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Felix and his mother are plotting something. I don’t think it’s evil in and of itself but they are definitely against keeping the secret. I don’t think they will tell anyone directly but they are not going to cover if Adrien or anyone finds out.

Many acknowledge the similarities between Luz and Alador, or Amity and Eda. However not enough people discuss Amity and Camila.

1. Both Changed their hair as they conformed to the standards of those around them.

Camila was initially fine with Luz’s creativity and her hair used to be more curly. However others didn’t approve and as time passed, she began straitening her hair as she confirmed to society’s standards.

Amity used to be friends with Willow and didn’t care and back then, she had her natural brown hair. However her parents disapproved and so did Boscha and Skara, who Amity was forced to hang out with. (Though it’s interesting her parents made no attempts at recreating the group) As time passed, Amitys hair was dyed green in order to blend in with her family.

2. Both were more or less blackmailed into pushing away Luz/Willow.

The principal scared Camila into believing whatever happened to her would also happen to Luz if she didn’t send Luz to camp.

Amitys parents told her that they would make sure that Willow wouldn’t attend school if She didn’t cut off ties with Willow and befriend Boscha and Skara instead.

3. The Somewhat apology and transformation.

When Camila found out that Luz willingly entered the Boiling isles, She began crying about how she didn’t mean to push Luz away.

When Inner Willow confronted Amity, Amity began explaining why she did it.

Interesting enough, Camila is in the rain while Amity was being lit on fire. (And Camila was speaking to Luz who couldnt physically be with her, and Amity was with inner Willow instead of actual Willow.

Afterwards, both let their hair down and changed their appearances. Camila’s became curly again and she started getting grey hair. While Amity decided to dye her hair purple.

4. Understanding Willow and Luz.

Despite the making up, Camila and Amity still had to learn to understand Willow and Luz better.

So it seems there’s a lot of recording going on, wonder what Felix and Kagami are up to since whatever’s happening concerns their mothers.

Is Adrien trying to figure out the senti secret and/or family drama?

New graphic Novel and it looks like Amity is dressed for a wedding or party. (Wonder if her older siblings are graduating or if there’s a sweet 16 or Eda wedding)

I didn’t think I’d make another HP post but Rowling is officially on the Epstein Files now and has been freinds with him since before Deathly Hallows came out and judging from the files, she may have even have used her initial Hp money on him; So now more things that should have been huge red flags even at the time.

Hermione and Krum, who have a 3 or so age difference. (Hernione was 14/15 when they met while Krum was at least 17.)

Ginny is implied to be jealous of Fleurs sister’s interactions with Harry. Despite the fact that Fleurs sister was likely not old enough to even attend school yet.

Tonks and Lupin. Though admittedly they are both adults at the time.

Bill and Fleur, the latter of whom was 17/18 or so when they met while he was graduated for years.

Dudley straight up asks if Cedric was Harry’s boyfriend, and Cedric was at least 3 years older than Harry.

More Bigotry in Harry Potter and other spaces.

(To be clear, this bigotry is often used in our everyday lives but that doesn’t change the words history and the series was initially written during the 1990s. Plus with Rowling’s age, she would have likely been more exposed to the earlier meanings.)

A lot of people may have come across these words and used them themselves because of how often they are used.

1. Phrases based on physical disabilities.

We can find examples of this bigotry a lot:

The phrase here, which is a movie only quote.

The phrase “fell on deaf ears” or “Feigning deafness used a few times, when others don’t believe Harry.

The words “Idiot” “Idotic” “Stupid” and other similar words, (which Rowling often used in her Fatphobia and When describing characters she doesn’t like)

2. Treating Mental Illness or Deafness/Blindness as an insult or metaphor.

Earlier on Lila seemed bothered by her fake mother telling her that they can’t hang out and later, she is angered by Andre’s comments about Audrey and Chloe.

So Kagami and Tomoe are openly discussing the whole Senti thing and Tomoe being a villain.

Tomoe is apparently Lila’s mother or the latest fake mother. Lila straight up calls her mother and Kagami, the favorite daughter. Imagine trying to date your sisters boyfriend. Cany help but wonder if Lila specifically came to follow Kagami. (But Kagami clearly doesn’t know because she doesn’t recognize Lila.)

Nobody wants to tell Adrien about The senti thing, at least not yet. (Though I don’t know why since it concerns him as well. Edit. But then again it’s connected to the Gabriel is a villain thing which could imply Felix is now in on keeping it from Adrien.)

Remember all those comments about how Felix was going to do something bad to Marinette for breaking the rings?

Stereotypes and Bigotries

Humans are still treated badly. Hermione preferred erasing her parents memories over just talking to them and asking the order for help. Also Ron confesses to literally brainwashing a Human in one of his last scenes.

Feminine characters are still mocked or villainized.

Molly and Bellatrix are supposed to fight to show how Molly is better than Bellatrix because she’s a mother while Bellatrix isn’t.

Wands in general, symbolizes independence, individuality, importance and masculinity. Now that being said, let’s look at the characters who lost their wands. Lucius? Lost it To symbolize Voldemort was now the one in charge at his house and he would now just be around. Draco? Loses multiple wands because he doesn’t want to fight but he also doesn’t want to join the Trio either. Hermione? Loses it around the time that she and Ron get together Because “Good Girls don’t take care of themselves by themselves, instead their boyfriends/husbands do it”. (Even when Hermione breaks a Horcrux, Ron is the one who came up with the idea of using the Basilisk and opened the door, which I will get into.)

Rule Followers are still treated badly. Not to mention how the narrative often treats Draco’s empathy and reluctance to attack as cowardice.

This scene of Draco reacting to Charity Burbage is interesting. As Voldemort points out, He would not have taken her classes yet despite denying recognizing her, It’s ambiguous whether or not He might be lying. Draco is uncomfortable with looking at her, Especially as she was awake. Furthermore Voldemort’s response started with “But” despite how Draco was shaking his head “No” unless Voldemort was telling himself that he shouldn’t be asking Draco as he wouldn’t know.

However what is clear is that Draco doesn’t approve of her being harmed.

(Side Note. This is really interesting how both Snape and Draco avoid trying to feel anything for Charity and denies knowing her. Originally Snape said nothing until She began calling out to him, so he reluctantly admitted he did know her. Then Draco followed swiftly and was avoiding her altogether, not only to try to avoid watching her be upset/in pain, but potentially also so she wouldn’t recognize him either or speak to him. Additionally He has plausible deniability due to not getting a good look at her, which he would later copy when dealing with being asked to identify the Trio later. )

Ron Weasley’s treatment and the Locket Horcrux.

Rowling has really weird ways of making Ron “Mature”. She also began treating Ron like how the movies did as time went on.

The previous book, the point of Ron dating Lavender was so Ron would be “more worthy” of Hermione since Hermione already kissed someone but he didn’t. However kissing has nothing to do with whether or not someone is right for you and if you should be together.

Here, the point of him destroying the Horcrux is to destroy his insecurities and symbolize his maturity.

Let’s look at what the Horcrux said “Your mother confessed that she would rather have me as a son”. Harry was dating Ginny so It’s kind of weird for Harry to see Molly as a mother figure, which is partly why he canonically doesn’t. However the sad thing is, this is also pointing out the fact that canonically The Weasley’s treat Harry better than each other.

Ron leaves and they are upset. However This is the final book in the series, character development should be mostly sorted out by now. Then when Ron comes back, While he does help out, we don’t see much of Ron and Hermione having good moments together as they are often screaming at each other for something or need to get out of some crazy mess.

Hermione loses her wand as a symbol of the loss of her individuality, Independence and narrative Importance. (Same with most of the other characters when they lose their wands.)

Relationship problems with Hermione aside, The narrative in general mocks him. Like how When they get their O.W.L grades, instead of saying what he’s good at and passed, it just said “there was not a single O”, like it was a bad thing. Ron also gives in to his jealousy and anger more.

Death/Willing to risk death and Redemption are TWO DIFFERENT THINGS.

To be clear, I understand why Rowling wrote The “Death = Redemption” thing. However the problem is, she treats them as redeemed but she doesn’t write them as redeemed. Here are notable examples of characters who are treated as redeemed because they died.

