I 100% know and understand why we hate Rowling, she deserves all the hate she gets, but why do we hate the work itself? I watched those movies when I was little when they were on TV, now couldn’t care less, and only interesting part to me are mythical creatures/monsters. But I still forgot why do we hate it so much??
Can someone remind me and explain me?
Its copaganda. The state is taken by fascism fairly quickly but after the big bad is defeated Harry joins the wizard FBI.
Some of bad guys are corrupt, ultra wealthy families that follow super powerful wizard hitler but of course there is little discussion around class having anything to do with this. In fact Harry’s family is also rich, but they’re good because they didnt follow wizard hitler.
It also attempts to make a point about how fascists hate the “unpure” half wizards and non wizards, which is bad according to the book. But there is no real pushback. Non wizards are pretty much helpless, powerless, and fully subject to whatever wizards want to do. So the message ends up being that anti semitism,racism,orientalism etc is morally wrong but fully justified by the material world.
And of course the whole house elves just want to be slaves bit.
Most people just don’t like it because its British young adult fiction (i feel like YA is almost inherently controversial, and British implies its got racism in it) and written by a transphobe billionaire. Its got a buffet of problematic qualities.