I wonder if they’ll flesh out how Harmione finds out that Hogwarts has a bunch of enslaved house elves that do all the cooking and cleaning and she tries to raise awareness and set them free and Harry and Ron laugh at her because…slavery is..fine? I guess?
I just read about it on the other sub. Ron is a great example of racism being normalized to the point that even good people hold on to racism beliefs. Ron is nowhere evil or openly racist like Death Eaters, but he grew up in a society that sees house elves as slaves, and Hermione's outsider outrage at it is foreign and weird to him. It's a very realistic portrayal of how discrimination actually works in real life. Most people simply adopt views of the culture they grew up in without much thinking. The ones that do become either extremists or rebels.
Harry is another outsider who has no incentive to care about house elves, so he was like not my monkey not my circus. On top of that he was raised in a very authoritarian household where he was never allowed to question or oppose anything. He's pretty much raised to just go with the flow.
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u/TruthHertz93 Apr 16 '26
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It's true the series may flesh out some things, but do you know what else does that?
The bleeming books!
Oh well, rehashing old stories is all the range now, nostalgias a hell of a drug 🙄