1. Regulus Black. He greatly admired Voldemort, made a shrine and seemed to actively seek Voldemort out DURING the time when Voldemort was murdering people left and right. So he doesn’t have as much of a case of plausible deniability Like The Slytherins in Harry’s time, other than the argument that Cults sometimes don’t reveal their true colors until you’re in too deep. Not to mention He was marked at 16 years old despite not having death eater parents. We have no evidence that he abandoned his views or felt remorse, other than the fact that Kreacher in particular was harmed. The only sympathetic thing about Regulus is that he was raised in a bad family and was at least nice to Kreacher. Yet he gets treated as redeemed with Kreacher telling the Hogwarts elves to fight in his name as well as The Trio acting like Regulus changed his mind and acting like Regulus only thought it was safer to act like a supremacist.

2. James Potter. He was a terrible bully, bigoted and should be considered a criminal. He has no reasons or excuses whatsoever for his horrible behavior. Even if you consider that Snape was not perfect either as an “Explanation” James never considers that to be a reason and he tormented others as well. His “Redemption” is the fact that he married Lily, which is also problematic, joined the Order and he died when Voldemort came to murder him and his son. However he doesn’t show much, if any, signs of remorse, and I can compare these standards to the death eaters. However post Death, he does appear better behaved at least in Harry’s presence.

3. Severus Snape. He is complicated. He does regret things however, while he has reasons, he spends a lot of the series being highly rude to children and projecting James onto Harry. It’s not until his dying moment that he was willing to understand and accept that Harry is not his father. After that, Snape’s flaws aren’t acknowledged except for when he fights with Lily.

4. Grindelwald. He was an awful person but He died taunting Voldemort, even saying he welcomes death. We don’t see much remorse unless you count that.

5. Sirius Black. He helped James Potter to torture people and he almost got Snape killed, which he still brags about. He is a little more complicated as while he gets held accountable for being rude to Kreacher, he doesn’t get held accountable for his awful behavior towards Snape.

6. Albus Dumbledore. To be clear this Is not a “Dumbledore is evil” post. However he was bad earlier on and even in the present, he continues manipulating people and risking others “for the greater good”.

7. Kreacher. Kreacher is a little more complicated as he did become nicer but he was extremely rude and willingly contributed to deaths of multiple people, and he attempted to have children killed. What I think is interesting about Hermione’s speech is that nearly word for word, these are the same type of essays made to defend Dudley and Draco, both of whom are much younger.

Also let’s look at characters who get demonized for not dying.

Pansy? Even though she never attacked anyone or supported violence unless the person was an attacker, she gets treated as worse than everyone else. Granted, she did consider telling about Harry’s presence however she did it with the intention of saving everyone else.

Draco? He gets frequently mocked and criticized for surviving even though the heroes do similar methods to survive. Not to mention he survived better than the Trio did as unlike the heroes, he didn’t kill anyone in his surviving.

Ron yells at him for being a “Two faced” jerk when he pleaded with the death eater However the death eater appeared to have cornered him when he was unarmed and by himself. If he did try Fighting, Like the narrative acts like he should have, he would have died quickly for nothing and not only that, but as soon as Draco dies, the death eater would quickly move on, then kill somebody else/find The Trio and then They would have at least 2 less helpers. (Especially since Colin snuck back and got killed, with it being unknown what happened to the death eater who killed him.)

So If anything, Draco’s pleading was far more helpful, than it was Harmful, which is zero. It’s honestly sad and childish that Rowling treated it as something bad. Or as I strongly suspect, She didn’t think the situation through much and realize that If Draco did try fighting, it would have caused more harm than good.

(Question. Why on earth was the death eater trying to kill Draco? And who were they? This needs more investigation. It was well known by this point that The Malfoy Manor was Voldemorts base. Or is it because Draco doesn’t like their actions and Voldemort suspected he befriended Harry?)

It’s ironic how Characters who overall behave better than the ones mentioned above get treated as worse just for surviving. Not to mention the fact the others did it too and in a worse manner.

Mr Lovegood sold the Trio out in order to try to keep his daughter safe. Harry also pleaded with a death eater, which resulted in a death, and Lily pleaded with Voldemort himself.

The Hallows and The Horcruxes.

The Hallows existence and how they work is a retcon.

The Elder Wand and other wands supposedly Transfer Ownership/Mastery if the owner loses a fight or even gets disarmed. However there were lots of times when Characters lost fights without any evidence of losing control over their wands. According to this rule, Harry should have had control over Draco’s wand since Order of the Phoenix or even Half Blood Prince. Unless it only counts if the owner loses their wand and doesnt get it back but this has never been stated.

The Resurrection Stone: I can’t find anything that contradicts its use however why doesnt Harry get cursed like Dumbledore did? Is it a One time only curse? And why didn’t destroying the Horcrux destroy the curse alongside it, or did it but it was too late to cured Dumbledore? Edit, Also why didn’t Fawkes cure Dumbledore?

The Cloak: While it was always stated to be an old cloak from James, Nobody considered this to be weird or unusual for an invisibility cloak, instead it was only stated that they are rare. Additionally while it was complimented in the past, It has never been stated to have more powers than any other invisibility cloak and the compliments can easily be dismissed as them being rare.

Who has the 3 items in the books is meant to be an irony as the owners do the opposite of what the items intended purpose was, until Harry got all of the items. Additionally they are supposed to symbolize Voldemort, Snape and Harry respectively.

Moving on to the Horcruxes:

There was foreshadowing for several books on them existing. But my problem is that the pattern, if there was indeed one is off and inconsistent.

The Diary was destroyed by Harry. Perhaps a symbol of innocence though arguably most of the times he fights, he has the option of leaving things alone and he does often seek the bad guys out, hoping to fight them. Alternatively it shows how both Harry and Voldemort started out similar, but their paths diverged.

The Locket was destroyed by Ron to symbolize wizards who didn’t agree with Voldemort. (Fittingly it was Slytherins locket.)

The Cup was destroyed by Hermione to symbolize the humans and Muggleborns who were hunted down. (Fittingly it was Hufflepuff, who believed in Equality.)

Harry was destroyed by Voldemort himself, to symbolize that he is his own worst enemy and if he hadn’t become a murderer, He would have been able to come back as a ghost. (Though the idea of him being evil because he didn’t want to die is still messed up.)

However this is when the pattern breaks.

The Ring was destroyed by Dumbledore to symbolize Voldemorts teachers, however Dumbledore never liked Voldemort much and saw right through him quite early on.

The Diadem was destroyed by Vincent Crabbe, to symbolize Death eaters who were often either loyal out of fear, the cult system and/or get mistreated as well if they displease Voldemort. However Heres the thing, DRACO and HIS PARENTS were the ones who were acting out of fear and were getting mistreated, not The Crabbe’s. So shouldn’t using Draco be ideal? I’m not saying he should have joined Harry, far from it as by this point, the Trio would only be bad influences. But still according to the logic and pattern, Draco should have been the one who breaks a Horcrux, especially when he had more built up.

Unless it’s meant to be an Irony that the one who needed the Diadem the most, broke it however even that doesn’t work as there isn’t much irony in the other Horcruxes breaking.

Also I am going to talk about Harry’s methods of getting the Cup. He used the imperious curse on a Goblin and brainwashed another who were just doing their jobs just because someone told him to and he wanted to break into Gringotts. Doesn’t this sound familiar? It should. This is what Draco did the previous year. It was wrong then, so it should be wrong now. What’s especially worse is that we don’t know if/when they were ever fully cured.

The Epilogue.

Ron is angry and takes his frustrations with Draco out on Scorpius despite it being almost two decades since he last seen or heard anything bad about the Malfoys. You know who this sounds like? SNAPE. It was wrong when Snape did it so it should also be wrong when Ron does it, especially since Ron did it worse since at least Snape never actively encouraged bullying unless Harry did something while Ron doesnt have that, seeing as all Scorpius did was just look at them. It wasn’t even described as a mean look. If anything, Scorpius was probably confused.

Following on that, Ron defeating the Locket Horcrux was supposed to symbolize his maturity as well as being against Voldemort’s ideals. However what is mature about encouraging bullying, brainwashing humans to cheat and taunting/teasing children about disownment and anger when it comes to their decisions on who to like and which house to be in? This sounds an awful lot like Stuff Voldemort’s death eaters would do. (Granted he wasn’t very serious about disinheriting them and admitted Hermione was right but still.)

Then When Draco naturally isn’t impressed after watching how Ron was just bullying his son, He gets treated as rude and conceited.

Despite the franchises theme being “Blood doesn’t matter” We see the next generation doing callbacks to their parents. Not to mention Harry’s generation has to remain being their parents son/daughter. The only exception being Neville who became a teacher at Hogwarts which mostly happens offpage. Even in Cursed Child, Neville is never shown or mentioned as a teacher, only a member of Dumbledore’s Army.

