I’m hosting a Harry Potter themed trivia tonight at a family friendly brewpub and good lord …
Revisiting these stories, there is so much that is insanely fucked up.
Yes, I will 💯 owe up to being a fan.
But things started to wear on me long before JK outed herself as a transphobe – simply because I felt like the story got stale, and looking back on the content there’s a lot that’s big yikes.
Like, it was stupid for James and Lily to not have a portkey in their house ready for them to both touch while one of them was holding Harry so they could escape immediately if Voldemort showed up.
Portkeys don’t quite work that way (they’re regulated by the Ministry, etc.). They could have apparated though. Boom, problem solved.
Snape was an incel for sure. James was also a huge asshole. Lily was basic.
And these kids were repeatedly put in mortal danger constantly and not even necessarily by the bad wizards!
Like, it was done intentionally!
In the fourth film they literally tie four kids to the bottom of a lake!
For a game! That doesn’t actually matter!
—emily duchaine
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