The HP fandom will glorify a group of privileged white boys who habitually and purposefully made life miserable for kids less fortunate than them who couldn’t fight back simply because they were bored and thought it was fun. Because apparently never apologizing or doing anything to make up for their behavior, only stopping bullying when they were out of school (the SWM scene is after the werewolf incident, even almost killing Severus didn’t make them at all hesitant about casually tormenting him) and continuing to treat Severus like shit and make excuses for themselves into adulthood is “growing up and changing” aka doing NOTHING for redemption except be conventionally attractive white boys that fans want to gush over.
But the HP fandom will demonize a queer-coded, impoverished, mentally ill abuse victim who was manipulated into an extremist group as a vulnerable, isolated teenager (which, The Marauders directly contributed to said trauma and isolation) by Tom Riddle who at the time was not a snake-man that everyone knew to be evil but an extremely manipulative young “activist”. Because apparently spending the rest of his life putting himself in mortal danger, enduring torture, and choosing to sacrifice all his happiness to oppose that group he was manipulated into joining + fundemantally changing his beliefs “Don’t use that word (Mudblood)!” is “doing nothing for redemption” because it’s easier to write off characters that aren’t hot and fun. It’s easier to write off characters that make you think about uncomfortable things like privilege and abuse, and how these things twist potentially selfless and loving boys into angry men; how predators like Tom Riddle can warp these boys into their puppets, disrupting their lives forever.
blakekathryn
pixelskylines
gracieabrams
amandla
stormborns
yousharknotpass
areudirty
