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Oh look! Yuji's and Kenjaku’s Koganes have matching heart-shaped tails, it's an amazing detail to show their biological connection, Kenjaku deliberately patterned his Kogane to match Yuji’s, linking their Kogane visually, isn't it adorable? Kenny is such a proud mother 😊🥺✨️
And I have a silly headcanon that Kenjaku’s Kogane is Yuji's Kogane mother, Yuji's Kogane inheriting that cute little heart tail from its mom
And now they have matching scars in their forehead too! They're really a mother and a son
Rewatching chapter 4 and listening to this talk between them and Doey's Reminder tape now with the revelations of Chapter 5 hurts.
She couldn't break down in front of any of them as she was Safe Haven's leader but the deaths and pressure got to her. All with the burden that she's the reason as to why things are the way they are and why they had their future ripped away from them by Leith's orders.
And in trying to plead with their dictator, she got imprisoned for nearly a decade.
Slowly going insane with isolation as some form of twisted lesson while the others didn't know where she went. They were never going to find that room. It was only meant for the Ludwigs.
The ones that knew kept that truth hidden in order to break the rebellion down. Harley with his anti Poppy propaganda and Prototype by pretending to be a supporting ally while he hunted, starved and tortured them all with his forces. All while knowing he was the reason why their leader was gone.
Since Poppy wasn't around anymore to guide them and keep them safe, Prototype had no reason to hold back. None of them were Poppy so his hunters could do as they pleased.
And Poppy didn't get to explain things once they were reunited. Didn't get the chance to apologize.
They are gone now.
The last thing Doey heard Poppy say was "Trust me" while Poppy heard Doey's last words being full of anger directed at her and blaming himself.
She failed as a leader and her friends died.
Poppy and Doey's friendship is doomed.
Jonathan Ross is still avoiding accountability months after he shot and killed Renee Good.
If anyone else is interested in this I made a introductory! I mainly post on TWT or TikTok for content but I'll try posting here aswell!
Will Gon be the Main Character Again?
This is a well debated question in the Hunter X Hunter fandom that I see quite a bit. Is Gon returning to the story or is his journey over and we will never see him again?
Gon is undoubtedly my favorite character, so I won't lie that I'm a little bit baised about this topic. However, there is still a lot of evidence that supports my apparent "delusions."
Yeah, someone on Reddit said that I was from TikTok and that I was delusional for believing that Gon would be the main character again. And it honestly annoyed me more than it should have, but I knew they were implying that I was stupid.
But despite that, I still do think Gon will return, and I have reasons on why I think so. So, on this post, I'll be explaining why I think Gon will return as the main character again. I will try to dispute common arguments that I've heard about why people think Gon will not return.
1. The character page in every volume
There is a character page at the beginning of every volume (outside of the first couple of volumes) that introduces characters. In every volume, the characters kinda change for who's more relevant in that volume, but one character that is consistently there no matter if he's relevant or not is Gon. And he's actually referred to as the "eager hero" still even after 5 volumes of not making an appearance.
I brought this to the attention on Reddit, and of course, someone had to say that it's actually different in the original japanese version. So I asked them what it said in that version, and their response was that it was all the same except for the eager hero part. Now I'm not gonna lie. That sounds very coincidental, and I kinda doubt that's true. Like out of all of the descriptions of both Gon and Kurapika, everything is the same except for the first three words? Like, I'm sorry, but that kinda sounds like they made that up. I tried to look up the japanese version of the pages but can not find it anywhere, so if anyone has them, I would very much appreciate it.
However, even if it did not have the line "eager hero," I still feel like it serves the same purpose. Gon is still on the page and is about the same size as Kurapika, so you can't miss him. He's the first one you read about. Not to mention that Kurapika is referred to as Gon's friend. Also, I just don't believe that it's the editors' or publishers' propaganda. Togashi has complete control of Hunter x Hunter, so if he didn't want to include Gon, he wouldn't have.
