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Had to look this up (discuss.online)
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[–] 228 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (7 children)

Yeah, calling the only black dude Shacklebolt as well. The more you look the worse it gets.

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  • [–] 109 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Even the Irish kid gets worse in the books. Apart from making things explode, his other notable character trait is repeatedly trying to turn various drinks into whiskey.

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    his other notable character trait is repeatedly trying to turn various drinks into whiskey.

    In fucking fairness half of your personal goals as an Irish teenager in the 90s and 2000s related to acquiring alcohol and getting drunk.

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  • [–] 66 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Oh goodness, I never thought of that.

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  • [–] 77 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    And the bank goblins being Jewish caricatures

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  • [–] 47 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Jesus fucking Christ what? there was a character named shacklebolt???

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  • [–] 69 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Kingsly Shacklebolt, i believe he was the personal assistant to the prime minister. His most famous quote: "dumbledores got style"

    Not the only black character in harry potter btw

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  • [–] 47 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    "Not the only black character in harry potter btw"

    Yeah everyone forgets about Hermione

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Black Hermione? What

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  • [–] 43 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    JK pushed a tweet out explaining that she always envisioned Hermione as a black girl.

    It was at the beginning of her descent into madness.

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  • [–] 39 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    That makes the whole SPEW thing even more hilarious. Imagine a black girl starts a campaign to end slavery of house elves, and everybody makes fun of her. The fucking author's position ins that the elves actually prefer slavery and Hermione is stupid for trying to end that.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    I swear y'all talk out your ass so much of the time, I get Rowling is a shitty terf but lying about content of the books is just stupid.

    Harry freeing dobby is a major plot point

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I mean I'm on your side sort of, but in the books most of the Elves do prefer having a master and not getting paid. Which one could and probably should equate to slavery.

    Hogwarts is like a super prestigious job for the house elves and none of them want to be paid or freed. Although idk who their master would be technically. They sort of imply it's the headmaster at least.

    Winky is just broken after she gets freed. Or fired as she sees it. A hit to her honor, and then she becomes a drunk when they go to work for Hogwarts with Dobby, but even then Winky refuses to get paid iirc.

    But yeah there's a lot of out of context things. Fuck Rowling but I still like Potter. Not gonna give any money tho

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Besides, it can still be made consensual. Change the contract. Elves prefer being servants? Let them stay as servants willingly while having the option to leave if they prefer so. Keeping only the two extremes yall are slaves and yall are fired also is a pretty much pro-slavery position.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    You're right. Sure. We could do that.

    Or we can just accept that the Wizarding World is actually made for children and not planned out in the same detail as Middle-Earth & Tolkien's languages.

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  • [–] -5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Off topic, but I dig black Velma in the reboot.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    reminds me of "spear chucker" on MASH.

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  • [–] 22 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    That one was on purpose:

    In the book, just like in the movie, Spearchucker reveals that the nickname "Spearchucker", ordinarily a racial slur, referred in this case to his javelin-throwing prowess.

    They use the racism behind his nickname to address racism:

    The film also depicts Spearchucker as a particularly skilled neurosurgeon and this, together with the experience of playing football together, helps Duke Forrest overcome his racial prejudices and the two become friends at the end, shaking hands when it is time for Duke to go back stateside.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Nah... come on.... please, let that not have been a conscious thing

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  • [–] 21 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Mate, there's so many weird or disturbing things in the books that didn't make it into the movies.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    You can't just leave us hanging like that?

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Is it true that the centaur from movie 1 had more lines than all the black characters in all 7 books?

    And then modern fans get mad at black Snape in the TV show (if that gets to finish. My bets is it will patter out like the fantastic beasts movies)

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Fans get mad about black Snape because it would instantly make Harry look like an ultra racist without rewriting half the book.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    I believe you, but how so? I've not read the books.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    Because half the plot of the books are Harry being suspicious of Snape based on basically just looks and a gut feeling at first and then hating him progressively as the books go on.

    You can picture it in your mind "Oh Snape is very sketchy, he looks different then all the other professors. I know he is a bad person.. I am going to prove it" with the visual background that he is like the only black professor and just one of a few black wizards shown.

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