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"Harry Potter" is the title of the video, so that's also what the subject line of the post is, despite how... inadequately descriptive it may be. So, to actually describe it, I will include a tweet from Dan Shive here (which is how I came across it).
Long, fascinating look into several questionable things in the HP series, and how they seem to represent the views of the author.
— Dan Dana (@dantheshive) March 25, 2022
Contains at least one contextually relevant spoiler for a late Discworld book during the discussion about house elves.https://t.co/m2JEgoC404
I will also embed some tweets of my own, referring to the one above, which I appended to that earlier Twitter thread.
Hmm... well, I watched this video, and I did not find anything with which I disagreed, so I'm just going to add it here. https://t.co/z7s8pkyaif
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) March 25, 2022
It does go into some real world politics and such, so be warned.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) March 25, 2022
I thought there would be more about the transphobia stuff, but that was barely mentioned, if even that much, I guess because it didn't show up in the books themselves.
So, yeah, while it subverted my expectations of talking mostly about J.K. Rowling's transphobia, it does go pretty in depth into the racism and... rather odd views on slavery... that are present in the Harry Potter books and how those things relate to Rowling's real world politics.