2. Gon vs. Gyro
This is the biggest reason why I think Gon is coming back. Togashi dedicated a whole chapter of Gyro's backstory and included a vague open-ended question right at the end.
Now, some people genuinely believe that Gyro has either already served his purpose and won't make a return or that Togashi has cut this plot point altogether, so Gyro won't make another appearance. I think these arguments aren't that strong, and I'll explain why.
Gyro has already served his purpose
Like how? I honestly don't understand why people think that Togashi decided to write a whole chapter of Gyro and show him being reborn as an ant heading to Meteor City only to never come back. Like, how is that satisfying at all? And what purpose did Gyro serve if all he did was die and then be reborn if not to make an appearance later?
Togashi dropped this plot.
Listen, this could be the case. I don't know Togashi personally, so I have no idea what his plans are. But I highly doubt they know Togashi either, so where are they basing this from. Literally nowhere. There is zero indication or evidence that Togashi dropped this plot point except for them not wanting Gon to come back. Their only "evidence" is that it's been 10+ years since Gyro was shown. But Togashi took about 10 years writing the CAA, so did they use that same logic with character like Kurapika, Leorio, Hisoka, and Chrollo since they weren't in that arc let alone even mention in it.
Translation problem
Now I have seen someone claim that Viz translated the page differently, so it gave people the wrong assumption that Gon and Gyro are fated to meet.
This is what they claim:
"What the narrator (who in the same arc shows us multiple times that he/she does NOT have perfect knowledge) actually said was something more along the lines of:
"…and Gyro left the city, and whether or not it was fortunate that he and Gon did not cross paths could never be known unless one day they ultimately met."
(A super literal translation is even more cumbersome in English than that, but you get the idea.)
Basically Viz's translator tried to simplify it way too much and ended up making it sound like a prophecy, rather than an ominous close call.
See, that narration that takes Gyro out of the story (we haven't seen him since) is supposed to mirror the visual introduction to post-antification Gyro in the previous chapter… where we zoom out from the restaurant that Gon and friends are laughing at to see Gyro walking right by on the same street. Close call!"
Now I don't speak japanese, so I don't know how accurate this is. But even if it was accurate, I still think that Gon and Gyro are being foreshadowed in the future.
First, Gyro specifically states, "I'll have to start over." That's very vague, and that's definitely setting up something in the future. Second, the narration is still referencing the Gon and Gyro meeting, and that is still a setup.
Also, why would it be a close call? Gon and Gyro literally have no idea about each other. They have no connection. The only thing that Gon probably would notice was that he's a chimera ant, but even then, Gyro's covered up. Gon and Killua would've just walked past Gyro, so why even include this?
3. Gon's nen
It is hinted in Ging and Gon's dialog together that Gon might get his nen back. And I have a theory that Ging will be Gon's next nen teacher. (This theory really has no evidence, I just love Ging, and I want Gon to train under him.)
What is the point of showing this? It's almost feels like it's a conclusion, but not at the same time. It's like Togashi is saying, "This is what Gon is up to right now, so don't forget about him." That's the feel I get from these pages. Like Gon's story isn't over, it's just on pause like Kurapika's was after Yorknew. I don't even know if that makes sense.
4. Gon and Killua
There is still an unresolved issue between Gon and Killua. Gon never got to apologize properly to Killua, mainly because Killua didn't seem to want to talk about it. But also with how Ging told him how to give a proper apology. Gon and Killua need to/should have an in-depth conversation about what happened during the Chimera Ant arc. I have already gone in more details about their separation, so check out that post for more of my thoughts on it. Let's also not forget that Alluka tells Gon that she'll give Killua back once she is done. That's definitely gotta be Togashi telling us that Gon and Killua will meet up again.
So those are the main reasons why I believe that Gon will reappear as the main character again. I don't think the question is, "Is Gon coming back?", but rather "when is Gon coming back?" Please let me know what your thoughts about this are, I would love to hear them.
