[ SECRET POST #6370 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6370 ⌋

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


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05. [SPOILERS for Genshin Impact]

[OP caption: Secret because I normally sympathize with the Fatui!]



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06. [SPOILERS for In Blossom (cdrama)]




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07. [WARNING for discussion of JKR/transphobia]



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08. [WARNING for discussion of childhood sexual abuse]

















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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I always felt like the house elves were one of the biggest encapsulations of the issues with JKR's worldbuilding. You could see where she wanted to go for the whimsical folklore-based idea of them being like brownies, but she also wanted Dobby as a character to be enslaved and she wanted Winky to be upset about being freed. So she decided that okay, house elves like being slaves and Dobby was just weird because she couldn't think of a way out of it, when a stronger writer would have realized the better answer is to just have Hogwarts be *paying the house elves.* Maybe the Whomping Willow excretes a magic sap that's useless to wizards but like gold to house elves, so they all want to work at Hogwarts and become rich. Winky meanwhile is the weird one who wanted to keep being enslaved. It's simple and fixes a thorny issue that didn't need to exist, but JKR didn't want to think that hard. (And in general I think a lot of HP's worldbuilding problems can be boiled down to she started writing a simple fantasy for children where you don't think too hard about the setting as long as it's charming, but then when things got more mature and serious she didn't pivot the worldbuilding to match.)