[ SECRET POST #5038 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5038 ⌋

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Comments

[meadowphoenix]

for some reason this stuff specifically in HP really gets my goat, like actually grinds my gears, and it's so sudden in fic like suddenly harry's talking about curry, and i really record-scratch.

and I think it's because it makes it so clear that Rowling didn't really think deeply about race (or culture or history or the interaction of the them all) AT FUCKING ALL. just.....not at fucking all, just decided wizards had different shitty issues (also based on a shallow understanding of history) and that's all that would be affected, not race, not magic in different racially distinct countries and the historical migrations between them, nope all of uk wizardom has no actual cultural divides except blood purity! just no thought, ugh.

and so i'm at the point where I'm reading how much reason authors want to put in their racebends, and honestly for most fic, it's none.

[(Anonymous)]

Agreed. JKR displays AT BEST a sort of... vague, highly superficial awareness of race in a way that's not uncommon in white people who haven't engaged with POCs in real life. This attitude is mirrored in this thread by people who think that the only difference in a racebend HP is a light spot of racism and coloring characters with darker skin.