SWAP hxh cast doodle dump 🤤🤟
Swap Killugon AU <3
Mangakas be like yeah these two same-gender friends are complements in characterization/character traits, symbolism, color palate, and storylines and they have an intensely deep and multifaceted relationship that is not paralleled by any other romantic or platonic connection in their lives and push each other to their limits and breaking points but always find their way back to each other because it is the two of them together in every form until the end of time. But they're not gay though.
Mangakas be like yeah these two same-gender friends are complements in characterization/character traits, symbolism, color palate, and storylines and they have an intensely deep and multifaceted relationship that is not paralleled by any other romantic or platonic connection in their lives and push each other to their limits and breaking points but always find their way back to each other because it is the two of them together in every form until the end of time. But they're not gay though.
Please share the receipts about Harry Potter being a colonial fantasy! Reading stuff like that is so interesting 🙈 have a good day
I’m glad you both asked!
This argument will be divided into threemain parts. The subject of magical creatures in the wizarding world, thesubject of humans other than English wizards, and the subject of Harry’scharacterization in the novels. But before I can discuss the novels andRowling’s (probably mostly unintentional) colonial fantasies, we must look atthe background information of those colonial fantasies. To do that, I willoutline and explain certain elements of the 1800-century cultural and politicalsituation, reflected in the literature of the time. (See! This is why you don’tdismiss history as the unnecessary boring subject Rowling!!!!)
(In this text, I use the word wizard akin tothe universal man, as in mankind. I do this, because Rowling herself does this,referring to unisex groups of witches and wizards as “wizards”.)
Racial thinking in the British empire was heavily influenced by pseudo-scientific theories like phrenology and race classification theory. Humanist sciences like sociology were heavily influenced by “hard sciences” and there was a strong demand to find a scientific justification for the existence of the empire. This justification came with race classification, that was divided into two different equally racist branches of theory. The idea that different human races were actually subspecies inside the human main species, and that these subspecies had evolved to fulfill different functions and behave in different ways. Roughly divided, the Anglo-Saxon subspecies had evolved into a rational thinker and a natural leader, the Asian subspecies into servile and effeminate role, and African subspecies into manual labourer. Now, in order for society to live in perfect harmony, that society has to be built in a way that each human species can follow their natural predilections and follow their species-natural behaviour.
The other branch of scientific sociology argued that all humans had the same potential for civilization, but that all human societies were also in different evolutionary stages. Human societies were seen to evolve in a neat line, from promiscuity-matriarchy-transitional patriarchy-patriarchy. All human societies therefore started from hunter-gatherer tribes and would eventually turn into enlightened British style modern societies. As the British already had reached the top of the societal evolution, it was also their right and burden to protect the societies that had not yet reached this top evolutionary form. It is very important to remember that while the British empire was filled with straight up hateful and vile racists that saw genocide as a fun past-time, there were equally many people who believed the science of the time and condemned the mistreatment of the empire’s subjects believing that the empire was in truth necessary in order to help their less-evolved human compatriots.
Another important note to make about the imperial mindset is how these rational leaders were created; in boarding schools. The future leaders of the empire were all sent to a boarding school, somewhere around the age of 10. These schools, rampant with bullying, pressure and straight up rape, were not places that a young boy was supposed to become a scholar or an athlete; his job was to make connections and learn to become charismatic. Doing too well in your subjects was not desirable, as a book-worm is not what the empire needed. Being good at sports was good, but not if you had to sacrifice time to practice too much. Sports and sciences were there to support the student’s growth into a proper English gentleman, not as an educational goal themselves. Debating, public speaking, and aggressive confidence were much more important skills to master for the future overseer of a colony. Your job as a student in, for example Eton, was to network and grow a stiff upper lip. A terrible educational system for sure, which caused damage to the British psyche that people today are still trying to understand; with Boarding School Syndrome and its consequences important when trying to understand the problems in British politics today
How do these facts then relate to Harry Potter? Well, let’s start working our way through from magical creatures. In the Harry Potter universe, the world is filled with creatures with human-sentience that however do not, at least in Britain, mix with the dominant human population. We know that there are house-elves, working as servants, goblins, working as bankers, centaurs, keeping away in their forest, as do merfolk in their lake. Dwarves were employed as cupids (entertainers) in Hogwarts by Lockhart, and there are veelas that work as exotic dancers in the quidditch world cup.