As of this epilogue, It’s officially confirmed that The Good guys don’t want Equality, they were only fighting because Voldemort and the death eaters were killing people, including them. The very fact that neither Ron nor Harry sees anything wrong about brainwashing a human, even joking about it says as much.

Overall, The Trio have finished their transformation into becoming the type of people that they used to hate. They are now officially acting like Bad Guys since they went from being horrified victims, to passive observers to active participants when it comes to prejudices. (And starting from Half Blood Prince, they began antagonizing people unprovoked.)

We also see zero evidence on page that Hermione ever restored her parents, who she should not have brainwashed.

Did Ginny have ANY say in her kids names? And when, if ever, did she start liking Just Harry? The fact that she was dating others when Harry became unpopular doesn’t help matters.

Teddy dating Victoire is kind of weird. Harry is his godfather, while Victoire is Harry’s and Ginny’s niece. Not to mention, It’s not like Harry and Ginny were mostly absent in Teddy’s life and only see him on holidays because Harry mentions they saw Teddy and had dinner with him frequently. Even if they only felt friendship, Teddy and Victoire were raised as practically cousins for as long as they were both alive. (I would not be surprised if Child Teddy even used to see Harry’s children as his brothers and sister.)

Because I am tired of seeing the argument/defense that they were more than just Bullies and/or better than Snape or Draco because they weren’t bigots, I am going to clarify that they were indeed bigots.

First Let’s clarify what a bigot means because it seems that people only remember when it’s convenient for them.

A Bigot is someone with unreasonable attachment to particular beliefs, especially one who is prejudiced against or antagonistic towards others for Being a member of a certain group or having different views.

We all know what The Slytherins prejudice is but let’s see if the marauders count as Bigots with this definition.

Confirmed Prejudices.

The marauders have made fun of Snape and disliked him for the following

1. Wanting to be in Slytherin.

2. Having emotions.

3. Having hair that they consider to be “Greasy”.

4. Having a nose that they don’t like the appearance of.

Snape gets frequently insulted for these frequently by multiple members of the marauders.

The first one definitely sounds like Anti Slytherin prejudice. The second is likely a reference to the stereotypes about how Strong Boys aren’t supposed to cry. The latter two are appearance based and what he was born with. The last one does definitely sound borderline racist.

So, yes, all things considered, I think it’s fair to call The marauders prejudiced bigots. Not having prejudices towards one category of people doesnt mean you aren’t prejudiced against others. Take the Malfoys, they don’t hate Half Bloods yet they still hate non magical people.

Also People get misconception that they aren’t prejudiced because they didn’t use slurs against non Purebloods and befriended Remus. However Have you forgotten how they treated those people?

Lily: Bullied her friend for years, and in James’s case, tried blackmailing her into dating him and threatened to hex her in a weird way that sounds manipulative.

Remus: In Sirius’s case, he betrayed Remus by using him as a murder weapon and continued being insensitive towards Remus, he also began suspecting Remus of being a death eater over the others.

Stereotypes and Bigotries.

As always, Ableism is present. The Prime Minister has a point. He should decide who works for him. I understand that they want him to be safe and secure, and that Humans won’t be able to put up much of a one to one fight against wizards. However they should have discussed this together, earlier before Kingsley was assigned to him.

Additionally by this time the statute of secrecy should be over, unless They believe Humans will go back to hunting Witches/wizards, in which, that implies they secretly agree with the death eaters.

Sexism and Classism undertones.

In general, Tom Riddle is depicted as much less sympathetic than his abuser. He’s stated to be a rich jerk and we are supposed to pity Merope when he naturally ran away from her. We are supposed to feel sorry that he didn’t want to raise Voldemort even though he didn’t want him in the first place and he would likely be reminded of his trauma. (Kind of like a Snape and Harry situation.) Furthermore considering the time period, even if he wanted to, news of Voldemorts birth likely didn’t spread far. Not to mention That he had no reason to believe Merope wouldn’t harm him again.

Merope is treated as the main sympathetic one. She came from a poor family and was mistreated. Her father calls her a traitor for liking Tom Riddle, even though She was likely only attracted to him because she wanted his life/money. However she had forced Tom Riddle to be with her, and I think she even realized it too since she named Their son after him. (Though arguably she also chose Marvolo after her father.)

Furthermore Romilda Vane used a love potion and this gets glossed over and treated as a joke. Fred and George sell love potions and this is ignored.

Not to mention, The Lovegoods are treated often as conspiracy theorists and even Harry barely tolerates Luna at times.

Racist undertones.

I should have mentioned this earlier but Kingsley does have an unfortunate name. His first name Kingsley seems to have come from Martin Luther King Jr. However his last name can make people think of racism due to the suffering they suffered.

There’s also how Harry dumped Cho and Ginny split with Dean so that they could be together. Cho gets treated poorly in general. Dean’s father abandoned him and his best friend is Seamus, an Irish kid who blew stuff up and Bill used to work at Egypt.

Then we have Blaise Zabini and Rowling couldn’t resist implying that his mother kills people.

Draco Malfoy’s Framing and Double Standards.

Throughout this entire franchise, Slytherins and especially Draco are always at the receiving end of double standards and always receive the short end of the stick. However This book mostly belongs to the Slytherin. Everything goes back to them and we finally started seeing Slytherins other than Draco/Snape and occasionally Pansy having dialogue.

Rowling hates Draco so she takes every chance she can to mock or criticize him. However the problem is, it doesn’t work well under scrutiny.

“Draco is too prideful and conceited to ask for help!” All of the previous books had Draco be demonized or be made fun of whenever he wants/gets help Meanwhile The Trio gets praised for trying to take matters into their own hands. So which is it? Is asking for help bad and not getting help is good? If that’s the case, Draco is right for not getting help and he’s clearly “learned” from his mistakes. Also Harry was too prideful to report Umbridge’s actions.

“Draco was too privileged and needs to learn humility!” Arguably while at Hogwarts, Harry is far more privileged than Draco was. Not to mention, Draco almost never used his privileges irresponsibly other than his time as a prefect and member of the Inquistral Squad. Even then, Harry and his allies do similar stuff. In this book, Ron even steals an item that Hermione confiscated.

“Draco is lashing out at Snape and that’s bad” Draco has legit reasons to distrust Snape; He witnessed Snape raising a wand against Harry and how Snape might have helped get Lucius Malfoy arrested for a crime he didn’t commit, which was kidnapping Sirius. Also Harry lashed out at Snape When he was grieving too and unlike Harry, Draco didn’t have any good people to calm him down and explain things. Instead He had McGonagall humiliating him and he doesn’t understand Snape was being watched too.

“Draco was often using his father to get special treatment!” Exaggeration. He was attacked and humiliated many times, but he only threatens to tell his father when his life is in genuine danger. (Hagrid, Barty Jr.) While He was bought onto the Slytherin Quidditch Team, Harry was bribed on Quidditch and at an early age first so it was fair and most children complain about things they don’t like when they are with their family no matter how little the family might like it.

“Draco should have trusted Dumbledore or The Order!” We have seen multiple times that Draco tries to be nice to the teachers and trust them but it always fails and he gets humiliated at best, his life in danger at worst. Why should he trust them now when it never worked before? They are Also hypocrites. As we can see, Draco did consider when Dumbledore finally stopped ignoring him. Furthermore Harry’s fighting now caused more deaths and he doesn’t express remorse for it, instead Harry continues to brag and smirk. So how is Draco supposed to believe that Harry won’t get more people killed by fighting?

“Draco got the dark mark” That was Because Voldemort went to him and also because of The Orders Negligence. They got rid of Lucius, who kept Draco away from Voldemort and then upon hearing the news of what happened, McGonagall only humiliated Draco and said he should be outside and said that it was a happy day. Dumbledore also knew fully well that Voldemort was angry. He should have had Draco be checked on sooner in the 5th book or the ministry have Draco sent to live with Tonks or Andromeda.

“Draco tried using the Cruciatus!” So did Harry, who did it First and more. Who knows what Bellatrix could have told him. (This is why Draco shouldn’t have been ignored for so long.) Additionally Harry’s incompleted curses were shown to be more powerful. Not to mention it was in context of Harry already having a history of arresting his father, trying to use unforgivables, stalking him and getting innocent people killed because he was fighting like a Gryffindor. How is Draco supposed to believe that Harry was not going to hurt/arrest him and get more people killed?

