Reading the one about the Hogwarts Acceptance was actually making me annoyed.
The book refusing baby Neville. How great it is that Squibs are successfully kept out of Hogwarts. The fact that they are still using the same system a thousand years later because the wizarding world's lack of innovation is staggering. Though if she'd tried to tell us otherwise it wouldn't be believable because the magical community is so backwards already.
I think she still hasn't accepted that HP is a dystopia filled with mean self righteous characters. Hearing the fans un-ironically saying that the new version of the site is so horrible it must have been taken over by muggles is making my eye twitch.
[I deleted my comments because it was a repeat, as it told me it had marked my comment as spam so I rewrote it and tried to edit the previous one when I realized it had gone through but couldn't]
I hadn't read that entry yet. It really is disturbing. Yes, let's all pat ourselves on the back for how good a job we do at excluding non-magical children from the society they're born into. Ugh.
I prefer Terri’s version: children are registered with the Ministry by their parents when they show definite signs of magic. Children who aren’t registered-because their parents are muggles, or are procrastinators, or don’t like dealing with the Ministry, or think their child’s magic isn’t strong enough-have to wait until their names show up automatically in the Hogwarts Enrollment Book at age eleven. Only at that point does the Ministry have a complete census of fully-magical Britons. If we allow for Albus lying to Mrs Cole and Hagrid exaggerating to Harry (about Tom and Harry respectively having been registered since birth), that covers everything. Except for squibs, who slip through the cracks if their families don’t make a record of them, and therefore make excellent spies.
The book refusing baby Neville. How great it is that Squibs are successfully kept out of Hogwarts. The fact that they are still using the same system a thousand years later because the wizarding world's lack of innovation is staggering. Though if she'd tried to tell us otherwise it wouldn't be believable because the magical community is so backwards already.
I think she still hasn't accepted that HP is a dystopia filled with mean self righteous characters. Hearing the fans un-ironically saying that the new version of the site is so horrible it must have been taken over by muggles is making my eye twitch.
[I deleted my comments because it was a repeat, as it told me it had marked my comment as spam so I rewrote it and tried to edit the previous one when I realized it had gone through but couldn't]
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