• Tabitha ☢️[she/her]@hexbear.net
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    7 months ago

    I think you could make a credible argument that some of the Harry Potter books are worse than the movies. The best example that comes to mind is making fun of Hermione for wanting to free slaves, and the other characters claiming being slaves is in their nature or something. If you had only watched the movies instead, you’d get to see the slaves are miserable, most of the good team characters don’t own slaves, and Harry Potter tricks a slave owner into freeing their slave.

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      7 months ago

      In the later books Harry gets a slave and doesn’t free him but its ok because the slave is rude.

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        7 months ago

        Jk rolling made some really strange decisions. Some of it really makes you wonder if maybe she was being a little too honest or just too unaware to see the implications.

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        7 months ago

        Kreacher really wants to be a good slave, he just wants to be a good slave for the bad guys. So it’s okay to abuse him, see?

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      7 months ago

      I know that I was almost an adult when Harry Potter came out, but I really tried to get into them as everyone else loved them, but the writing was flat af.

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      7 months ago

      and Harry Potter tricks a slave owner into freeing their slave.

      That happens in the books too. He only does it because the slave owner is a mean slave owner, though, not because slavery is wrong.

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        7 months ago

        The thing is that Rowling hadn’t really thought it through yet. Having the hero save a slave is pretty clearly heroic and good, and it’s a nice way to wrap up the Dobby story arc, but then the fans were all like “wait WHAT!? there’s slaves under Hogwarts!?” and she was forced to think it through, and it turns out JK’s pretty awful so the result of her thinking it through was to make it worse.