[ SECRET POST #3280 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3280 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

Re: I wonder

[(Anonymous)]

Except prior to when Rowling revealed those details the only mention of Blaise was his name as he was sorted into Slytherin. How is it a poor writing choice to not do a complete and thorough description of a character whose only function in their first named appearance was literally to be 'character whose last name starts with Z and so was the last one sorted?' She described him when he became relevant to the story, the poor writing choice in my mind would have been to do it in the first appearance where the character has absolutely no relevance whatsoever for like the next five books.

Re: I wonder

[(Anonymous)]

Right, fleshing out characters and environment when describing a completely new experience in a foreign setting is such poor writing.

Re: I wonder

[(Anonymous)]

So good writing is fleshing out every single character who gets a one line mention, regardless of whether they actually matter to the story or not? The line he's mentioned in is ' "Well done, Ron, excellent," said Percy pompously across Harry as "Zabini, Blaise" was made a Slytherin.', I suppose she could have added 'as a black boy named Zabini, Blaise was made a Slytherin' but that's awkwardly phrased, unnecessary, and Harry himself probably isn't even looking at the Sorting Hat at that moment so why would the narration from his POV even mention it.

Re: I wonder

[(Anonymous)]

If it had been written like that "a black boy named Zabini, Blaise, was made a Slytherin" it would not only be awkward but almost offensively othering. People in other parts of this discussion are talking about how JK Rowling devotes paragraphs to telling you when a character isn't white and how that's bad, but she doesn't really do that. Your hypothetical sentence, however, is an example of what it would be like if she did.

Re: I wonder

[(Anonymous)]

When I realized there were a bunch of people in fandom who seriously thought Blaise was a girl, and then got all butt hurt about "muh headcannons!" when he wasn't, I thought: what a bunch of phillistines.

You're one of those people. Never heard of Blaise Pascal?