Hogwarts Legacy - Whimsical Wizardry
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But no matter what, you won't help him get there. Then how would you look down your nose at him?
Go ahead, then; try to convince me that systemic change is undesirable.
It is not systemic change that is undesirable, it is failing to understand how the system you're in, works and what you will be changing it into. People get fixated on just trying to get the plane to take off from the ground that they don't think about how it's supposed to LAND.
This is all still just the face-value interpretation the story presents you with.
Dig an inch further. So the story presents Hermione's efforts to change the system as unworkable, for exactly those reasons, OK. And what does it present as the desirable alternative? Uhrm... changing nothing.
And what is the system itself? Well, it's absolute subservience on the basis of species. In a story chock full of social and political commentary, what parallels or analogies in our own world are closest to that?
So Goblins are Jews, Orcs are Black, this means House Elves are....I dunno dogs? Dogs love serving people so must be dogs.
I'm invested in fiction being okay.
Why are you so invested in treating a fantasy as real life?
Because there are too many people that do and take it far worse than, what @Buyetyen is doing. There are people out there that can, have, or will use fantasy to justify their racism, sexism, or slavery. There's nothing new and let's not pretend otherwise.
But that isn't the fault of a creator. Fandoms take shit too seriously all over the place, it's the nature of fandoms in general and not the fault of the creator who, most likely, doesn't have some super villain master plan at work.
Friend with dietary benefits?
Why does there NEED to be a solution? We argue about real world problems with no solution that everyone can agree on. Why is it wrong for Hermoine to see something as bad but try to fix it in a way that fails to do so and for the House Elves to genuinely be mistreated and need to be helped while also not WANTING to be helped? That's a complicated issue, but like most things that aren't the main plot, it doesn't get a full investment. That doesn't mean JK Rowling SUPPORTS SLAVERY! You CAN'T cover all the themes and stories that come up in a book. And if you clap back with "Well why bring it up at all?" Because it makes the world feel more real. It enriches the experience to be able to see moving parts in a clock tower doing their thing, even if you won't get a chance to understand what all of them do.
Depends on who we're talking about. Robert E. Howard, HP Lovecraft, Frank Miller, and even Dr. Seuss say otherwise. At least Dr Seuss regretted many of his earlier works, and ordered that his estate never released the books ever again to the public. Plenty of alt-right conservatives in Klan members got pissed off with that one. Don't even get me started with Fox News. They're not hiding history either. They admitted what happened, but they no longer want these works released in the public. Fine by me.
You can go on about how all these books were part of their respective time. But it still doesn't change that they showed anyone that is black or a dark skin color, to be mindless savages or slaves to interdimensional beings that should be shot down or put down. Rowling I wouldn't exactly call "innocent" in this. She's doing it subconsciously. It's a matter of whether she realized at some point or not. She knew what she was doing at some point.
Yes, there are toxic parts of fandoms, and while this doesn't happen as much anymore, it can still happen. The only difference is most people with sense, don't bother with the garbage.
No you're not. You're just knee-jerk protecting something you like.
If you think that's what I'm doing then you're not paying attention and just want the critics of things you like to shut up forever.
Bad writing is. Biases are. You're all about coulda, not shoulda.
If it's a complicated issue, then stop demanding surface-level takes from everybody. Also, I would not hold up the wizarding world as a stellar example of literary worldbuilding. The whole thing is held together literally by magic. It's the ultimate handwave.