Subject: Yeeeeaaah
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Posted on: 2022-08-30 00:22:24 UTC
I understand wanting to flesh out Slytherin; it's hard to be angry at the children of Death Eaters, or Dudley Dursley, when they're so heavily influenced by the cultures they grew up in. But while Dudley at least got a redemption arc chapter, every Slytherin student winds up fleeing Hogwarts instead of trying to defend it, not even the one student who had joined Dumbledore's Army. It would have been such a powerful statement, to have them all stand up against the privilege and power they were set to inherit, just because they knew it was the right thing to do . . . But as you said, Rowling has a very black-and-white view of who is good and who is bad.
Anyway, let me open up that other thread you linked, and read that snippet you posted with Bellatrix and Lily, which I'm sure is very normal and not weird at allwjycrgwcuwrgycfugfuiergfuwg
Argh, that's just too much hair, altogether. Despite being willing to hug several different animal species, I'm afraid human hair is quite squicky for me. Like, can't even rest my head against the wall in a public waiting room, there could be HaIr MoLeCuLeS oN tHe WaLl, squicky. So that whole . . . scenario is a big no for me. Although I am amused by:
"She is grateful that Lord Gervaise Ollivander keeps such excellent records. Else she might not have been able to acquire wood from the precise willow tree that birthed Lily’s wand."
"Hey babe, I brutalized a tree with sentimental value for you, ain't I romantic?"
Oh, also: ' . . . the only people allowed to touch a witch's hair are her father, her husband, and her son." Good to see we're honoring the traditional tradition of seeing women's bodies as objects to be locked away like property, cool.
(Also, I'm sure there's some nonsensical magical explanation for how forcing Lily and Bellatrix into marriage is going to result in Pureblood children, since they're both AFAB women, but I'm just amused because I just finished one of the Earth's Children series, where the main characters came across a tribe where the female chief was trying to slowly starve out all the men. Since the early humans of the novel don't understand what causes pregnancy, she assumed that by removing all the men, new children would be created from a mixture of women's spirits, resulting in AFAB babies only, and therefore, an all-woman tribe. That chief gets a pass on her biology fail for being a literal Cro-Magnon (although she actually should have known that some AFAB babies grow up to identify as male; people with spirits of a different gender aren't unknown to their culture), but one would think the Wizarding government would maybe be a little more knowledgeable on how reproduction works . . .)
—doctorlit apologizes for typing way to much on this, but it was a lot to think about