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Not to mention, muggleborn were send to Azkaban in the last book... so you are clearly ignorant about HP world. Of course, no one is perfect. In HP world, the racism is about blood. IJK Rowling is very ignorant about those issues but this is like... canon... you know 😂😂

Btw, people from a minority can access to powerful position, it doesn't make them less discriminated 🙄 IRL France had a jewish president, USA a black president.... If we follow your logic, those people have privilege.

I may be white, but let’s not be fucking stupid, because you’re still conflating two completely different concepts. Racism is one thing; discrimination is another.

Regardless of what the author intended, if the author is incompetent and fails to portray it properly, then that’s on them. Racism is rooted in a colonial system and the structures that come with it. Muggle-borns are never subjected to a colonial power structure. They aren’t denied access to society or systematically placed beneath pure-bloods in the way colonial racial systems operate.

Can discrimination exist without being racism or without being tied to colonial structures? Of course. A white woman can experience sexism. A gay man or a lesbian can experience homophobia. But that isn’t racism.

Likewise, Muggle-borns can certainly face discrimination to some extent, but they are not trapped within a colonial system that inherently subjugates them to pure-bloods. That’s simply not what’s depicted. In fact, there are plenty of magical creatures in Harry Potter that are sentient, self-aware, autonomous beings who are subjected to a system in which wizards—whether they’re Muggle-born or pure-blood—hold institutional power over them and can exploit and abuse them.

To put it simply, a Muggle-born wizard can own a house-elf. In other words, a Muggle-born can literally be a slave owner. So no, you cannot compare Muggle-borns to victims of Western racial systems.

I’m sorry, but you’re talking like someone from the United States. You clearly lack even the most basic historical, political, sociological, and social understanding. Your education is fucking awful, and the only thing it seems to teach is that every hierarchy in the world is fundamentally racial. That may reflect the way your own country discusses these issues, but it is not the reality everywhere else. Europe’s historical systems of hierarchy have primarily been class-based. And what we see represented in Harry Potter is much closer to a caste or class system among different kinds of wizards than to a racial one.

I don’t care what J.K. Rowling intended. J.K. Rowling constantly contradicts her own worldbuilding. She tells readers one thing and then shows something completely different. That’s one of the biggest narrative flaws in the entire series.

Racism is the belief that people can be divided by race and that some groups are better than others. It involves prejudice, discrimination, or hate directed against someone because of their skin color, ethnic background, or culture.

they have the same skin color, ethnic background, and culture.

if we call it a reference to racism, it isn't POC racism.

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And no, a man having long hair doesn’t make him a woman. What I do have a problem with is people suddenly turning Remus Lupin into the tallest Marauder and some macho alpha male, which he never was. That was Sirius Black. He’s the tallest of the Marauders and one of the tallest characters in the entire series. He’s also one of the most conventionally masculine male characters in the books, and the narrative reinforces that image repeatedly.

So judging by the kind of stuff you like, it’s pretty obvious canon isn’t exactly your priority.

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Adults are allowed to be losers too.

Characters don’t have to be spotless. They don’t have to be morally pristine or perfectly acceptable all the time. If a character is morally questionable, there’s usually a reason for it. That’s the point. I genuinely don’t understand what your issue is.

Do you honestly think that those of us in our thirties have never wanted to smack a teenager upside the head? Teenagers can be absolutely insufferable. I’ve definitely been rude to them before. I’ve snapped at them. I’ve raised my voice because they were being unbearable. And that’s not exactly an unheard-of experience among adults.

Honestly, what Snape did wasn’t even that bad. I’ve had teachers who were far worse. Much, much worse. He was grumpy, unpleasant, and not particularly nice. He didn’t laugh at their jokes or indulge their nonsense. That’s it.

But even if he had been a bully—which I personally don’t think he was—that would still just be part of his characterization. It’s like saying, “How can Jaime Lannister be such an interesting character when he pushed a child out of a tower? Every time I read one of his POV chapters I remember he pushed a child out of a tower.” Can you really not engage with a compelling character because they did something terrible? Seriously? What are you, twelve years old? Has Disney completely rewired your brain?

I genuinely don’t understand this obsession younger audiences have with dismissing characters simply because they’ve done bad things. Of course they’ve done bad things. That’s fine.

A character can be incredibly brave, deeply intelligent, capable of extraordinary sacrifice, live a double life, constantly risk everything for the greater good, and at the same time be deeply dysfunctional in other aspects of their life. Why couldn’t both things be true That’s exactly what makes a character interesting. That’s what gives them nuance. Two seemingly contradictory things can coexist in the same person.

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