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[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 19 points 6 days ago

I mean, the Malfoys were literal nazis, and she made them clearly the bad guys in her books. Where was the breakdown in her self-awareness that led her down the "racial purity" rabbit hole herself?

[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 19 points 6 days ago

Media literacy is not a strong suit for conservatives, even when it is their own media it seems.

[-] zikzak025@lemmy.world 22 points 6 days ago

Reminds me of Orson Scott Card and Ender's Game. Another person whose political beliefs seem so antithetical to key messages conveyed by their book.

[-] evidences@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago

Yeah especially the sequels, he wrote two further books with Ender that the main message is genocide is bad, like really really bad.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Yeah I just can't with his books or media for the same reasons that people do with JKR.

[-] ratsnake 3 points 6 days ago

Harry names one of his kids after Draco because Draco does one decent thing at the end of book 7 and that is enough to make him no longer be a reprehensible, racist fuckwad in the eyes of J.K. and a lot of her audience

[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 days ago

Don't forget a spoiled nepo baby!

[-] ratsnake 7 points 6 days ago

the whole premise of HP is "what if an orphan living in an abusive household could become a spoiled nepobaby" so i'm not sure JK even thinks of those things as bad

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