“Draco is used to being favored and needs to learn he’s just another student!”. Draco was treated like that for years, as we can see in the books and by Rowlings own admission on his profile, Draco hated his time at Hogwarts since Harry was always being more blatantly favored. Snape never once buys Draco anything, gives him points, special attention or let him cheat until Dumbledore made him in this book. (While he does praise Draco in the first book, that was just early installment weirdness as later Hermione is confirmed to have got better grades.)

“Draco is classist and shallow” Yet he tried befriending just Harry, worked with Filch and now cried to Myrtle. Also so is Harry. Just the previous book, Harry was embarrassed to be seen with Neville, Ginny and Luna. Harry’s logic behind them being cool now is partly because they seeked power. Harry also regularly insults people’s appearances both in the narrative and out loud. Not to mention Ron and Ginny only wanted to befriend Harry due to his fame.

Additionally the Slytherin’s were often isolated and neglected in order to boost and benefit Harry. As proven in this very book, and arguably even Philosophers Stone, if Dumbledore took his eyes off of Harry for just 5 minutes and looked at the series objectively instead of with Harry Bias, Draco might have considered going to them. Especially if he hadn’t spent the last 5 years being relentlessly demonized and made fun of for getting help.

Rowling doesn’t like acknowledging the double standards and does whatever she can to make Draco appear worse, which is probably why His profile skipped over the first time he met Harry and goes straight to the second time as she likely can’t think of a way to somehow make Draco’s first attempt at befriending Harry appear shallow or selfish. (Unless she made a mistake based on the movies again. Since starting from Order of the Phoenix, The movies will get referenced even if it doesn’t make sense and the books contradict it.)

Writing wise. Is Dumbledore meant to be sincere about Draco not being a killer or not? Draco’s earlier attempts did seem to have precautions and he avoids direct violence even though it would be easier. Not helping is that his Pottermore page also supports both. During the conversation, Draco originally doesn’t deny it, and only asked how Dumbledore knew and appeared to be trying to convince himself that he is a killer.

Dumbledore had since Order of the Phoenix to have Draco be watched or cared for yet he doesn’t say anything until it’s too late.

Harry’s suspicions get dismissed, potentially as a somewhat parallel to Snape getting victim blamed and silenced when Sirius nearly had him killed. However the logic was somewhat weak since his friends already were told about Regulus being marked at 16 and that Lucius was no longer around to keep Draco under control.

I suspect that the implication is that Regulus and Draco are the only ones to ever get marked underaged and The Trio spent the previous year being told they were too young. However Meta Reasons, Rowling likely doesn’t want to admit that unless provoked, Draco was often just a cheerleader when it comes to actual damage.

Is Draco meant to be a Manipulated and possibly vengeful Villain or Forced/Pressured One? Both have evidence. In Favor of manipulated, Draco does believe that he and his parents will be rewarded if he succeeds, he does voice that he might not go back to Hogwarts and he does originally appear to brag. In favor of Forced/Pressured, Draco began crying to Myrtle and feared for his and his family’s safety. In general, he becomes uncomfortable when seeing violence and he stops supporting deaths altogether in Deathly Hallows.

I am curious to know how Draco’s and Myrtle’s relationship came to be. Like did she catch him crying one day and comforted him?

Also I was inspired by a different post but What exactly was Voldemort’s punishment to Lucius? 1. That Draco was given a task that Voldemort believed he would fail at and then be punished either by expulsion, arrest or harmed by Voldemort himself. 2. That Draco was marked so young since everyone reacts as though it’s unusual for someone so young to be marked. 3. That Draco was marked at all Because Lucius appeared to not want Draco to get his hands dirty or be involved much.

Snape’s Framing.

Snape is having the question of Can he be trusted or not? Again. This time by most of the characters.

Draco believes Snape is benefiting from His father’s arrest however Draco doesn’t realize that Snape was likely actually being spied on.

Harry is confirmed to have biases against Snape and Harry is officially called the favorite student of Dumbledore’s. (Snape and the students might be jealous of this.)

Snape is stated to have appeared to be trying to keep Harry away from Ginny, however Harry had quite recently risked killing multiple people. Draco directly, Snape Because of the vow, Also Harry himself because the dark mark is implied to be linked to the persons life which is probably how they knew Regulus died and why Harry didn’t see the mark when getting the fake locket. So If Draco did die, the dark mark would have probably died with him. So Harry would be seen as killing because of prejudices and a mistaken belief. Sure, Myrtle is a witness but who would she side with and considering her young age, She likely doesn’t know what spells either were casting did so for all she knows, Draco’s might have been a minor attack while Harry’s was a deadly one.

Question. Was Snape intended as the one who made the order and Dumbledore confront and speak to the Dursleys?

There’s something that I want to point out about Snape’s most notable tantrums.

Most of them are related to Snape’s trauma.

Chamber of Secrets. Harry hurts half of the class so his friend could steal.

End of Prisoner of Azkaban. The marauders get away with endangerment yet again.

Order of the Phoenix. Harry watched his worst memory and then he was caught admitting to cursing Draco, who was wandless at the time and was freshly dealing with his fathers arrest. Not to mention Harry gets rewarded for making things worse and escalating the war.

This book. Harry starts passing Snape’s notes as his own, takes credit for Snape’s genius and starts using Snape’s spells. He even used “Levicorpus” causing Snape to lose it despite it being the least harmful spell. Additionally similar to the marauders, Harry never accepts responsibility for how he caused things to get so awful.

Snape is definitely ambiguous and a hypocrite. He criticizes Tonks’s patronus change despite his also changing, though it’s arguable that’s why he did it as he was reminded of Lily’s death and there’s also his treatment of Draco and Harry. How much is his cover is debatable.

During the year, he has an argument with Dumbledore because he didn’t watch Draco enough. However as revealed later, He did warn Dumbledore about how Draco’s lashing out earlier and how Snape was partly responsible for Lucius’s arrest. I’m kind of with Snape on this argument. (I want to clear up a common misconception. The fandom says Dumbledore underestimated Draco, but his problem was actually the opposite: Draco was always expected to behave/think like an adult since he arrived in Philosophers Stone. It’s not until at least halfway through this book that Dumbledore finally started showing signs of seeing Draco as a child.)

I am curious about the detention to Crabbe and Goyle that Draco tells Snape off for giving. According to the vow, he’s supposed to help Draco yet Nothing happened when he caused Draco to not have backup and he was reporting to Dumbledore without problems. So does it mean that the person has to consciously work against the vow for it to kill them? Or Is it because technically The Plan was for Dumbledore to be killed and Draco to not get killed by Voldemort?

Slughorn’s Framing.

Despite what Slughorn claims, he also has biases. When it comes to students who don’t have currently famous relatives or have just one relative with a bad reputation, Slughorn often dismisses. Even when Ron was poisoned, Slughorn couldn’t be bothered to remember his name.

Slughorn has his club and when he picks his favorite students, he allowed Harry to be one despite him not deserving it and over the kids who actually worked hard to deserve it. Harry actually resented Slughorn and tried ditching him whenever he doesn’t want to use him. Harry also cheats in Class, while students like Ron and Draco, did the work themselves and unlike Harry, they actually wanted Slughorn’s attention but get ignored.

Yet, he’s supposed to be our Good Slytherin who isn’t biased like Snape is? Here are multiple favoritism that Slughorn does that Snape does not:

His club full of influencers and Slughorn obviously doesnt check whether or not a family is prejudiced or bad considering he let Blaise Zabini in.

Tries to Get Harry out of detention or at least detentions switched to a different date.

Praises based on who students are related to.

Gives certain students special attention.

Actively encouraging hexing/bullying/cheating. (Question. Is this Why so many of his students became death eaters?)

All Snape does is, well Nothing. He’s mostly indifferent to his students. Even Draco almost never received compliments, has to deal with any detention he gets, gets graded fairly and he actually called Snape out for not favoring and putting Crabbe and Goyle in detention. See the difference? Who gets more favored? Draco with Snape or Harry and his friends? (And that’s not even considering that the headmaster favors Harry.) I’m not denying Snape hates Harry but it’s quite hypocritical to criticize Snape for favoring when he does it the least. Even with Quidditch, The Gryffindors acted the exact same way.

That’s when you realize that the reason why Slughorn is treated as more Fair is because HARRY, some of His allies, and Zabini who appears to have a rivalry with Draco, are the students who get favored and when Harry gets favored and gets Draco in trouble, it’s considered alright.

