It's like that thing where she was all, "Of course Lily was kind of turned on by James beating up on the omega-male geek! You're a woman! You know what we're like!" "Of course slavery is wrong, but c'mon-- you know you really want an inferior race that lives to serve and fawn on you! You're a human! You know what we're like!" Nudge nudge! There's a dark place that these books mine their fantasy from that few, few indeed, have dared to go in the last fifty years or so. And she only dared to go there because she's so.. okay, totally making assumptions here about someone I know nothing about-- but she seems so totally secure in her position as a Good Person that it doesn't even seemed to have crossed her mind that she's writing nostalgically about racial attitudes somewhere down the river of "Gone With the Wind". It's kind of really perverse and fascinating. You could make a list of this stuff-- like how Harry just hates having power and rejects it, and that's why he's this one in a million Good Guy who then goes on to run the wizarding KGB. Sometimes she comes off as one of those people Orwell talks about, who smugly hated Hitler but fell for Stalin because he dressed up the power and cruelty with vague talk about the Brotherhood of Man.
Sorry, that was so off-topic... Ahaha, I still get such a kick out of hating this series! :D
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Sorry, that was so off-topic... Ahaha, I still get such a kick out of hating this series! :D