Seamus Finnegan,
Hot take; the reason Seamus Finnigan kept accidentally blowing stuff up was because JK Rowling wanted to be racist towards Irish people…
Comment on Dolores Umbridge was a JK Rowling Self Insert all this time.
my_hat_stinks@programming.dev 6 days agoThe globins follow a lot of harmful Jewish stereotypes but I’m not sure it’s obvious whether they’re intended as racist caricatures or if it’s just bad writing. It’s not unreasonable to assume that though when you put it beside much more blatant examples, such as calling the black guy “Shacklebolt” and the Asian girl “Cho Chang”.
IDrawPoorly@lemm.ee 6 days ago
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 6 days ago
JK leans heavily into things “biological nature” or “Born Nature” as a reoccurring theme. Hagrid is inherently violent and Voldemort’s villain back story being he was a rape baby.
my_hat_stinks@programming.dev 6 days ago
Absolutely, I just meant to point out that there’s far more blatant examples. Goblins have been antisemitic caricatures in fantasy for a long time so it’s easy for a bad writer to just regurgitate existing tropes, so a racist writer can use that as a shield. It’s much harder to justify naming your black character after slave imagery.