Writing wise, Slughorn had many decades to tip Dumbledore off, he doesn’t need to confess What he said. All Slughorn had to was just say “While Voldemort was in school, he expressed an interest in multiple Horcruxes.”

Also He’s kind of a hypocrite in the students he favors. Considering his background, you’d think he’d want to speak to the Slytherins about what’s going on and would be encouraging them instead of dismissing and pushing them away. (How is that supposed to avoid them becoming death eaters or at least supporters when they have no reason to. Did he learn nothing from the last time he was teaching at school?)

Draco’s Plans.

Draco’s plans involved poison, cursed objects, using the vanishing cabinet, sneaking death eaters into Hogwarts and using Unforgivables. Quite interestingly There’s not a single thing on This list that you will not find a “Hero” that did it.

Using Poisons? Fred and George. They sell love potions at their store. Also Hagrid got his venomous dragon which bit Ron.

Cursed Objects? Fred and George. They tried locking Percy up in a potentially cursed pyramid.

Using the Vanishing Cabinet to cause trouble? Fred and George. They stuffed Montague inside it, endangered him, he was gone for a while and had to apparate to save himself. Even then, he had to be looked after and nearly died. This happened just because Montague docked points. Yet They were not held accountable and Hermione was told not to tell anyone. If she did speak or had Fred and George not done it, Draco wouldn’t have been able to use it.

Sneaking Bad guys into Hogwarts? The Weasley’s often brought Scabbers to school though to be fair, they didn’t know he was Pettigrew. However Dumbledore definitely knew about Quirrel, Lockhart and Draco yet often left them alone.

Using Unforgivables? Harry.

Even for attempted murder, we also have Sirius Black who did it willingly and still brags about it in the present instead of accepting responsibility for his actions. Additionally Fred and George showed no signs of caring about what happened to Montague and Hermione was hoping the Centaurs would deal with Umbridge, with them thinking whatever they did funny.

In comparison, Draco interestingly enough, despite Harry nearly killing him and being a key player in the chain of events, Draco became more sympathetic towards The Trio. Even when facing Dumbledore, Draco does look when he hears a yell and was pleased by Dumbledore’s words until he began insulting him again.

Lavender Brown’s treatment and Ginny Weasley’s treatment.

They honestly should have better writing.

Lavender has been mad fun of and at the end of many “jokes” since the franchise began.

Philosophers Stone and Goblet of Fire? Weasleys call to her and make dumb jokes.

Prisoner of Azkaban? Hermione dismisses Her bunny’s death and She is mad fun of for liking Divination despite many of the predictions being true.

Order of the Phoenix? She is still mocked for liking Divination and now Firenze, who Hermione insulted.

This book, She Spends being mocked for liking Ron. Unlike Hermione, Lavender openly flirted with Ron and expresses interests in the things he likes. Yet Hermione is more “suitable” for Ron because Hermione isn’t as feminine and wouldn’t be as clingy. Not to mention Ron dated Lavender at least partly to get back at Hermione for being with Krum.

With Ginny, She was often ignored in Prisoner of Azkaban - Goblet of Fire. She goes back to being an extra in Deathly Hallows.

During Order of the Phoenix, she started dating and this gets pointed out but the thing is, is it really much more than anyone else?

Harry? Got together with 2 girls within 1 year.

Hermione? Liked 3 different guys in the same timespan as Ginny.

Cho? Had 2 love interests within 1 year.

Speaking of which, about the advice that Hermione gave Ginny, I can’t help but wonder if Hermione was trying to project her issues with Ron onto Ginny and Harry. Since around the same time, Hermione was with Krum because Ron wanted to dance with a girl more pretty than her and than Ron was getting jealous and insecure.

Ginny became more tomboyish in order for Harry to like her.

Ginny is also kind of hypocritical since she doesn’t like Fleur because she’s with Bill even though she was currently fighting with Ron because of her dating. (Speaking of which, I could have sworn that there was a line in Order of the Phoenix where She informs Ron that Shes dating Dean.)

Stereotypes and Bigotries.

As always, Fatphobia is present and Harry himself is bodyshaming Dudley out loud.

Following on that, the Good guys also have prejudiced and bigoted beliefs. Hermione calls Firenze a Horse despite the fact that he was an ally who did nothing wrong. The characters are still prejudiced against Slytherins. Hermione is becoming even more distant with her parents and she actually ditches them twice, one of which looked like a last ditch effort to bond with her and it was one of the few times she went home during the holidays.

There’s always double standards in the different genders. X is only bad if This Gender or a Slytherin does it.

Just like with Lucius, Vernon’s caring about his wife and son is demonized And How The marauders treated Snape is somewhat downplayed since their victim was a male. Now there’s Umbridge who is very feminine, evil and is compared to a toad, Cho and her friend get treated badly. Lavender gets mocked as usual.

Cho gets treated horribly the whole book. She gets mocked and compared to Umbridge for being feminine, mocked and criticized for grieving as well as her friend Marietta exposing Dumbledore’s Army.

The Slytherins and ambitious characters still get treated poorly. Even though The Order had similar beliefs in how they wanted their side to have good jobs.

Percy and Marietta’s Framing.

Percy and Marietta are often treated as unsympathetic jerks.

Percy had been mocked by his family for years and often emotionally neglected by everyone except Molly. By the Weasley’s own admission, they started the fight and they used insensitive logic. Not to mention Dumbledore really was preparing Harry to fight Voldemort and Dumbledore did often treat Harry differently, he’s no longer hiding it.

Really. Dumbledore’s logic for giving Ron the Prefect badge is because he didn’t want Harry to have it instead of complimenting Ron. Also unpopular opinion but Harry does not deserve the prefect badge. Harry regularly fights with teachers and disrespects adults. He even resented Grubbly Plank for just being a better teacher than Hagrid is.

With Marietta, she doesn’t get much attention and I don’t think she even has one line of dialogue. She had reasons to distrust and resent Harry. We Don’t even know for sure if Cho’s explanation for Marietta is correct. Unlike the other girls, She stayed loyal to Cho and was there for her while she was grieving.

Marietta has “Sneak” as a lesson to keep quiet but you know who also had Words carved on someone’s mouth to teach them a lesson about being quiet? UMBRIDGE.

Umbridge and Her Squad’s Framing.

Umbridge is cruel in her punishments and is incompetent in only allowing the students to read. Her Squad are also jerks. However they weren’t exactly wrong about Hogwarts not being a good school. People get endangered every year while Harry and the Gryffindors often gets favored.

This is more manipulative writing, as well as spiteful, by villainizing and mocking characters who point out the problems, it gives off the impression that the wrong behavior/actions should be accepted. Additionally that the people who criticize the franchise are wrong.

Draco wasn’t wrong about the giants being too dangerous for Hagrid to handle or him being incompetent. (Side Note. This is the last year where Draco would be taunting information to the Trio. Interesting.) When he becomes a member of her Squad, there’s literally no reason why he and the other Slytherins shouldn’t side with Umbridge. They were neglected, were scapegoats and were demonized since the moment they stepped into Hogwarts. Especially retroactively.

Even here, Lucius gets arrested but the Order failed to speak to Draco about everything and make sure that Voldemort wouldn’t target him. (It is canon that Draco got his task because Voldemort hunted him down and ordered him.) Additionally The Gryffindors hate How they dock points Even though they were the ones who started it.

The Gryffindors, Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws ALL laughed at how Dumbledore humiliated The Slytherins with the House Cup despite them winning fairly. Then in Chamber of Secrets, fingers were pointed at them or their skills when it was actually a Gryffindor and The Gryffindor’s did provoke them at times and Gryffindor got a last minute win again.

Also throughout the whole franchise they do similar things yet it’s only a problem when it’s the Slytherins but more often than not, The Gryffindors do the wrong action First. Whatever it is, you will always find a Gryffindor that did it first or more but was not held accountable.

Not to mention The Gryffindors Heroic actions can have horrible consequences for everyone, including themselves.

To be clear, I’m not saying the Gryffindors didn’t have good intentions or were wrong to want to stop bad guys but in Philosophers Stone, Quirrel would have never had a chance of getting the stone if Harry didn’t go, and in here, by the Orders own admission, The death eaters wanted to keep a low profile. They started becoming more publicly active and murder crazy again partly because Harry refused to keep to himself. Not to mention Sirius ended up getting killed because they went.

