tom to blame if she wanted it?” that still does not excuse either party. He willingly supplied her with the handwriting, he hand wrote a word that not only is anti-semitic but he should’ve refused or done a lot better in that situation. It is a hate symbol. It not that hard if you played a role for ten years to understand the similarities between blood supremacy in the Harry Potter universe to the blood supremacy Nazis held. Death eaters are literally wizard Nazis, they oppress those of other blood status’. How did he ever write it and think it’s okay?? It’s not that hard to realize maybe I shouldn’t write this because maybe death eaters were blood supremacist. Idk maybe think how it’s a allegory for Nazis, and how that word literally is anti-Semitic. Maybe a grown 33 year old could realize that.

Here’s what the tiktok community had to say about it(this is linked because they were too long to fit the 1 minute limit. Please don’t send hate to any of these creators‼️):

tiktok #1 : @ sleekeazys

tiktok #2 : @ maythequeer

Note: DO NOT SEND HATE TO THE PERSON WHO GOT IT DONE. Hate and death threats will not help them, rather they need to be educated, learn how their actions were wrong, and find out for themselves the proper way both address this whilst respecting the communities they have offended/hurt. I DO NOT SUPPORT TOM OR THE GIRL WHO GOT IT DONE WHATSOEVER. I ALSO DONT SUPPORT JKR.

Sources:

Allegorical nature in the Harry Potter series

JKR On Blood Supremacy

‘Blood Purity and Nazi Germany’