Yeah, but later on Harry’s like “I need someone to spy on Malfoy, but I’m too busy. Oh, if only I had a servant to order around. Oh wait a second, I do, I’m a slaveowner! Kreacher, come here!”
Harry also literally watched the government be taken over by fascists and the law turned into an instrument of oppression (as if it wasn’t already), and decided to become a cop.
That boy is just totally incapable of thinking his way through any problem with a moral depth greater than a thimble. Probably because the author is the same way and doesn’t have the capacity to describe a morally intelligent character.
You notice how the books are constantly describing different ways in which wizard society is fucked up, but none of the root causes ever get fixed? Voldemort was born because of love potion rape, but love potions are still legal at the end. He got wizard followers because wizards are eugenicists, but the same people are still racist at the end of the book and have the same power they did at the start. Magical creatures joined Voldemort because they had unequal rights, but they still have unequal rights after he’s defeated. The book ends with the line “all was well”, but it wasn’t. All of the structural problems still existed. The only social change is that the Weasleys aren’t poor anymore, but that’s only because Fred and George did a capitalism. Other people are still poor.
Harry never sought any structural solutions to the world’s problems, because Rowling is incapable of imagining structural solutions. The best she can come up with is writing Hermione’s civil rights movement as a joke. She’s not capable of anything deeper than inappropriate parody.
Yeah, but later on Harry’s like “I need someone to spy on Malfoy, but I’m too busy. Oh, if only I had a servant to order around. Oh wait a second, I do, I’m a slaveowner! Kreacher, come here!”
Harry also literally watched the government be taken over by fascists and the law turned into an instrument of oppression (as if it wasn’t already), and decided to become a cop.
That boy is just totally incapable of thinking his way through any problem with a moral depth greater than a thimble. Probably because the author is the same way and doesn’t have the capacity to describe a morally intelligent character.
You notice how the books are constantly describing different ways in which wizard society is fucked up, but none of the root causes ever get fixed? Voldemort was born because of love potion rape, but love potions are still legal at the end. He got wizard followers because wizards are eugenicists, but the same people are still racist at the end of the book and have the same power they did at the start. Magical creatures joined Voldemort because they had unequal rights, but they still have unequal rights after he’s defeated. The book ends with the line “all was well”, but it wasn’t. All of the structural problems still existed. The only social change is that the Weasleys aren’t poor anymore, but that’s only because Fred and George did a capitalism. Other people are still poor.
Harry never sought any structural solutions to the world’s problems, because Rowling is incapable of imagining structural solutions. The best she can come up with is writing Hermione’s civil rights movement as a joke. She’s not capable of anything deeper than inappropriate parody.