thinking back about my experience with hp i didnt have the political understanding yet, to notice the injustices that i was not suppose to notice or question and i did not notice that the presented solutions are all kinda non-solutions.
all i saw was that hp fought against injustices like the fantasy nazis and that they liberated this one poor mistreated elf and became friends with the kids who were looked down on, while showing those mean nazi spawn bullies of. in a way hp has the simplistic analysis of good and bad that a child might have. while also being a flawed kid.
There’s a great breakdown on YouTube by Shaun on the Harry Potter books, but one of the things that I like that he points out is that you can basically watch JK’s political stance change in real time as the books progress.
When she started writing them, she was “impoverished” (to some extent she also benefitted from help like living in a place owned by her sister for free), and the story starts out railing against the system and those in power. As the books took off and she began to benefit more from that same system, the plot began to be more about how the system is great and shouldn’t be questioned, but only the right kinds of people should have power. If you’re a Good Guy, you can use the Killing Curse and it’s okay because you’re a Good Guy. If anybody else uses the Killing Curse, then they’re a Bad Guy and that’s horrible. The wizards keeping magic away from the Muggles, a power that could solve many of the world’s problems, is a bad thing at first, but Harry goes on to become a magic cop to enforce that very same ban at the end of the series. There are tons of examples in the story.
thinking back about my experience with hp i didnt have the political understanding yet, to notice the injustices that i was not suppose to notice or question and i did not notice that the presented solutions are all kinda non-solutions.
all i saw was that hp fought against injustices like the fantasy nazis and that they liberated this one poor mistreated elf and became friends with the kids who were looked down on, while showing those mean nazi spawn bullies of. in a way hp has the simplistic analysis of good and bad that a child might have. while also being a flawed kid.
There’s a great breakdown on YouTube by Shaun on the Harry Potter books, but one of the things that I like that he points out is that you can basically watch JK’s political stance change in real time as the books progress.
When she started writing them, she was “impoverished” (to some extent she also benefitted from help like living in a place owned by her sister for free), and the story starts out railing against the system and those in power. As the books took off and she began to benefit more from that same system, the plot began to be more about how the system is great and shouldn’t be questioned, but only the right kinds of people should have power. If you’re a Good Guy, you can use the Killing Curse and it’s okay because you’re a Good Guy. If anybody else uses the Killing Curse, then they’re a Bad Guy and that’s horrible. The wizards keeping magic away from the Muggles, a power that could solve many of the world’s problems, is a bad thing at first, but Harry goes on to become a magic cop to enforce that very same ban at the end of the series. There are tons of examples in the story.
Very interesting, thank you!
We probably think the first contact rules in Star Trek makes some sense. Is HP‘s magic disparate?