At first glance, you might think that Harry Potter and Dumbledore are on the side of the creatures. Dumbledore is noted for being a great advocate for non-humans when defending their right to exist, as opposed to the more genocide-minded goons at the ministry. Voldemort is happy to employ creatures that he deems “dark” and ignore the rest. At first glance it would even look like the narrative is advocating for tolerance, and it is, but it is not advocating for equalitybetween humans and non-humans.
The centaurs and the giants have lost their native lands to humans, and have been forced to live in reservations, as most notably pointed out by Dolores Umbridge in Order of the Phoenix. “Ministry of magic permits you certain areas of land.” (p.665) At the same time, the books do not take the time to portray either the giants or the centaurs in particularly sympathetic light from the point of view of our characters and this point of view is never questioned. Centaurs are shown to be violent and even unreasonable towards any humans who would want to have contact with them. Giants are shown to be stupid and hostile, killing themselves into extinction. (Order of the Phoenix p.377) Meanwhile, the races that do mingle amongst wizards all have something to offer to humans who allow them in their society. Goblins are useful to have around because of their hold over the banking industry and their superior metal-working. House-elves are useful as domestic servants. The creatures that wizards label as “dark” are all creatures that do not have any filled role that they can perform for the benefit of humans, (vampires, hags, werewolves), segregated from the wizarding society proper, and are therefore shunned as undesirables. Veelas on the other hand are blatantly fetishized, and they are only shown in two roles in the books. Either as entertainers or as married to wizards. The narrative does not even hint that a veela might have any non-sexual role in the society. It would seem, that all the magical races have either been pushed out of the wizarding community, or they fill some niche purpose in society that the wizards find useful, and that the wizards themselves do not want to perform.This structure of society, built upon the assumption that there will always be creatures fulfilling certain roles for the society, is not questioned by any of our heroes.
Dumbledore is happy to advocate for tolerance, but not inclusion. He is happy to create a dialogue between humans and centaurs- as long as it is not humans who have to make any concessions in their relationship. Same goes for merfolk. Dumbledore advocates for their right to exists in their own segregated patches of land, and in return they will help Dumbledore. Merfolk will allow themselves and their home to be used as obstacles in the tri-wizarding tournament and the centaurs will let wizards traipse through their forest.
Inside the centaur society, we are supposed to see territorial Bane as the “bad guy” and the meek Firenze, who argues that centaurs should take sides in a human war and make defer even more to the wizards. Firenze eventually accumulates into the human society by becoming a teacher in Hogwarts, but only after he has been banished from the Centaur society. Therefore Firenze becomes completely subserviant to Dumbledore, as his own people do not accept him anymore and Hogwarts is the only place he can go. He does not have the backing of his own community that could allow him to make demands towards his human peers, which makes him a good ally for Dumbledore. Firenze placed the needs of humanity above the needs of his own species and that makes him the ‘reasonable’ centaur.
The same happens with goblins. Their prioritization of their own people is at every turn equated with them being unpleasant, unreasonable, and impossible to work with, and when Harry Potter shows the bare minimum of respect- acknowledging that goblins have their own legal system that defines ownership of an object differently than a human would, it is framed as the greatest height of progressiveness that anyone could ever show towards a goblin, instead of the bare minimum. Never-mind the fact that the books explicitly mention that goblins are denied the use of a wand by the dominant human government, and actively have to fight for the rights they have even now, which is neither an interest nor a concern to any of our heroes.
