Wasn’t the Ministry of Magic a neoliberal hellscape even before Voldemort took over? That’s not even subtext that’s explicitly spelled out with characters like Fudge and Umbridge. Obviously Rowling’s personal politics suck ass but the HP books aren’t that bad.
No her issue is with those people because they aren't competent. None of the issues that make the ministry an evil neo liberal monstrosity are fixed by the heroes who enter the government and maintain it. The books suck as political texts.
That’s one interpretation I guess. Even if it was unintentional by Rowling, I thought it was a perfect example of how neoliberalism sets the stage for a fascist takeover. People who shit on the books just come across as contrarians to me. Must hate popular thing so people know how enlightened I am.
It's literally in the book. Harry becomes a wizard CIA agent. They still have slaves at the end. The book ends with Harry wondering if his chattel slave will bring him food. They don't help the muggles, they don't rectify the injustice of their tiered society.
I think the anti fascist angle is a nice thing to get from it but it's not really supported by the text. Riddle is ontologically evil for no reason, he's bad Dumbledore. Dumbledore controls the entire society and can act with impunity. I don't even think all this stuff is intentional. It's just not that deep.
Yeah, okay, but none of that is actually real. At least the books are good about addressing actual social issues, like POC representation with such fleshed out characters as Cho Chang and Kingsley Shacklebolt.
I’ll have to re-read that last chapter I guess. I never really cared for the epilogue anyway. It seemed like bad fan fiction compared to the rest of the series. For the most part the core part of the books aren’t that bad. I agree that it’s not really that deep though. It’s fiction for babies. I just get annoyed with the circlejerk of people piling on it 15 years after the fact. Almost as bad as the people who are still completely obsessed with it. Just let people live lol.
For sure, there's an unhealthy internet thing of just hating stuff, I hope it's obvious I'm not doing that. I actually think the books for younger kids are overall better and a lot of the worst stuff could have been avoided if she just stuck to writing fun mysteries for children. She was pretty good at snarky irreverent kid stuff.
The biggest fans in my life hate the epilogue too, so you're in good company there.
All good comrade. We’re on the same page now for sure.
Did she really publish a hardcover?