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[โ€“] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 152 points 3 days ago (17 children)

My favorite part of Harry Potter is when Hermione tries to get everyone to oppose slavery and everyone's just like why are you being so mouthy?

JK Rowling has views that were regressive for the 1800s. It's amazing we didn't see it sooner.

I thought that was the most realistic part of the books. How many hundreds of years of people crying out against slavery did it take for chattel slavery to be abolished? Sure, it would also have been realistic for there to have been more people opposing slavery, but as an initial reaction? Society would absolutely shit on her out of inertia.

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