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Emma Evans@trance.bsky.social |
Someone remind me, in JKR's Harry Potter universe when a child who cannot perform magic is born to parents who can perform magic, what happens to them. Oh right, the term for them was 'Squibs' and they were treated with pity and disdain and largely excluded or even shunned from their society.
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Proud Anselmo
@proudanselmo.bsky.social
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I'm still trying to reconcile how she who will not be named wrote several characters who literally can transform themselves into different species, but is somehow bigoted hateful trash. Oh, and the potion that would literally let you become the opposite sex...
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AndersOSU.bsky.social
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I read this and the whole mudbloods thing as “oh, wow, even magical society has aspects that really suck,” when it turns out that Joanne was really trying to say is “actually, Dolores Umbridge is the hero.”
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A Wooloo for all seasons
@mockwooloo.bsky.social
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"Hagrid, Malfoy seems like a bit of an arse" "You see Harry, some folks think your ancestry matters to who you are and that AIN'T RIGHT. Anyway, you're going to be a great wizard like your father before you and his father before him... noble old Wizarding family, the Potters. You're a worthy heir."
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Gregory the A'ight
@gregoryaight.bsky.social
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It's astounding to me, looking back at the much younger man who devoured those novels, how I missed absolutely everything. This fictional tome of forced assimilationism, eugenics, and everything we so clearly see from Joanne at present.
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💢Marx was right.🕊
@paulwalker44.bsky.social
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Sounds like master race shit. She blocked me on Twitter. I’m still proud of that moment. Fck her.
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Bouba O'Kiki
@bleary.bsky.social
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Squibs are a great concept. They speak to a universal fear of shame, rejection, and not living up to societal expectations. Young readers would really connect with that idea. Pity that Rowling had zero interest in exploring this idea other than to say "lol, losers".
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T.C. Aurelius
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Not just that, but it's fair and right and just for them to do so (within the narrative.)
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You’ve Got Ishmael (they/them)
@poisonedpenuche.bsky.social
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Weren’t they forced to go to magic school and go through the motions for their entire adolescence instead of developing into themselves as independent, non-magic beings?
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wishda
@wishda.bsky.social
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Plenty of authors do this to darken and complicate their settings, suggesting that the entire reason for Harry Potter was that this was a kid encountering this for the first time and seeing it as abnormal, a hero from outside who knows injustice. No reason to suspect that it was just her nastiness.
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Windy
@windyspirals.bsky.social
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An anime that parodies a lot of HP details, Mashle, takes it to the logical conclusion and those born without magic are given the death penalty.
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