Note of interest is also that most non-humans taking action against the status quo are antagonists. There are no creatures in the order of the phoenix fighting against the dark lord, (Remus Lupin identifies as a human with an unfortunate condition.) but there are several under the command of Voldemort. (Order of the Phoenix p.88) The most positive attitude towards non-humans comes from the heroes who show tolerance towards non-humans, but who also do not try to reach any deeper understanding about non-human experiences in the wizarding society.
The house-elves are the most blatant piece of yikes when it comes to the issue of creatures. The enslavement of house elves is explained away as a natural order of the world. At the end the series, even the protagonist Harry Potter accepts this natural order and becomes himself a master of the house elf Kreacher (Half Blood Prince p.55). Harry’s slave-master position is accepted,because we trust Harry to treat his slaves decently, there is never anyquestion what the condition of being a slave-master can psychologically do tothe master, or that slavery as an institution is too immoral to accept, nomatter the conditions. The reader is shown that the elves are not capable oftaking care of themselves without a master by examples of Dobby and Winky, the only freed elves shown in the books. Winky, after being freed, becomes an alcoholic. (Goblet of Fire, p.564) Dobby, while enjoying freedom, would be unable to support himself without the help of benevolent Dumbledore, to whom Dobby works in the same way as the other slaves in the castle, even if he is namely free. (Goblet of Fire p.400) (Both alcoholism and “frivolity” were anti-abolitionist talking points in the southern states in the antebellum era). Theimplication is that some races are simply born subservient, and the morally decent thing to do is to keep them in slavery but treat them kindly.
Hermione Granger, who in the books argues that slavery as an institution is by itself something that cannot be accepted, is presented with her views as ridiculous and misguided. On the other hand, those who argue for the institution of slavery appear as rational and reasonable. There is no way for anyone to think of her S.P.E.W badges as anything but childish and stupid, a phase for Hermione to grow out of. In Chamber of Secrets, the readers do see Harry freeing the house elf Dobby, after Dobby has personally helped Harry. However, the implication is that Dobby suffered from an unfit master, not from the slavery itself, and that his freedom came as boon after he had done a personal favour to Harry Potter. In the world of Harry Potter, slaves are happy to be slaves, as long as their masters are decent masters.
But if you stop and think of all this, it should not be rationally possible for a society like this to exist. If the giants truly are so stupid and violent that they are accidentally killing themselves to extinction, they should also not be sentient enough for humans to breed (and even create emotional bonds, as Hagrid’s family) with them. If these creatures have managed to create a society, it should not be possible for them to be unable to “understand complicated matters” or “kill anyone who uses too big words” (Order of the phoenix, 429).
Same with the centaurs. Segregating an entire culture to a small reservation is not pretty, and it does not happen peacefully. Still there is never any indication that the wizards were actively doing anything to keep the centaurs in their reservation. Even though, overtly and less-overtly violent actions and policies are in reality always working to keep indigenous populations at check. No creature segregated in their little reservation wants to leave that reservation, choosing to rather waste away amongst their own kind than pushing for their species to either be integrated into the wizarding world, or gaining more land from the wizards. And assuming that the centaur population is too small and weak to do anything but accept their reservation, the heroes do not see anything wrong with this arrangement either. The mythical tale of the noble savage who quietly goes into the good night is real in the wizarding world.
Those creatures who do live and work alongside wizards are equally content with their narrow roles. No goblin wants to work anywhere else expect the bank, no house-elf wants to open a business, no veela wants to study in Hogwarts. Half-breeds might be allowed in, if the headmaster is eccentric enough, and as long as they are able to “pass” as humans. The fact that their creature parents would never have that change is not even acknowledged as the tragedy that it is. It is easy for the heroes to appear as progressive, when the only thing the creatures want is to be allowed to exist in their pre-ordained roles and be treated with the most basic decency.
