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He was abducted by Hagrid when he turned 11 so that would place him maybe around the fifth or sixth grade.

I don't know if canonically there are math classes at Hogwarts.


The thought came to while I was watching the anime Mashle. If you are into Harry Potter and One-Punch Man I'd recommend giving it a watch.


Someone mentioned this community below; I wanted to highlight it.

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[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The admin of the instance we host the community on is a queer Jewish man, who expressed his feeling about having that community on his instance in this comment: https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/6746512

He is still okay with us having that community over there.

[–] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

I don't really engage in this community because of the discomfort Harry Potter generally brings me. I was honestly a bit relieved when it died.

The whole thing just upsets me honestly. Seeing the conflict is painful.

I don't understand how you interpret this to think he approves. Twice now it seems like you are just reaching for "another person said it was okay" without really digesting what they said. Where exactly did they say they were okay with this community? It seems like they very much said the opposite.

there’s a big difference between consuming public domain work made by awful people who no longer receive profit whilst consuming work by a woman who is actively engaging in political campaigns to make trans peoples lives worse with the profit she still receives.

Which makes it very different than Poe, Doyle or Seuess that were named in that thread. She is alive and well, and using her platform and fan base to produce more hateful texts. (Bad Blood)

The core text of Harry potter itself has many ableist (Durdsley), racist (House elves enjoying slavery) , antisemitic (goblins) and transphobic (Rita Skeeter) themes even if it surface level against racism. His discomfort at the antisemitic tropes are entirely understandable, and while that is not something I am going to claim hurts me, it does seem to hurt Gabe.

As I said before, I'm not going to force you to do anything. Just please understand how you continued celebration of Rowling and her work is hurting others.

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 9 months ago

I don’t understand how you interpret this to think he approves. Twice now it seems like you are just reaching for “another person said it was okay” without really digesting what they said. Where exactly did they say they were okay with this community? It seems like they very much said the opposite.

I reached out to him in private, I wasn't going to copy our conversation as it is private.

I was very ready to move that community elsewhere, and I refrained from posting for a week before getting Gabe's approval.

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 9 months ago

The core text of Harry potter itself has many ableist (Durdsley), racist (House elves enjoying slavery) , antisemitic (goblins) and transphobic (Rita Skeeter) themes even if it surface level against racism.

That's the first time I hear the treatment of Rita Skeeter is transphobic. James, Sirius and McGonagall are also able to shapeshift, and they are positive characters in the books.

For the house elves, the whole SPEW plot is designed to both make Ron (and the whole Wizard word as a whole) look stupid and bigoted, and Hermione a bit too self-righteous, as teenagers can be.

Relevant reference: https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/122283/why-did-rowling-seemingly-make-light-of-the-house-elf-situation

I've seen several times that the fact that the society isn't changed by the end of the last book as a critic, but do all work of fictions have to uphold their societies? Game of Thrones definitely isn't becoming a democracy during the books, and Brigderton is as classist as it can be.