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   Simon Brooke (simon_brooke@mastodon.scot)'s status on Saturday, 24-May-2025 21:12:32 JST Simon Brooke

   Hear me out, friends. I'm going somewhere.

   In the #HarryPotter universe, there are few or no good, rich characters. The rich wizards are all Death Eaters; those with political power (the Ministers of Magic (at least until 2019), Dolores Umbridge) are all stupid or evil or both.

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     Simon Brooke (simon_brooke@mastodon.scot)'s status on Saturday, 24-May-2025 21:12:36 JST Simon Brooke

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     Our heroes are poor and/or outcasts. Potter himself is an odd, troubled kid brought up by a dysfunctional foster family. Grainger is a Muggle-born, a despised class within the magical community. The Weasleys are hard working and conscientious but poor.

     The whole arc of the story (because each book essentially recaps THE SAME story) is of the triumph of the underdogs through unity and collective action.

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