It's really weird to me the degree to which JKR failed to make wizard adulthood appealing in any way. Every wizard adult you meet really obviously peaked in high school and still wistfully talks about it all the time

@JennyENicholson Yeah and what’s with the amazing wizard powers and no birth control? And yeah severe transphobia. She had wizards, severe bigotry, industrial factory worker repression, misogyny, and abject poverty. They didn’t use magic to improve anything.

@walkswdog @JennyENicholson The slavery is particularly jarring in that context, too. They can literally do any job historically handled by slaves just by waving a magic wand but they still view even this effort as beneath them.

@Exile451 @walkswdog @JennyENicholson It's actually truly disturbing if you think about it. No wonder they left most of the house left story out in the films.

@Exile451 @MariaElenaAdams @walkswdog @JennyENicholson Worse. Its Voldemort, and before him Grindlewald. The magic Nazis. They're horrific, but they're also seemingly the only people ever to look at the system they're in and go "this doesn't work". Which says alot about how the Wizarding World, and by extension JKR, view society.

@LukePilchowski @MariaElenaAdams @walkswdog @JennyENicholson If we’re talking magic Nazis shaking up the status quo, I feel like Lucas did the same thing in the Star Wars prequels, though I don’t feel like he was ever trying to say “This is what we need, some good old fascism”. That POV seems to have showed up more in the later books.

@Exile451 @MariaElenaAdams @walkswdog @JennyENicholson Dont forget the fact that Hermione tried to free the elves, but apparentely they like being enslaved?? Yikes

@jerry_epiccool @MariaElenaAdams @walkswdog @JennyENicholson Yeah that’s… uhhhh… I don’t know how people even begin to defend that…

@clytamnestra81 @MariaElenaAdams @walkswdog @JennyENicholson Oh God you’re right, I hate how accurate that is. Though you might get a kick out of House of Mirth (the book, NOT the movie) which very explicitly calls out its heroine for exactly that kind of thinking. She gives some money to a beggar once and in her head that makes her even.