It’s interesting how the books never truly question the class consciousness that is at the heart of his backstory.
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usernameless@piefed.social 18 hours ago
In the books, the school putting out a huge feast for the students is supposed to show the stark contrast of starvation and abuse Harry went through prior to Hogwarts. If this is a sign of how little effort they’re putting in I’m thrilled.. Let it bomb and bomb hard. Terfs don’t deserve our time or money
Echolynx@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
subverted_per@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 hours ago
Thats because rowling was writing a story about maintaining the status quo. Its interesting just how much she wrote overtly class conscious inequality, like wizards being an isolated superior class who can act with impunity on muggles, but then hand waves it as appropriate and good because the alternative is “bad”.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
That and a lot of the early books had an editor tweaking things.
Remember when Harry traded some food he bought with Ron even when he didn’t want Ron’s food? Then later he and Ron crashed the family car and Harry couldn’t be bothered to help pay for a new one?
imadethis@fedinsfw.app 5 hours ago
The entire bit about the weasleys being poor was just another example of the horrible writing anyway. Remember how a metric crap ton of the ministry of magic employees commuted to work? Floo powder. Remember what they had just laying around at home in the burrow? Floo powder. If the weasleys were supposed to be way below the level of others, it wasn’t shown very well in random moments, just the ones where the author was deliberately making that the point of the scene.
At best, arthur’s choice of transportation was because of his obsession with muggle stuff, but if it was supposed to be another example of their poverty…
If I’m being really charitable, the biggest thing that was going for the poverty/wealth divide in the magical world was where you lived. Castle/urban/picturesque = rich, while countryside/rural/cottage type = poor. But let’s not discuss the ‘magical villages’ because their details were always incredibly vague.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
BuT iT crEaTEd a GenERaTiON oF rEAdeRs!
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Yeah, I’m down with criticism of the revising author, but they really did make some solid movies back in the day.
tempest@lemmy.ca 18 hours ago
It won’t bomb unfortunately.
As much as Twitter and Reddit are up their ass about JKR her bullshit tends to remain only in those spaces. Most people don’t know she is a shitty person.
Frozengyro@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Considering how many of those who complained about Reddits enshitification the last 5ish years are still on it… I’m sure they will also be bitching about JKR and still watching the show.
Absolute_Axoltl@feddit.uk 15 hours ago
They’ll all watch it so they can pick it apart meme by meme. But it’s ok, a hate watch doesn’t count.