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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

This might be the most brain-wormed book ever written. Grievances against socialists, plastinians, trans-people and hezbollah(?). When I was a kid Harry Potter was my favorite book-series. What a disaster

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

hezbollah(?)

anti-racist human rights as a tool for imperialist genocide

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (2 children)

You know, I've read the HP books within the last 5 years (pls no reeducation camp) and I don't remember her writing being this awful and stilted. I guess it's really true that hate and bigotry rots your brain.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

I just remember them being just standard YA.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

The people with the real talent were her editors for HP. The books get worse as they go - the more control (and ego) she has, the worse the final product.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I love how the Jeremy Corbyn character is somehow both a Trot and a Maoist, two tendencies that famously get along well.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I mean she called her one token Asian Hogwarts student Cho Chong. She's got a bit of a habit for doing zero research whatsoever.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

It is absolutely amazing how silent Labour is to any bigotry if it spoken from a rich enough mouth.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Yeah it is. I mean I know fuck all about Chinese naming customs etc. But if I were writing a story and wanted to include a chinese character I would do some basic research and not pick a name that sounds like a character from a deeply unfunny racist comedy show circa 1970

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

If I were writing a story and wanted to include a Chinese character it would be 麻

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Does that say maorijuana zebong?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

What vile slander. Our absolute boy would never break his volcel pledge

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Mao cap

troskist

wut

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I don't recall Harry Potter's prose being that painful. Geez, was the Casual Vacancy and her other adult books the turning point where her prose goes bad or something?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

i think maybe part of it is the subject matter.

"... find harry," ron bellowed in hermiones ear, pressing a wand into her hand, [as] they edged out of the room again into rons own bedroom, which seemed even smaller than it really was because every inch of the walls and ceiling had been covered in magical flyers and posters, the orange of idksomewizardshit and the black and red of broomsticksportballteam predominating.

when youre reading about wizards zippity zapping each other with big red sparkles, you tend to be a bit more forgiving of the language