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Also, don't forget the entire story is about fighting racists who want power to wizards, but only pure bloods.
But Rowling is racist as fuck.
Why write these books? When you clearly are on Voldermort his side in real life?
But the books completely fail to present racism as something that needs to be stopped.
I mean, why is Slytherin still a House? They're explicitly evil and bigoted, and everyone is like, oh well, that's just how they are.
Rowling could have made it make sense. She could have said that because Slytherin's trait is ambition, and people often take that too far, dark wizards tend to be Slytherin, but they can come from anywhere. And also, most Slytherins are actually good, even though that's where the bad wizards tend to come from.
But no, every dark wizard is Slytherin, and every Slytherin is bad.
Snape isn't an example of a heroic Slytherin so much as he's an unbalanced stalker who sides with Dumbledore while still being a terrible person. I could overlook that if even one other Slytherin was good, but they're just not.
Draco Malfoy's redemption arc was the opportunity to redeem Slytherin. Instead it ends without him ever actually doing anything right. His evil plan fails because he sucks, then he gets saved by Harry and everyone's just cool with it.
After all the death and destruction, everyone just goes back to school alongside the wizard Nazis. Because the bigotry and all the things that led to Voldemort just aren't a big deal as long as they stop short of full-on war.
IIRC Professor Slughorn was a decent Slytherin.
Harry didn't meet any good Slytherins during his school years, that's why there weren't any talked about in the HP books. But then his son got sorted into Slytherin.
I personally suspect that she may have been better back in the 90s and 00s, remember she has been chumming it up with brain rotten rich profligates who are fueled by suffering for decades at this point. While she most likely still had shit opinions they probably got amplified over time combine that with the internet and you have a rather toxic concoction. Also on average notable rich people tend to not be the quiet types who keep to themselves funding weird little projects, they tend to go insane like Howard Hughes.
My great grandfather wasn't worth a fraction of that type of wealth and started going through it, though he combated that type of insanity by traveling around the world. Somehow made friends with someone in the upper elements of the Soviet Communist party during that time.
Yeah, when she was poor she had no problems with others, now she's rich she doesn't want peasants living too close to her castle.
Why do I get the feeling she is one of those English clasists that is also a racists who doesn't like people that have the "Wrong accent" or name?
Yeah that's what I mean. They used to be her neighbors, her equals, as she came from being really poor. But now she sits in a very high white throne and people of colour are beneath her.
Oh no I meant she'd be racist to Scots and Irish, but I'm not familiar with English racism particularly well. But I guess she would also be racist against people of color.
Fun fact: I was once called a mutt by an English woman in the high desert here in California. I don't know if it was my bastardized accent or my looks but regardless I flipped her off.
I believe her castle is in Scotland, so she would have a hard time then haha
Hasn't stopped some folks before.