#a-potter-head

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greetings to kanlaughingalonewithawatermelon, a-potter-head and a-lesbian-nerd

edit: wtf I posted this like, a week ago why is it only posting now

[chinquix]

how do you know there weren't gay bi and trans kids at hogwarts? there can't have been that many, since there's only ever 280 students, and we only hear a lot of details about a handful of the characters and anyway, even though there isn't much gay representation in harry potter, were the other important messages it sent not enough? did it have to cover every political issue ever? no it didn't, however the whole mudblood thing does cover prejudice and minorities as a whole

wow okay er

The fact is I don’t know there weren’t any gay, bi or trans kids at Hogwarts (or any other kids who identify as anything other than cishet) because it was literally never addressed. It’s not a thing that gets talked about. At all. That was kind of the point I was making.

Yes, Harry Potter has very important messages it brings across - some of them less successfully than others, admittedly - and no, the lack of explicitly gay characters doesn’t take away from those messages, but I was replying to a post explicitly about Dumbledore’s sexuality in canon, and explicitly about Harry Potter’s treatment of representation in terms of gender, romantic and sexual minorities. The original post was stating that J.K. Rowling’s inclusion of a queer character was something she should be congratulated for, and I’m sorry, but it’s really not??

Actually, Harry Potter doesn’t do very well regarding racial representation either, but that’s something I don’t feel as confident talking about so instead I’d suggest you take a look at some of these links (that last one is long but an extremely interesting read, and if any followers could provide additional criticism, that would be great!).

Mudbloods are an allegory. They are a metaphor. They do not count as representation, and the idea that anything can ‘cover prejudice and minorities as a whole’ is a severe misunderstanding of how prejudice even works, and that the experience of different minorities is highly personal and differentiated. Racism is not the same as, say, transphobia (though it may stem from some of the same systems, and there is of course overlap), and forms of oppression shouldn’t be explored by some kind of blanket metaphor that stands in for all of them.

Finally, my identity is not inherently a political issue. My friends identities are not inherently political issues. Having such a huge cast of characters - as Harry Potter as a series does - and including some characters that aren’t cishet shouldn’t be a political statement.

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