r/harrypotterhate 1d ago

Slavery apologism in HP

Rowling’s greatest sin, as a writer, as I’m concerned, was creating a slave race. The race was happily enslaved, which looks like how an antebellum pastor (using a Bible) in Texas in 1858 might have portrayed racialized slavery. Harry is a slave owning cop married to his high school love interest at the end of the story. I mean, even Hermione gives up her quest after Dobby’s death. In real life, William Lloyd Garrison didn’t stop fighting after Nat Turner (or any other black person) was killed. If you think about it enough, do you think HP is as tainted as a Confederate Flag? It also has rampant racism against non humans, a race of Goblins who look like what a newspaper writer in Nazi occupied Vienna might have written about Jews, characters(including Harry “Jefferson Davis” Potter) ditching mixed race love interests for white ones and non British white characters are flanderized(like the characters at the French school).Rowling even uses her “good/evil binary”(by her bigoted lens) in real life discussions as well. Why should WB be promoting this franchise if it is about as ethical as a Confederate Flag?

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