Harry and Dumbledore’s Army should have fought more like Slytherins instead of like Gryffindors: Do things subtly, hidden, stay quiet, leave things to the Order and remain in the sidelines. If they did that, None of Half Blood Prince would have happened and several injuries and deaths could have been prevented.

Dudley Dursley/James Potter and Draco Malfoy.

Draco is supposed to be seen as like Dudley and James. They do have some parallels but different contexts and styles that unintentionally made Draco appear better despite intending to make him seem worse. Dudley and James have more in common with each other than with Draco. Even when Harry compares Draco to Dudley in Philosophers Stone, the parallels fall apart within a few chapters as if anything, Harry is the one who gets spoiled and Draco evidently failed to convince His father to break the rules for him.

Dudley’s parents were ordinary people and while they mistreated Harry, they didn’t encourage him to mistreat others unless that behavior is normal at Smeltings, which to be fair, it might be because they have sticks as mentioned in Philosophers Stone. Dudley actually lies to his parents about what’s going on. Dudley was allowed to do anything he wanted growing up and was entitled even to his own parents, from them accepting his poor grades and making excuses for him, to them reluctantly accepting him befriending Harry. Dudley actually beat people up and terrorized them himself.

James, we don’t know much about his parents but they were not child abusers or bad guys. However it is implied that similar to Dudley, he was spoiled and enabled. Also like Dudley, he terrorized people himself and actively went around looking for victims and using similar excuses. He and his friends attack people in the exact same way that the death eaters did. He also benefited from the series Gryffindor Bias.

Draco was raised in a cult. Draco’s parents are bad guys themselves and he wants to be like them. Draco’s style is mostly verbal bullying and taunting his victims about bad stuff that he usually didn’t cause. He usually wants to go when things get serious and his signature move is to report to the adults around him. This is why hardly anyone took Harry’s suspicions about Draco seriously in Half Blood Prince. Prior, if Draco was given a task, Draco presumably would have dumped it on Snape or his parents.

(The fandom might get annoyed but 5th Year Harry would have also found the idea of Draco being a dangerous death eater to be ridiculous. In fact, Harry himself saw Draco as more likely to be a deserving victim than someone who would do death eater actions)

Draco was also disciplined when he doesn’t meet the standards of those around him and as of this book, his mothers side is the type of family that will disown you if you don’t fall in line. He also suffers from the Slytherin Slander.

Sirius Black’s and Kreacher’s framing.

Throughout this book, Hermione and Dumbledore believe that Sirius should have been nicer to Kreacher and Sirius gets blamed for not being nicer.

Sure, Kreacher might have been more willing to tolerate them and might not have gone to The Malfoys or The Lestranges. However Kreacher is extremely rude, even to people who are nice to him. So it makes sense why Sirius would resent Kreacher and tell him off.

Hermione would justify Kreacher’s rudeness by saying he was taught to speak that way. However so were the death eaters and their children. Yet they don’t make excuses for them, and Kreacher is the oldest one.

Additionally Dobby was stuck with the Malfoys and Draco’s complaining, yet he does not go around being a blood purist. Though this is explained by The Malfoys hating Dobby. But if that’s the case, why is Sirius impressive for turning his back on his family’s crazy ways since we do see that Walburga and Sirius have a horrible relationship and According to Sirius, he was often told that Regulus was a much better son.

Writing wise, why were the Malfoys nice to Kreacher when they were not nice to Dobby? (Dobby does heavily imply ALL of The Malfoys mistreated him, not just Lucius.) Is it because of Kreacher being with the Order? Or did they “learn” from Dobby? Another question is, why didn’t Sirius get rid of Kreacher earlier or The Order do more work to keep Kreacher from getting information? (Though it’s possible that the former was because Sirius at some level does accept Kreachers presence and believes Kreacher won’t find another place to go.)

Harry Potter is officially promoting Toxic Masculinity.

Cho deserves better. Her implied love interest Cedric died and all of her friends except Marietta abandoned her. It makes sense for her to be upset yet Harry mocks her and actually threatens her into submission. It being wrong to cry is literally one of the worst things that you can ever teach someone.

Not to mention Her only remaining friend is the one who reported Dumbledore’s Army and then Cho gets judged for wanting to understand why Marietta did it and staying loyal to her friend?

James Potter is literally the type of guy that parents warn their children to stay away from. He tries blackmailing Lily into dating him. He threatens to hex Lily in a manipulative way. Sure, it is arguable that Lily threatened to attack him first However He is speaking weirdly. “Don’t make me hex you”

With Snape, He committed one of the worst crimes.

Yet He and Lily eventually get together and we don’t see much evidence of him changing or regretting how he treated Snape. Sirius and Lupin even admits that James continued bullying Snape behind Lily’s back.

Additionally The marauders nickname for Snape, Snivellus, is a combination of Severus and Sniveling, mocking Snape for how he would cry at times.

Stereotypes and Bigotries.

In here, Rowling does manipulation to try to make the readers ignore that Tom Riddle Sr was a repeated victim of The Gaunts instead of the other way around. Before they even have one single line of dialogue, They are declared jerks without any problems other than they were killed using the Killing curse and made them rich so that the audience would feel even less sympathy for them and more for their abusers.

I don’t know if Rowling was already planning the “Merope drugged Riddle” reveal but she does continue with this style even after it’s revealed, and she treats Merope as though she would be a better parent that would teach Voldemort Love, than the Riddles would have been and The people at the orphanage.

Rowling did a similar tactic in Chamber of Secrets where The narrative frames Millicent as an awful bully when she attacks Hermione after the Trio hurt half of the class during Potions. She uses this type of framing a lot with the Slytherins as well as even Dudley.

That being said, moving on to the rest.

Rich = Spoiled Brat stereotype is used here and is brought up with the insults (snobbish, rude) as though being rich automatically makes someone a bad person.

As always, Ableism is present. Humans are referred to as “Muggles” which is an insult that means Foolish or Gullible. And “Squib”, which is an explosive device. They are still often treated badly, even by the Good guys. Starting with the previous book but even more evident, we see Hermione actively drifting away from her parents.

Sexist undertones. As usual, only The Grangers and the bad guys have Marriages with mostly Gender Equality. As usual, Fathers loving their children is bad and we rarely see Mothers depicted negatively.

Misogyny. As usual feminine characters are repeatedly mocked or demonized. Also many of them seem to dislike each other. Fleur, The only female Triwizard Champion, is shown being made fun of and needs help rescuing her sister because she couldn’t do it herself. Plus as mentioned, only bad guys have mostly equal relationships. Females who aren’t mothers are depicted negatively.

Misandry undertones. As mentioned above, Merope gets treated as more sympathetic than her victim, Tom Riddle. Not to mention it’s often downplayed when a male is the victim of harassment.

Double standards in Morality between The Gryffindors and Slytherins. When Draco is tortured by Barty JR, it’s treated as funny and The Good Guys repeatedly mocked him for it and Hermione is seen as justified for capturing Skeeter and blackmailing her. Meanwhile when Draco taunts them back when evil stuff happens to them, it’s wrong and evil. Additionally The Good guys get away with bigotry too and attacking people who can’t attack back. (Granted, Fred and George did get scolded for how they treated Dudley but still that was just one time.)

There’s still Fatphobia and now The Dursleys went on a diet as Dudley gets compared to a whale and later, his redemption starts.

Many of the Bulgarians and French People are mocked, insulted and framed negatively.

This applies more to the movie version but There’s also undertones in how Durmstrang the “Dark Arts” school appears to be Males only while Beauxbatons, the School with “Pretty” people, is female only. However even in the book, the only Durmstrang characters that get attention are males and the Beauxbatons characters that get attention are females.

The Quidditch World Cup.

This event needs its own section.

This story takes place in the 1990s, long after Ireland gained independence. Yet Fudge, the British minister, is shown representing Ireland. (Just goes to show Rowling was already ignoring/disrespecting others rights.)

The ministry is shown regularly attacking and brainwashing Muggles for being in their own location even before The Death Eaters attacked. Before anyone says “Statute of Secrecy!” First off, it should not exist and Secondly, If the Wizards didn’t want humans there, than they shouldn’t have picked a location that belongs to humans.

Following on that, The Trio and the Weasley’s are hypocrites. They are disgusted by the death eaters attacking yet they had no problems When it was the Ministry doing it. Sure, the exact actions are different but it’s essentially the same concept: Attacking Humans just because they are there and because they can. Not to mention the fact that they made fun of Draco when he was tortured by a death eater.

