Eat the Rich: Classism in the UK Entertainment Industry, Pt. 1 [ONTD Original]

[jdnightghobhadi]

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[meadowphoenix]

i mean, you're confusing wealth with class. upper-class uk is primarily about blood before money (why does that sound familiar) and jkr pretty much pasted on uk class onto her wizarding pureblood analog. jkr even made up a pureblood le bon ton (called the sacred twenty-eight) of which the weasleys and prewetts (and longbottoms, shaklebolts, abbots, and mcmillans, and the grand majority of slytherin names we met) are a part. the weasleys are upper-class but poor. that was absolutely common for many english nobles, to have titles or minor lines (second, third, and fourth sons and descendants who had to work in government because they weren't entitled to land from their family) which had no money but still have some type of social consequence (so they "diluted their blood" by marrying rich middle-class folks or rich Americans, Hermione for instance). jkr wasn't being in the least subtle, she just like to use her metaphors for many different social striations.

not to mention that they sent seven kids through magical eton on no scholarships, which is exactly what we're saying is not working-class behavior lmao.

[fried_twinkie]

I mean, there is no indication that Hogwarts charges tuition fees or room/board fees...

[meadowphoenix]

you're right in that jkr has said that its free. but she's also has post-canon apocrypha saying that harry always had a "place" at hogwarts (implying that he was always on the hogwarts list), which doesn't make sense to stress for a publicly funded magically expanding universally available magical school except as an analog for eton and harrow so....