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UGH “HATSUNE MIKU WROTE HARRY POTTER” I SWEAR TO GOD YOU CANNOT DIVORCE HARRY POTTER FROM THE RACIST TRANSMISOGYNISTIC ANTISEMITIC AUTHOR ITS IN THE TEXT STOP DOING THIS SHIT
before yall go “where is it” here’s a few examples off the top of my head!
racism: the entire spew story arc wherein jkr writes about her slave race that loves slavery and hermione is considered weird and to be causing harm by trying to end said slavery
transmisogyny: girls are allowed in the boys dorm rooms, but boys are not allowed in the girls dorm rooms. this becomes incredibly insidious when you know what her beliefs are
antisemitism: every description of snape, the entire existence of the goblins, “goldstein”
you can look up any of these things for more details i am not going into it the point is stop trying to “divorce” works from their creators when it turns out they are bigoted, because their views are definitely there within their works and especially when these messages are being taught to children it’s harmful to pretend these things aren’t there and that the media should be consumed uncritically “because miku made it”
loathsomespider said:
worth mentioning that rita skeeter is extremely trans-coded in goblet of fire, a book that is primarily about characters deceiving others with their appearances
Bonus that often gets overlooked: when asked if there were any autistic characters in her books on twitter, she responded that there are no non-magical disabilities in Harry Potter because wizards cure everything with magic (yay, eugenics!). The characters who acquire magical disabilties in the books, namely Lockhart and the Longbottom parents, are institutionalized for life.
this goes over a lot of american readers’ heads but the entire character of seamus finnigan, the one irish kid who’s always blowing shit up all the time and also has a deadbeat/absent father (DEAN THOMAS THE BLACK KID ALSO HAS AN ABSENT DAD), and is written by an english woman in the nineties, is extremely telling of rowling’s unexamined prejudices.
also all of her work is incredibly hateful towards fat people. at best they’re pathetic, like neville, and at worst that fatness is overtly reflective of their inner ugliness, like vernon, dudley, and umbridge. she takes a couple half-hearted stabs at showing that handsome people can be bad, like lockheart, and ugly people can be good, like moody, but in general she uses physical ugliness to mean that someone is morally wrong.
she was also tremendously kind and supportive of the white actress who played luna lovegood, but didn’t bat an eye over the black actress who played lavender brown getting swapped out for a white girl the year lavender dated ron.
she’s always been prejudiced.
roach-works:
vtmb2spoilers:
lesbianlinkle:
lesbianlinkle:
lesbianlinkle:
UGH “HATSUNE MIKU WROTE HARRY POTTER” I SWEAR TO GOD YOU CANNOT DIVORCE HARRY POTTER FROM THE RACIST TRANSMISOGYNISTIC ANTISEMITIC AUTHOR ITS IN THE TEXT STOP DOING THIS SHIT
before yall go “where is it” here’s a few examples off the top of my head!
racism: the entire spew story arc wherein jkr writes about her slave race that loves slavery and hermione is considered weird and to be causing harm by trying to end said slavery
transmisogyny: girls are allowed in the boys dorm rooms, but boys are not allowed in the girls dorm rooms. this becomes incredibly insidious when you know what her beliefs are
antisemitism: every description of snape, the entire existence of the goblins, “goldstein”
you can look up any of these things for more details i am not going into it the point is stop trying to “divorce” works from their creators when it turns out they are bigoted, because their views are definitely there within their works and especially when these messages are being taught to children it’s harmful to pretend these things aren’t there and that the media should be consumed uncritically “because miku made it”
loathsomespider said:
worth mentioning that rita skeeter is extremely trans-coded in goblet of fire, a book that is primarily about characters deceiving others with their appearances
Bonus that often gets overlooked: when asked if there were any autistic characters in her books on twitter, she responded that there are no non-magical disabilities in Harry Potter because wizards cure everything with magic (yay, eugenics!). The characters who acquire magical disabilties in the books, namely Lockhart and the Longbottom parents, are institutionalized for life.
this goes over a lot of american readers’ heads but the entire character of seamus finnigan, the one irish kid who’s always blowing shit up all the time and also has a deadbeat/absent father (DEAN THOMAS THE BLACK KID ALSO HAS AN ABSENT DAD), and is written by an english woman in the nineties, is extremely telling of rowling’s unexamined prejudices.
also all of her work is incredibly hateful towards fat people. at best they’re pathetic, like neville, and at worst that fatness is overtly reflective of their inner ugliness, like vernon, dudley, and umbridge. she takes a couple half-hearted stabs at showing that handsome people can be bad, like lockheart, and ugly people can be good, like moody, but in general she uses physical ugliness to mean that someone is morally wrong.
she was also tremendously kind and supportive of the white actress who played luna lovegood, but didn’t bat an eye over the black actress who played lavender brown getting swapped out for a white girl the year lavender dated ron.
she’s always been prejudiced.