Hermione treats Crouch as wrong for freeing Winky and in general Crouch is often treated as unsympathetic. However Winky did allow Barty JR, a known Death Eater, to be free and set up the dark mark after convincing Crouch that it would be alright. Furthermore Crouch had no way of knowing whether or not his son was among the death eaters Attacking people. I’m not saying Winky isn’t sympathetic; She is relatable as everyone makes mistakes and is wrong sometimes but It does make sense why Crouch would scold and free her since most people would be annoyed at a criminal being allowed free. Who is to say that Barty Jr won’t cause trouble again? And Crouch was proven right.

In general, Hermione is mocked for wanting to help the elves and help them get rights.

Ginny is shown being concerned about Quidditch moves even though later, she is revealed to secretly be practicing.

Minor criticism but Narcissa has a flower name, and has blonde hair like her husband and son, likely because She wasn’t always intended to be related to Sirius. However bigger criticism is Why were Hermione’s parents not allowed to come with her?

If not before, definitely at this point, Lucius should have started to warn Draco and Narcissa that Voldemort would be furious with their family and Draco should distance himself from the others. Lucius is well aware that Voldemort would be angry because he left like the other death eaters. (Following on that, Draco should have realized that something was up when his parents wanted to leave early.)

The attacks that the death eaters use, flipping someone upside down and in the air, we also see Harry use and see as a prank spell in Half Blood Prince and the marauders use in Snape’s Worst Memory during Order of the Phoenix. (Guess who the forgiven heroes are?)

Molly Weasley is allowed to show up and watch Harry perform in the Triwizard Tournament yet she can’t watch the World Cup with her WHOLE FAMILY? (And people wonder why Ron feels insecure and Voldemort taunts that Molly would rather have Harry as a son.)

Both The Weasley’s and The Malfoys got tickets to the Cup through Nepotism but it’s only awful when it’s the Malfoys even though the Malfoys helped a larger amount of people, which included The Weasley’s themselves.

Draco does tell the Trio that Hermione could get attacked and uses it to scare them. While this was absolutely wrong, Ron is stated to have said something gross first and Hermione had previously helped Harry + Ron disguise themselves as Crabbe and Goyle and they got changed during it.

Molly continues believing Rita Skeeter’s nonsense despite what she wrote about Arthur.

The In universe discrimination framing.

Hermione does tell people off for how they treat Elves but she is repeatedly mocked because “They like it.” Ron says they aren’t human and later Hermione agrees, saying Elves think differently. I have heard that they are not based on slavery, and instead based on creatures who do like helping out but will fight back if they are mistreated.

However the trouble is, Hermione straight up uses “Slave”. So therefore we need to also consider slavery since The characters themselves do it.

Later on, Hermione, despite being a Rights Activist, will continue being dismissive towards Centaurs and will keep becoming more and more distant from her parents.

The Prejudice against Slytherin is barely treated as wrong.

As mentioned even the Good guys expresses bigotry towards humans.

Draco states that Durmstrang doesn’t allow People who come from human families. This is the closest the franchise ever got to Them facing discrimination other than some insults behind their backs.

This was a good opportunity to have it be stated that schools like Hogwarts accepting people like Hermione and Colin is an exception and not the status quo. However Draco and in general, the narrative implies it’s the other way around, and that’s it’s actually Durmstrang NOT allowing muggleborns is the exception rather than the status quo.

Harry Potter’s framing and Hagrid’s framing.

Here is the Classic “Is Harry Potter Privileged or Not?” Question.

In favor of “Yes” we have

Harry is rich and keeps getting more. While he does give away his Triwizard Tournament earnings, Harry barely touched them and Cedric, who he was expected to share with, died leaving Harry with all the money.

Harry is famous.

Harry gets favored by multiple teachers. He gets to own an expensive broom early and chosen play Quidditch over the kids who actually tried out, and last minute victories.

In general, the narrative has Gryffindor Bias where something is only bad if a Slytherin does it. Not only that, but The Gryffindors usually do the Wrong stuff First.

The Weasley’s treat Harry better than they treat each other.

As of Half Blood Prince, Harry has a House Elf and 12 Grimmauld Place.

Harry gets attention from important people like the Minister and is able to give interviews.

Dumbledore, the Headmaster, often gives Harry special attention and even implies that he felt Harry deserved the prefect badge but didn’t have enough time or too much problems. (Harry even got used to being favored and Ron gets surprised when he gets acknowledged because Dumbledore often only gives Harry attention. Even Draco became braver and pleased when Dumbledore gave him attention because he’s so used to only Harry receiving it.)

Meanwhile in favor of “No” there’s Harry lost relatives during the first war, gets mistreated by the Dursleys and some People bully him at school. He was also marked by Voldemort.

Whether or not His problems make up for his privileges and make him not actually privileged is up to interpretation.

What I think is interesting is that Harry is using his backstory as a reason why he’s not privileged when discussing Ron, another child who lost relatives during the first war and another Family who is mocked for their appearances. (While They werent his parents, Ron’s uncles did get killed taking out death eaters.)

Not to mentioned, as this book reminds us, Neville is also an orphan and he doesn’t have most of Harry’s privileges or attention.

Moving on to Hagrid: At this point, it’s proven that Draco is far from the only one who doesn’t like Hagrid’s teaching and Harry starts becoming furious when others don’t like Hagrid.

Why would Draco and his gang make up a lie about being bitten by a Flobberworm and use discrimination when they can use the dangerous Screwts, how Hagrid gives everyone the same lessons and confess about Norberta? Answer: Because It is more manipulative writing to make Hagrid appear more competent than he really is and Draco appear wrong for not liking Hagrid.

The series undermines its messages yet again.

It doesn’t matter what someone is born as, what matters is what they grow to be? If that’s true, What about the following:

Why is everyone forced to remain in their parents shadow? (Draco, Most of the Weasleys, Harry with both of his parents, Dudley, Neville somewhat, even Sirius who was a lot like His family despite hating them.)

Why is everyone who tries overcoming Their upbringing demonized or dismissed? (Percy, Barty Jr, Ron when he gets jealous. Snape. Somewhat Draco as while he often supports violence, he rarely participates and eventually grew a late conscience.)

Why is almost everyone who breaks free from their houses stereotypes demonized? (Percy, Pettigrew, Zacharias.)

Why does the series promote Toxic Masculinity? With Being emotional is treated as something that is bad or pathetic and all genders get demonized If you they don’t conform to enough stereotypes? (Bellatrix, Draco, Myrtle, Rita Skeeter, Snape, Lockhart, Percy.)

Why does the series ignore or hate Feminine characters? (Lavender, Parvati, Cho, Marietta, Ginny prior to Order of the Phoenix, Umbridge.)

Why was it stated that Harry has to be mistreated in order to avoid him becoming a spoiled bully?

Why does the franchise have so many stereotypes?

In universe, Why do the characters express bigotry and treat people differently based on the way they were born and what house they were sorted into?

Stereotypes and Bigotries.

The stereotypes and bigotry from the previous books continues. But now we have Cho Chang and Remus Lupin.

Even ignoring Cho’s name, She is a stereotype: An implied Asian character Being in Ravenclaw, the house of Smart people. She stayed loyal to Marietta and justifies Her actions by saying her mother was working in the ministry. She is also very feminine.

There’s also unfortunate implications in How she and Harry break up in favor of Harry being with Ginny. She honestly deserves better writing. Harry likes her just because she is pretty and they barely even speak to each other. Then Her implied crush or boyfriend Cedric died. Then she loses almost all of her friends except for Marietta who gets treated terribly. And Harry doesn’t like her crying or being feminine.

Onto Remus Lupin. Werewolves were supposed to be an allegory for HIV/AIDS. However the only good one is Lupin, who hates himself and the sickness doesn’t turn you into a dangerous monster. Also Later, Greyback specifically targets children.

In general, feminine behavior is still treated as bad. Trelawney and everyone who Believes her is treated as a joke or wrong despite the fact that most of her predictions are correct and they are cruel while doing it. Hermione Even dismisses two deaths; Not caring much about how Ron’s uncle died and insensitively told Lavender that she couldn’t have dread her bunny dying while she was crying just to get Lavender to stop saying Trelawney was right.

Hermione is treated terribly. Because she is designed to be super academic to justify her existence she signed up for everything, making her tired. Hermione also gets into fights with Harry and Ron the whole year For having Crookshanks and for reporting the Firebolt. Even though the latter was the responsible thing to do.