We don’t know what Dumbledore’s answer would be if a young goblin wanted to apply as a student at Hogwarts. We don’t know what any of our heroes’ reactions would have been, if the centaurs demanded compensations for Hogwarts’ rights to use the Forbidden Forest. Or if Dobby would have started campaigning alongside Hermione for abolition. We don’t know, because the wizarding world is in perfect harmony, as long as the creatures are allowed to exist peacefully in their roles, without corrupt, dark wizards abusing them needlessly.
What about humans then. Not all humans are created equal either. We don’t really see about the state of the wizarding world outside of Britain, but we are given the implication that the political situation in Britain is equal to the fate of the world. Harry Potter is not fighting for a political cause in UK, he is saving the world. British politics are world politics. The international wizards we do see, are also almost as much stereotyped as the creatures are. The French boys and girls from Beauxabatons are vain and frilly, while the girls and boys from Durmstrang are brutish and coarse. And in the European stage, UK and France gets their own wizarding population, while the eastern Europe is apparently lumped together in a way that makes you suspect that the Soviet Union never fell in the magical world. (considering when Rowling was creating these stories, that is not impossible. Rowling started writing Philosopher’s stone a year before the Soviet Union was dissolved). In the world politics, these three are the only ones important enough to be included in the tri-wizarding tournament, (tournament that the British dominate easily), and therefore clearly hold the political cards of magical Europe. What we do know is that British wizards have no trouble finding work overseas, while we do not see any foreigners living or working in the British wizarding world. Britain’s importance as the centre stage of magical world politics is simply a given fact of the world.
(Note that I have decided to omit all nonsense that Rowling has added to Pottermore in her effort to world-build but rest assured that it makes the situation simply much much worse.)
There is also the clean divide between muggles and wizards. The wizards once again are honour-bound from their superior position to protect the muggles. The books make it clear that it was not for the safety of the wizards that the worlds were divided. It was simply that muggles in their ignorance kept burning other muggles during the witch-hunting times. The idea that muggles, if confronted with an existential threat like the death-eaters and their genocidal tendencies, were to win the fight, is not even floated as an idea. The moral implications ofkeeping the muggle world ignorant about a part of UK population that wants to kill them, and has succeeded in several terrorist attacks against the commonpopulation, is not discussed at all. The wizards simply have the right to sacrifice the lives of muggles in exchange of keeping their society hidden from the “common folk”. The wizards who do show any interest in muggles, do it in the most condescending way possible. Arthur Weasley, who has spent years working in the ministry of muggle-affairs, cannot pronounce the word electricity or know what a rubber duck is. How exactly does someone work for muggle-affairs if one is completely ignorant of said affairs? Why are muggleborn’s not automatically working for muggle-affairs? How is it, that muggleborns all simply choose to embrace the wizarding culture without there being any underground muggleborn culture running counter the pureblood establishment? Hermione Granger wants to be seen as one of the witches, not as someone whose cultural knowledge of muggles could in on itself be a strength. Rowling really wants you to believe that the British wizarding culture is naturally so desirable that no counter-cultures have born inside it, or that there ever could be any other problem expect that muggleborns are restricted from accumulating into it.
And then we come to Harry. Our hero. At first look, he appears to be the underdog fighting against the unjust establishment of the wizarding world. However, if one takes a closer look at the story, Harry Potter is not an underdog at all. In the beginning of the story, he acquires a great inheritance from his exceedingly wealthy parents. (Philosopher’s Stone p.85) In every other character exceeding wealth seems to be a negative trait, but curiously Harry’s status as an heir to a fortune is never properly addressed in relation to Harry’s moral character. Harry is also a son of esteemed and powerful magical parents, both highly regarded in the wizarding society. From his father’s side, Harry can claim a connection to an old pureblood house, giving him a claim to the pureblood wizarding establishment. Both the wealth and the bloodline inherited from the Potter family guarantees a place in the upper class of the magical society for young Harry. Even the extremely racist Draco Malfoy in the first book seems eager to make friends with Harry. (Philosopher’s Stone p.120). It is only Voldemort who has robbed him of his natural heritage and privileges and forced him into hiding with his brutish and cruel (muggle) relatives.
