Hello, a necro-post to say thanks to the OP and I agree here with many things said, that's amazing to find a place to read analyses of the story. It's very frightening that some people blindly eat every justifications Rowling throw to whitewash her "hero" and story(she tells things instead of showing WHY Harry and co are supposed to be the better side and WHY we should root for them). She clearly don't understand how systemic discriminations and institutionalised racism works, or if she does, she uses discriminatories discourse and tools to portray the so called good sided characters more than the bad ones (who btw became more caricatures of what she supposedly wanted to denounce and therefore less frightening that the good ones who become exactly what she wanted to denounce and in a realistic way !!). I remember that I became more and more unconfortable with the books as far as child, until the 6 where I couldn't see anymore why I was supposed to care that Harry kill Voldemort when anyone and everyone was a nasty piece of shit and that nothing would change about all the problematic themes the author introduced. I was so upset it took me one year before the decide to finish the serie by reading the last one book (and sometimes I wish I didn't especially after reading part like how Harry belittle Hermione torture trauma and risks she face because of her statu, and how he enjoy to "rightfully" torture an enemy and how he is litteraly praised for it).
I'm a strong believer that good or bad actions aren't supposed to be decided upon the good/bad actions of others (otherwise it's just hypocrisy at its finest coupled with immaturity and inability to take responsabilities. Circumstances explain, but don't excuse) but upon own personal moral beliefs we hold, and how the person react after a wrongdoing they do to (how they react when they are called about it ? Are they able to recognize their own wrongdoing without pining everything on someone else's back ? Can they make conscious actions to improve themselve ? Can they show this conscious way of facing responsabilities, not only when it personaly impact them (either positively by making them gaining somthing or negatively when it impact their quality of life)but when it impact stranger group of peoples ? In other words, can they show empathy, humility and desire to learn from the peoples first concerned by problems they encounter/create to better themselve. Can they pro actively seeks to learn about their world and how they impact it positively/negatively and what they can do to better it ? Sadly it seems not the case for many characters in HP, which lead to a statu quo from the 1st to last book, and this statu quo isn't a good one. That where Harry and many so called "good" characters felt short in Rowling books (because again, Rowling thinks that as long she write "X is doing good here" any "bad" actions she write to provide plot action/pathos (etc) should be overlooked. But any well aware reader need a consistent presentation of the "moral rules" and to decide by themselve if a character do good/bad deed, and not been told by the author in an inconsistent way that make character does sames acts and not been called in the same way by the narrative. Otherwise it's no more a story but a sort of propaganda or I don't know the word for this sort of writing.)
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Date: 2016-12-17 09:09 pm (UTC)I'm a strong believer that good or bad actions aren't supposed to be decided upon the good/bad actions of others (otherwise it's just hypocrisy at its finest coupled with immaturity and inability to take responsabilities. Circumstances explain, but don't excuse) but upon own personal moral beliefs we hold, and how the person react after a wrongdoing they do to (how they react when they are called about it ? Are they able to recognize their own wrongdoing without pining everything on someone else's back ? Can they make conscious actions to improve themselve ? Can they show this conscious way of facing responsabilities, not only when it personaly impact them (either positively by making them gaining somthing or negatively when it impact their quality of life)but when it impact stranger group of peoples ? In other words, can they show empathy, humility and desire to learn from the peoples first concerned by problems they encounter/create to better themselve. Can they pro actively seeks to learn about their world and how they impact it positively/negatively and what they can do to better it ? Sadly it seems not the case for many characters in HP, which lead to a statu quo from the 1st to last book, and this statu quo isn't a good one. That where Harry and many so called "good" characters felt short in Rowling books (because again, Rowling thinks that as long she write "X is doing good here" any "bad" actions she write to provide plot action/pathos (etc) should be overlooked. But any well aware reader need a consistent presentation of the "moral rules" and to decide by themselve if a character do good/bad deed, and not been told by the author in an inconsistent way that make character does sames acts and not been called in the same way by the narrative. Otherwise it's no more a story but a sort of propaganda or I don't know the word for this sort of writing.)