Look, I like the Harry Potter books well enough, but it seems to me that Arthur's "special interest" is crappy fetishization of another culture. On top of being extremely clueless. He's terribly ignorant about muggles, despite being in a situation where he could learn, if he wanted to, but no. Instead he's content to be a patronizing, privileged ass. From a safe remove. When he's not memory-wiping muggles who saw magic to protect the wizards from them, with some bullshit hand-wave about how this is actually best for EVERYONE.
This man could be knitted back together with spells when he was maimed by a dangerous animal, but actually, let's try that barbaric thing muggles do where someone sews their flesh back together, instead, for shits and giggles. Does it really work, do you think? (Of course, if it doesn't, he can just fall back on magic.) Bastard.
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Look, I like the Harry Potter books well enough, but it seems to me that Arthur's "special interest" is crappy fetishization of another culture. On top of being extremely clueless. He's terribly ignorant about muggles, despite being in a situation where he could learn, if he wanted to, but no. Instead he's content to be a patronizing, privileged ass. From a safe remove. When he's not memory-wiping muggles who saw magic to protect the wizards from them, with some bullshit hand-wave about how this is actually best for EVERYONE.
This man could be knitted back together with spells when he was maimed by a dangerous animal, but actually, let's try that barbaric thing muggles do where someone sews their flesh back together, instead, for shits and giggles. Does it really work, do you think? (Of course, if it doesn't, he can just fall back on magic.) Bastard.