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4 days agoSaw an interesting take on this recently. Rowling decided it would be great to have her hero emancipate a slave, but she’s so dedicated to neoliberalism that literally any systemic change - even ending the slavery of imaginary beings in her pretend universe - is unthinkable. So we end up with “uh actually they just like being slaves, it’s part of their nature”. But because she’s completely invested in white supremacy and neoliberalism she can’t even see how fucked up that is.
I’m assuming there’s actually three Johns allowed and OP correctly feels no one should be able to not choose him