There’s still the Fatphobia and interestingly enough, Marge wasn’t entirely wrong about James. Blondes are still treated poorly. Ordinary People are still treated badly, and Vernon was right, the news should have reported where Sirius Black escaped from so they would know if they are in immediate danger. (Granted, Sirius might be able to apparate but still.)

I saw someone else point this out but There’s also double standards between Fathers loving their children and Mothers loving their children. When fathers do it, it’s often either dismissed or demonized. (Lucius in most of his appearances, somewhat Vernon and even James. While for mothers, it’s usually treated as nice.)

Survivors are still treated poorly and it’s hypocritical.

Peter Pettigrew and Voldemort with being outright villains. Draco is somewhat as Harry occasionally sympathizes with him in regards to Voldemort, he is often still treated badly even if Harry is fine with it. With Marietta, Cho feels sorry for her but the rest, including Harry, were angry. Pansy is ambiguous as She was told off.

However They were not the only ones doing it. While angry, Sirius considered caving when Snape threatened him. The School Governors caved when Lucius threatened them and they aren’t demonized for it. Lily Potter pleaded with Voldemort and even Harry pleaded with Peter at one point. Mr Lovegood sold the Trio out when Luna was in danger. Neville and Hermione freaked out when Snape threatened to have Trevor consume Neville’s potion.

Buckbeak’s execution plot and Sirius Black.

Draco seems a little out of character here: While he is arrogant and good at performing starting from the previous book, Draco is usually not very reckless, bold or brave when dealing with anyone or anything that is more powerful than him. So why would he risk being attacked and possibly killed? Additionally Draco is supporting death yet again even though he later becomes upset with it. (Side note. It’s interesting that Draco repeatedly made it clear that He wanted Hagrid Fired, not that he wanted Buckbeak Executed. So whose idea was the execution?)

Lucius Malfoy: He previously and recently threatened the Board Governors so why would they listen to him now? Shouldn’t Lucius Malfoy be in trouble? Unless it’s because Draco shouldn’t be held responsible for Lucius’s actions but as the kids pointed out, Buckbeak was one of only times Hagrid is somewhat responsible. Additionally after giving away the diary, Lucius Malfoy should not want to speak much to other death eaters, and should be telling Draco to distance himself away from their children since things became nasty when it came out.

I think a better idea for Buckbeak’s almost execution is using a different kid who is more reckless or crueler. Alternatively just have The Trio convince Hagrid that Buckbeak needs to help Sirius.

With Sirius, I will admit that when I first read, I was 100% sure it was Sirius who was the bad guy so I suppose the job at making him look suspicious was good. However thing is, Sirius isn’t innocent, he just wasn’t a death eater.

Even as a minor I was horrified by the victim blaming going on, which I will get into. Sirius really did deserve to be arrested. He nearly killed Snape, was an unregistered animagus, betrayed Lupin, helped make a map that spies on people, helped James torment Snape and Regularly let Lupin out of the shack.

Now for the Slytherin Slander in this book.

Draco was injured and sent to the hospital wing. As Draco’s head of House, Snape likely heard about Draco’s injury. It’s reasonable for Draco to be allowed to be late. Not to mention, ALL of the teachers allowed Draco to go on faking, so why are we specifically targeting Snape?

As we saw, Harry did end up late when Snape was substituting for Lupin, and as we can clearly see, Snape didn’t put Harry in detention like Harry believed he would. Snape more or less told Harry the same thing he told Draco, telling them to get down. The only difference being that he docked points from Harry since unlike Draco, Harry wasnt attacked and Harry was being disobedient.

Snape is bad for threatening Neville’s toad but McGonagall also has animals be used in Class. At least once, Ron used “Scabbers”. (Side note. Why did Neville bring Trevor to class anyway? I get Scabbers being brought to Transfiguration but how would a toad be “useful” in potions?)

Ron also wishes for Snape’s Death.

Snape is a horrible teacher and yet for the second time, McGonagall mistreated and endangered a child, Neville Longbottom, when the faculty, the Trio and their allies were the ones who did something bad. Neville was accused of letting Sirius Black get his notes when it was actually Crookshanks who did that. Not to mention it would not be needed if the Gryffindors replacement portrait wasn’t changing the password so frequently.

Sirius thought it would be funny to tell Snape about the Whomping Willow and see Lupin transformed. Sirius’s behavior gets downplayed because “Snape deserved it because he was suspicious of wrongdoing, which he wasn’t wrong about.” Snape is repeatedly victim blamed for looking at what the marauders were doing, which was endangering society, and them nearly killing him.

Like usual, The Slytherins aren’t the only ones with prejudices. Ron insults Lupin twice, for his clothes and being a werewolf but he’s not held accountable like it is when it’s Draco.

Draco doesn’t like Hagrid is teaching so he ignores Hagrid’s instructions and gets injured in order to get Hagrid fired. But Isn’t that what Hagrid did to Draco back in the first book? Not listening which causes problems, allowing others to take the fall for your actions and threatening to have them removed from the school? Draco really has no reason to listen to a thing Hagrid says.

Hagrid really is a irresponsible teacher: 1. Regularly Giving everyone the exact same lessons which led to the Flobberworms dying. 2. Assigning dangerous books without instructions. 3. The Blast ended Skrewts. 4. Norbert and he blamed Ron when he got bit. 5. Leaving kids alone in the forest with a known murderer twice. 6. Owning dangerous and illegal creatures like Aragog. 7. He attempted to turn Dudley into a pig and leave him like that. 8. Leaving Hermione and Harry to watch Grawp. 9. He is generally immature and didn’t even graduate.

Finally as we see in future books. Hardly anyone likes Hagrid’s teaching. According to Luna, The Ravenclaws considered Hagrid to be a joke. Lavender prefers their Substitute and Hermione even reluctantly admitted Draco is right. Yet only Draco and the Slytherin’s are demonized for not liking Hagrid, though to be fair, Harry also wants to tell Lavender off for not liking Hagrid.

Draco and The Marauders double standards.

The marauders were bullies who took Lupin out during full moons. Snape investigated and was nearly killed. Afterwards, Snape is silenced and repeatedly Victim blamed While Sirius’s part was kept out and James got seen as a hero despite his motives being questionable. Afterwards, The marauders get forgiven and are seen as heroes. Sirius still brags about it in the present, saying Snape deserved it.

Draco taunts Harry about Sirius, and later in Half Blood Prince, Accepted a task from Voldemort and endangered people. Harry becomes suspicious and investigates. Draco tries cursing Harry and he ended up trying to use “Crucio” while Harry used “Sectumsempra”. While Harry does get punished for attacking Draco and wasn’t believed in his suspicions, when he was proven right, the punishment was lifted and in general, Harry rarely gets victim blamed for targeting Draco like Snape does when he fights with the marauders. Afterwards Draco lives a private life with everyone knowing that he was with the death eaters.

Side Note: There’s also a difference in how Draco and James get Pansy’s and Lily’s attention. Draco said just one stupid insult, got himself injured And pretended to be injured longer. James on the other hand actually torments Lily’s friend.

Let’s look at why The marauders and Draco were endangering people in the first place:

The marauders just wanted to be reckless and have a laugh with Lupin. Snape was not endangering them and the villagers in Hogsmeade did nothing to them. They also had a massive support system. Despite this, They still torment people, victim blame Snape, barely accept responsibility for their actions and by Lupin’s own admission, they enjoyed endangering people.

Draco was raised in a cult and then got a mark which allowed Voldemort to track him. His father was arrested and Voldemort was holding his mother hostage. The teachers often ignored him and often blatantly favored Harry. The Good guys proved time and time again they can’t be trusted. Then he caught Harry watching him confessing to Myrtle in the bathroom.

When Draco tried cursing Harry, He had no reason to believe that Harry was not going to arrest him, and Harry already tried cursing Bellatrix. So from his perspective, He attacked Harry before Harry could arrest/attack him first.

When we do see the Order finally giving him another option and giving him the attention he desperately needed, we do see him considering it and he stops holding a grudge against Harry upon learning more and more what his father did and slowly realizing that Harry was another victim of The war.

So which is more sympathetic? The marauders who act nasty just because they can, had a massive support system and still held a grudge despite Snape never doing anything to them unless you count wanting to confront them for endangering society.

Felix in training still has his magenta eyes and dark colors. However in the intro and ending he has greenish eyes and he’s got white.

We also see Felix at the school but we have yet to see him in the school building.

I suspect that the same episode Felix changes his suit in, we will see him applying to the school.