[HPforGrownups] Re: The secrecy motif/magic & muggles

[Kathryn Lambert]

No: HPFGUIDX 179985

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  > > a_svirn:
> > It's no more hypocritical than having a born slave to serve you a 
> > sandwich. In real life it would be hypocrisy to say that there 
are 
> > men and women whom Nature has ordained to serve you a sandwich. 
In 
> > the Potterverse it would be hypocrisy to deny that elves' very 
> nature 
> > is to serve. 
> 
> lizzyben: 
> 
> And why, why, why would JKR create such a world? 

a_svirn:
Search me. 
   
   
  ***Katie: In my opinion, it's sloppy writing, too many plot devices without thinking about the consequences, and way, way too many interviews without guidance. 
   
   
  I truly, truly do not believe that JKR meant for these racist and prejudicial belief systems to worm their way into the story, but she also never stopped to think what she was doing by creating a whole race of people who were genetically superior to another. I sincerely believe that she didn't even really think of them in those sort of sinister terms. She simply saw Wizards as the main characters, and Muggles were like comic relief. Unfortunately, she made the books about prejudice and tolerance and then violated her own rules. 
   
   
  As far as the relationship between Gryffs and Slyths - it's another regrettable decision that I think was rushed and not considered properly. I wish that had turned out differently. I think the books would have been infinitely more powerful and would have come out with a profoundly different message if Slytherin and Gryffindor had reconciled and become allies. Alas. 
   
  Katie


       
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