There's the Gringotts bankers being a grotesque antisemitic stereotype straight out of Nazi propaganda, there's the racist caricature character names, there's the fact that only one character in the entire wizarding world is against slavery and she drops the subject forever after everyone makes fun of her for it, probably other shit I'm not remembering right now..

[–] index@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There’s the Gringotts bankers being a grotesque antisemitic stereotype straight out of Nazi propaganda

If it's like in the movies this sound like a stretch, pretty much every fantasy has something like this

there’s the fact that only one character in the entire wizarding world is against slavery

Isn't dobby being freed from his slavery and help herry one of the main event in the story?

[–] Hexbatch@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

In my head canon: Dobby was killed by the author because he was the one elf to reject slavery.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

"uppity little fucker!" -- Rowling's internal monologue

[–] index@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

Why would you think that? Dobby is one of the best characters in the story, he was freed from slavery by Harry and he gave his life to save him

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Normal fantasy stuff like species representing racial stereotypes and slavery (yeah I don't get why it's "normal" in fantasy, she also did it worse then most others)

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

I would go so far as to say that most fantasy works that have slavery have either a "The world is an awful place everywhere, at all times, in all things" tone, or a "Slavery is BAD" tone. Whereas Rowling went for "Aktually, the slaves are happy and you shouldn't try to help them"

[–] index@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago

So are you making an argument against all fantasies?

[–] germanatlas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 months ago

Shaun made a good Video about the bigotry and liberal naivety of the Harry Potter series (including some pointings to her other works)