• kolmaskommentoija@sopuli.xyz
    3·
    3 days ago

    Hermione doesn’t engage with anything traditionally feminine

    She actually does, in the ballroom party thing - a beautiful dress and hair, taking a feminine role as a beautiful lady, and all that. That does not invalidate your point though, since there being a single instance (I could think of), just highlights what you said.

    • Leon@pawb.social
      51·
      3 days ago

      Ah yeah, I’d forgotten about that. Pulled up the book to that chapter, and came across this

      “Can Dobby give Harry Potter his present?” he squeaked tentatively.

      “’Course you can,” said Harry. “Er . . . I’ve got something for you too.”

      It was a lie; he hadn’t bought anything for Dobby at all, but he quickly opened his trunk and pulled out a particularly knobbly rolled-up pair of socks. They were his oldest and foulest, mustard yellow, and had once belonged to Uncle Vernon. The reason they were extra-knobbly was that Harry had been using them to cushion his Sneakoscope for over a year now. He pulled out the Sneakoscope and handed the socks to Dobby, saying, “Sorry, I forgot to wrap them. . . .”

      […]

      Dobby now handed Harry a small package, which turned out to be — socks.

      “Dobby is making them himself, sir!” the elf said happily. “He is buying the wool out of his wages, sir!”

      The left sock was bright red and had a pattern of broomsticks upon it; the right sock was green with a pattern of Snitches.

      “They’re . . . they’re really . . . well, thanks, Dobby,” said Harry, and he pulled them on, causing Dobby’s eyes to leak with happiness again.

      A boy with a vault full of gold, couldn’t give his supposed friend something better than his uncle’s knobbly, “oldest and foulest, mustard yellow” socks. His slave friend appreciates it nonetheless, but like, surely he had nicer socks?

      I can’t with this author. The fact that at the end of all of this, nothing has changed; people’s worth is still determined by breeding and bloodline, the slave race is still enslaved, just kind of makes the entire journey seem pointless to me.

      Oh yeah, you killed wizard-Hitler but the wizard-nazi ideology is not just at large, but commonly practised by everyone, including by the good-guy rich-orphan turned wizard cop and his friends.

      • kolmaskommentoija@sopuli.xyz
        3·
        3 days ago

        That sort of stuff just flew past, when you were a kid at the time. I always hated how the house elves were treated, but never could put it into words… But yeah, the more you look into the series as an adult, the worse it just gets. And that whole quote… y i k e s.

        Fuck Rowling, I hope that piece of trash hits her toes in the sharpest corner.

        • Leon@pawb.social
          3·
          3 days ago

          Yeah. I enjoyed these books as a kid, which makes sense because I was oblivious to the prejudices of society. One could argue that maybe Rowling was too, but given her actions I just don’t believe that.

          • kolmaskommentoija@sopuli.xyz
            1·
            3 days ago

            If she did not see them, and when she finally did, instead of aknowledging bad things as bad, she just jumped head first into embracing the prejudices herself. Either way, it does not paint a good picture of her character.