If youâre literate, youâll be able to tell that JKR was tackling the brainwashing that marginalized groups go through. She was showing how disturbing it is to witness. Those are not scenes to normalize slavery. They are meant to highlight how horrifying it is to see people complicit in their own subjugation. Real slaves frequently convinced themselves that it was normal and okay to cope. But really, itâs clear they are a metaphor for women. Who happily declare themselves menâs domestic slaves and often resist feminism. And of COURSE Hermione got pushback. Thatâs what happens in an unjust society that normalized slavery! We made fun of the girl that passed around environmental petitions in my school. As a piece of context you might not have, and this is the only one Iâll forgive you, is that in the 90s, nothing was less cool than caring. You live in a generation of âactivistsâ. But the 90s was the chill skater/stoner yeah whatever dude era. If you cared about a cause, you were going to face exactly what Hermione did from her peers.
Anyway moving on! I havenât read the books in years but even I remember it was Draco Malfoy, a VILLAIN AND BULLY that made the comment about more kids than they could afford. This is why I accuse you people of being either illiterate or deliberate liars. You mean a bad guy said something MEAN!?? If you want a book where no one is mean to anyone, may I suggest âGoodnight Moonâ?
The fact that you think Molly Weasley is portrayed as âkind and dumbâ means youâre either a liar or you never actually read the books and are just parroting what youâve heard. This is a character that is never portrayed as stupid. She is deeply involved with a dangerous resistance group, and avenged her sonâs death in the last book. As in this âkind and dumbâ character fucking slayed a major villain.
Itâs also overlooking professor Sprout, an intelligent and not especially kind professor.
Most of her worst female villains are very feminine and/or thin. See: Rita Skeeter, Umbrage, Aunt Petunia, Bellatrix
Do you always look at powerful black people in fiction and immediately think âwell he would have been a slave hundreds of years agoâ and then desperately search the text for any possible allusion to that fact? Shacklebolt used to be an Auror and his name is the equivalent of naming him âCharlie Handcuffsâ. Jesus fuck you kids are racist.
Her Irish character was only a pyro in the movies. And even if it happened in the books, he was still blowing up WAY less stuff than the Weasley Twins. He was, even by the least charitable reading, the third most destructive student.
You people used to claim Cho Chang was racist because it was an impossible name. When people pointed out it was entirely possible, now I guess this is what you changed the rhetoric to. Which anti Chinese saying? In what language? Can you even tell me?
âThereâs a lot more in her adult storiesâ but you still chose to go on about her kids books and didnât list a single thing from her adult books. Do you mean the evil cross dresser? That is actually just a cis man that briefly wears a womenâs coat to disappear in a crowd? That one?
Letâs revisit the reason JKR used a pen name in the first place before we cover why the other shit is wrong. See, when JKR wrote her first adult novel it got panned by critics. Several wrote deeply sexist articles about how she should âstick to childrenâs novelsâ.
She used a male pen name and suddenly her books were getting rave reviews! Once again, she faced sexism in the industry and overcame it.
The straw you people are grasping at is how Robert Galbraith is close to Robert Galbraith Heath, an American psychiatrist that did not invent electroshock therapy. He worked on projects that used electroshock to âtreatâ homosexuality. Which was tragically normal back in the 30s-70s while he worked. That was sadly standard treatment for the era and he was not a standout actor. He was also retired by the time JKR was old enough to read and in a different country and not particularly famous. It is INSANE to think she should have been aware of this man.
But for real though. Do you think no one named Percy Jackson has ever committed a crime in human history? If I find a record of someone named Percy Jackson doing a bad thing does that mean the author of the Percy Jackson books is evil???
Anyways this is so long I have to put the other half of your absurdity in another post so sit tight for part 2!