The story of Harry Potter is not of someone who fights for acceptance, but of someone who returns to his rightful place on top of the wizarding society. characters who do not naturally have this privilege, gain prestige by being helpful and loyal to Harry. It is a deliberate choice by Rowling to make Harry a heir to an prestigious family fighting for the rights of muggleborns and those lower than him in the wizarding societal ladder. He is the archetypical English gentleman hero, because he has both the privilege and the proper character to carry that privilege. Voldemort, Malfoy, and other “dark-siders” from the pureblood establishment have abused this privilege and are therefore unworthy of it.
Another important part of Harry’s character is that all his powers and abilities that help him champion against Voldemort are either inherited or inherent. Harry does no need to labour for his victory. His mother gives him “blood-protection”, his father and mentors give him magical items to help him on his journey, and he simply has skills that others don’t. His flying abilities making themselves known the first time he hops on a broom, and his inexplicable talent to resist the imperio-curse is never explained expect with “a strong will”. He even learns the patronus, a spell that for adult characters is explained as a very rare and impressive talent, in a matter of days. What he is good at, he doesn’t need to work for, and what he is not good at, he doesn’t need to improve on. If there is something he doesn’t have the innate talent for, he has friends who will do it for him. When Snape claimed that all of Harry’s successes were due to luck and more talented friends…he wasn’t wrong. And the kicker is, that that’s the point. Harry’s main strength is the fact that he is good at networking and having a brave heart. That is the ideal that thousands of young Englishmen tried to mould themselves into during the imperial days. Harry doesn’t need to be the “smartest wizard of his age”, he needs to be charismatic enough that others will follow him into the battle. He doesn’t need to be shrewd, or ambitious, or smart, or even kind, he needs to know how to apply his inheritance correctly and how to manage those in the lower position than him, in order to return the status quo of the wizarding world to what it was before Voldemort.
When both Harry’s already existing place in the magical society, and the question of how the books treat the magical creatures are considered, the main conflict in the book seems to be reduced to an inner struggle between the higher classes of wizarding society. Voldemort and the death eaters are evil because they misuse their power over the lower classes, and because they discriminate against other witches and wizards. Therefore, it is the duty of Dumbledore and Harry Potter to return the wizarding world to its former and rightful order. The narrative supports the idea that now that the proper people, the naturally noble-minded heroes, are once again in power all the social issues of the wizarding world will disappear. Those on the top of the social pyramid will treat those under them with tolerance, and those at the base of the pyramid will stick to their place.In other words, the world of Harry Potter has fulfilled the colonialist fantasy of the British empire, where everybody has their place in society, and the inferior races truly are without ambitions or nuances.
The wizarding world has the structures that the British empire had, but none of the problems that come with those structures. In the end, the wizarding world returns to peace. “all was well.” The house-elves are given laws that punishes a master that mistreats their slave. The goblins continue in their segregation. The centaurs and merfolk are given a promise of no genocide. The British muggleborns are promised a place in the dominant society, as long as they perfectly emulate their pureblood peers and don’t bring muggle culture (or values) with them. The superiority of British wizardingkind has been proven, and they benevolently reside over their less evolved subjects, making sure that they are allowed to fulfill their roles in the society, as they naturally desire, in peace. There are no troublesome creature-rights activists causing havoc on streets. There are no muggleborns who would wish to side with muggles against the wizards. There is no empire, there is only the natural order of things.
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Hot take, I don't like the headcanon or the interpretation that Severus's maternal family (the Princes) are rich and influential.
I believe making them a quasi aristocratic pureblood family who would adopt Severus in a heartbeat and surrounds him with riches diminishes his story greatly.
