Black-Washing Harry Potter - The Most Liberal Story and Boy that ever Lived - Why we should not reclaim HP & Should let it DIE
Yes I went there
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How to start this strange rant-post? To be quite honest I didn’t even plan to write it but feel I must. First off it started out as I was doom-scrolling after searching ‘fantasy-fiction’ on twitter as I’m wont to do these days if only to look for talking points over here in the Notes section (most people here have much healthier and more interesting perspectives than over on twitter).
But what do I come across? A bunch of ‘conservatives’ and ‘rage-baiters’ raging at how Harry Potter is to see some black-washing…. again. Yes, there are conservatives horrified by the notion that Harry Potter has just been captured by the liberals….. yes I’m serious. Oy vey I said, when I read that fact. The trouble with the notion that Harry Potter must be saved from the liberals, from black-washing and preserved in some fashion is ridiculous. As it has ALWAYS been liberal.
Harry Potter itself is a plagiarized, woke/liberal washed version of Worst Witch from the 70s, a popular little girls’ story that has served to inspire countless tv series and millions of girls around the world.
And just what is Worst Witch? Apparently there’s a lot of people that don’t know about it. It was a popular piece of girl’s literature in the genre that was about a young girl by the name of Mildred who goes to a girl’s boarding school to learn magic. In the story Mildred is disliked by the potion-master, doted on by the headmistress and has to constantly save the school and her classmates (sound familiar?).
The story has been adapted several times and is honestly pretty adorable, I enjoyed it a great deal a few years ago. If ever there was a piece of women or girl’s literature worth defending, it would be this one as it is about the importance of having a good childhood, friendship, and the bond of a mother with her child and so on.
It is the sort of tale the genre honestly does need more of, it must be acknowledged as there’s too few stories that highlight the importance of love of this sort and of female friendships.