As a nine year old I thought the Death Eaters were meant to be like the Nazis, but I guess Rowling is so dumb she didn't make the connection until after she wrote them?
Don’t the “good guys” in Harry Potter sort you into a life-defining group based on apparently innate qualities they determine by measuring your head?
most of the "good guys" have house elves, a species bred to be slaves. (but its no problem see they like being slaves)
im surprised it took us this long to notice the writer's, uh, tendencies..
most people only saw the movies where the screenwriters were smart enough to tone down some of this shit.
...does the sorting hat literally just measure your skull?
Hmmm yes... stong brow ridge, aggressive... pronounced occipital protuberance... recessed frontal bone, not the brightest are we? But focused, shallow orbital plate... you have the phrenology of... a GRYFFINDOR!
a skull-measuring device that can speak and read your thoughts to make it fun for kids
I think the idea is that it needs to be on your head in order to determine certain intangible things about you. The houses don't make much sense though and one of them is just "you're a fascist" so 
Well, just to try and be a bit fair (Rowling and HP both suck a lot, we can dunk on them entirely fairly) the sorting is explicitly quite arbitrary. Harry was told by the sorting hat that he'd be well suited to the nazi bad guy house, but he said he didn't like that idea so it stuck him in the good guy main character house instead. And it's not really life-defining as far as I remember, once you're out of school you can identify with it or ignore it as much as you want, it doesn't really follow you in any way on its own
Ironically Harry is so inert and cares so little about anything besides sports and defending the status quo that the hat was probably right in saying he'd make a good fascist. His only thoughts about endemic slavery are "I wish my nerd friend would stop being so annoying about all the slaves" and in book 2 he is preoccupied, not with the possibility that his ability to talk to snakes is an indicator that he's made bad decisions/might be doing something wrong, but that people are being rude to him because he appears to be a fascist.
it's like the political version of easily figuring out the author's thinly veiled fetish.
doesn't really follow you in any way on its own
Except that all the members in the Hitler youth house ended up joining the wizard SS
No shame in the nazi game apparently
It's still weird that there's a house where pretty much everyone who joins it turns evil, yet the school doesn't ban them? Seriously, Snape is the only Slytherin who is arguably good but even he only did the right thing for incel reasons.
I remember reading the first book as a kid and being vaguely upset at the idea I could be segregated from my friends because of personality traits and shit
Its an elite invite-only boarding school, so you're unlikely to know anybody when you arrive. But also, it tends to clump people together by family cough bloodline cough and common interests, so the theory is you'll make friends more quickly when you're coughWEAZEcough segregated into like-minded groups gaspGAGchoke fuck me its really bad the more I think about it, isn't it?
A bit more seriously, its not crazy unusual for schools and unis to organize people into fraternities and clubs and houses and other social units early on in your college career. Then you tend to just end up with these people as your friends by virtue of proximity. By applying a certain degree of blind randomness, or by sorting via interest and passion rather than letting people congeal based on their own historical biases, you get a better mix of students than you would if everyone just clumped by who they knew or thought they'd like.
The system doesn't have to be modern phrenology.
Meanwhile I'm just here wondering how many lice infestations the Sorting Hat has facilitated over the centuries
Christ, it hurts that you're just now making me realize this.
From what I vaguely remember about the movie, it doesn’t really measure their head but more just reads their mind. Ostensibly it’s basically a personality test, but I think Harry pretty much told it what house to put him in.
2004
Le Guin is the goat. My favorite author. Terry Pratchett too, but Le Guin's the goat.
Like the school houses, people mistake "pure-blood", "half-blood", and "muggle-born" as being original creations of Rowling despite being typical parts of British boarding school culture.
Me in 2024 learning what Germany was up to in the 30s and 40s
"They did WHAT"
I suspect she's trying to make herself seem better by coincidentally opposing Nazi ideology without even knowing about it. "I'm such a good person my book's villains were Nazis before I even knew what they were!"
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Not at all, "I'm an adult who went decades without caring about one of the worst acts against humanity enough to know the basic facts."
She's just lying. Joanne also claimed she didn't know she had written a fantasy book until after the first Harry Potter was published.
She likes to pretend she was never influenced by anyone or any work, and came up with everything all on her own.
Is she really trying to pull the ol' "I've never even seen that movie, or that syndicated TV series based on the movie, so how could I copy it" trick on The Holocaust?
Bragging about how you independently developed Nazism from scratch.
imagine being in your 30s in a westoid country and not knowing what the nazis were
what a dumbass
not one drop rule or spanish castas?
fascinating education in terf island
reprehensible minds think alike
THIS is what we're losing a culture war to?
Lmao that’s fucking hilarious
She's trying to hide her anti-Semitism.
Oh the goblins are all the negative stereotypes for Jews? I didn't know they had negative stereotypes until I visited the holocaust museum. I only knew good things about Jews. The goblin traits are co-incidental
Deatheaters are boymoders sucking the life out of cisoids
This was literally just a joke short Nick Mullen made on the TAFS.
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