It turns him from “brilliant half-blood poor kid who fought for every scrap of knowledge against a society that already set him for failure from his conception” into “disgraced heir who could have had it all.”
Making his maternal family rich and powerful subtly (or not so much) reinforces the idea that worth and talent are backed by old money and blood, even when the narrative of the books and the fandom pretend to critique the blood supremacy culture established in the books.
Giving the Princes a rich and noble status and therefore, making Severus return to this wealth he was deprived at first is transforming his story to the colonial fantasy that Harry Potter (as a series) already is.
It also doesn't even work with the text, since if the Princes were a well-known, influential family, why would Hermione struggle to find anything about them but Eileen's single old photo and afterwards, a tiny note in the newspaper about her marriage? The word "Prince" clearly didn't ring the bell for any of the characters as a last name of some magical aristocrasy. It's even plausible that Prince is a completely muggle last name, and Eileen herself was a muggleborn, or a halfblood with paternal muggle/muggleborn heritage. Definitely way more plausible than Severus' grandparents being some kind of brunette Malfoys.
"pft, ollie, i think your signal is bad again... your voice sounded really funny for a second."
She turns around and walks past. From the corner of her eye, Lily is deliberately walking on the other side of the street, not looking at her, face set with grim determination. For the best, Severina thinks. She's dating my bully. She chose to turn a blind eye every time he humiliated me and — she swallows hard. None of this matters anyway. They are bound to fall out eventually, what with her being a Gryffindor and Severina being a Slytherin, with the war creeping closer, and Severina knows damn well she is going to end up a Death Eater. She has to put herself first. Part of her knows, deep down in that pathetic, traitorous part of her chest, that if Lily turned around and called her name, she would come running back with her tail between her legs, sod Potter and his whole stupid gang. But Lily doesn't call. And Severina doesn't look back.
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Forgive me for not falling to my knees because James Potter eventually learned not to publicly hex, assault, sexually assault, deform and humiliate random students in hallways at seventeen years old just because those kids existed. People act like James underwent some massive redemption arc when his “growth” basically amounts to: he stopped openly bullying people as much. That too only because he got busy dating Mary Sue. Bitch, your bars are in hell if you think a man becomes marriage material just because he stopped publicly assaulting people.
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There's no way we will ever have a universal basic income, because Americans are ALLERGIC to TAXING THE RICH.
In the American mind right now, anyanyanyanyany siphoning of anyanyanyanyany money at all from a Titan Of Industry for ANYthing benefitting ANYone who isn't, is "punishing those poor wealthy for their success." In the American mind, The Businessman is to do anything at all to make money, even when it means the average person gets no raises, no benefits, and no SNAP. Anyone who cannot make ends meet is "lazy," because "This is America!!" "All you have to do is work hard and anyone can get rich, therefore anyone who isn't is lazy, or they are stupid and should have planned better."
You cannot tell a person like this that we need to tax rich people for a universal basic income because all these educated people lost their jobs. We hate educated people. They're all "woke libtards" and we hate "elitism."
Where are we going to get the money for a universal basic income if we do not tax the rich? They're the people profiting off this very technology. Yet the quintessential American argument is that THEY invented it, THEY worked hard on it, so THEY deserve every last little penny, and must not be punished for doing so well. Even though it means millions go without.
Instead, we make government try to handle problems by BORROWING from the rich, WHILE cutting their taxes (because the people who work the hardest shouldn't have to lose one itty bitty penny for some stupid JOBLESS person!). Which means that our tax dollars go to pay the rich their interest on our national debt ... which we incur precisely because we think taxing them is "communism" and "libtard."
Universal basic income is considered "socialism." And you will not find a dirtier word to anyone who identifies as MAGA. And they just redrew all the maps so they can keep the House and the White House FOREVER.
I am 58. Personally, I hope I just keel over with a heart attack in the next year or two.
Who wants to live here??
I just replaced twenty-one people for $200 a month with the technology that might cure cancer, find fusion, or end the species. The politica