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[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 172 points 5 months ago

Like many other admirer's of Nabokov's novel of a pedophile who pursues a 12-year-old girl, Rowling loves it for the writing style.

Oh ok, fair enough. Not an especially controversial take.

"There just isn't enough time to discuss how a plot…becomes…a great and tragic love story

Oh…oh no…

[-] BitchPeas@lemmy.world 127 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

She missed the whole point. The great writing is what is supposed to make you realize that you can be manipulative by narrative to condone evils. Stupid.

[-] TheDoozer@lemmy.world 27 points 5 months ago

I feel like George R.R. Martin was doing that with incest. Starts out with shocking incest between twins, and then spend a bunch of books getting you used to the idea until you find yourself reluctantly cheering for a dude hooking up with his aunt.

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 8 points 5 months ago

cheering for a dude hooking up with his aunt.

Which dude, exactly?

Only one example immediately springs to mind, but that hasn't happened yet in the books. And the way it happened in the show, I'm not sure was executed very well, but I don't think it was really portrayed as a case where we "cheer for a dude". He barely seemed into it, definitely not as much as she was.