I'm gonna start a series called: How aroace friendly are pieces of media?
I will start with book series, that I read when I was younger and then switch to movies and shows, that I watched more recently.
I'm trying to explain everything so that everyone is able to understand my point without having to have read/watched it.
Please correct me if I say something offensive, ignorant or factually incorrect! And of course you can suggest me things to add or what I could judge next.
Let's start with the reason I got the idea:
Miss Terf is an awful person for a lot of reasons and the books are full of shit
Obviously no canon representation
The main villain’s (Voldemort) backstory is that his father was under the influence of a love potion when he slept with Voldemort's mother
A lot of people (me included before anon corrected me) interpreted that as him being born without the ability to love, which made him evil
In canon he grew up without love (mostly because his family is shitty) and thus became evil
Love potions in general (even though they don’t make “real” love)
The main message the author wants to bring across is: Love always wins
= all main plot points are solved because of love (platonic, romantic, family)
Romance serves as solution for people's problems & internal struggles (e.g. Remus Lupin & Tonks, Draco Malfoy & Astoria Greengrass)
Every main character ends up with a romantic partner at the end
Even characters that didn't got a romantic plot in the actual series got one on Pottermore (Wiki where the author sometimes adds facts and stories) later (e.g. Minerva McGonagall, Albus Dumbledore, Luna Lovegood)
Don't even get me started on Snape (teacher at the school the main characters attend)
He's an awful person who projects his own problems onto literal children's and makes their life hell
But suddenly he's a good guy because he was in love with main characters mum
These quotes: "Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and above all, those who live without love."- Albus Dumbledore
"The old argument," he said softly. "But nothing I have seen in the world has supported your pronouncements that love is more powerful than my kind of magic, Dumbledore." -Tom Riddle
Romantic relationships are not portrayed as more important than the friendships
It’s for children so there is no sex
