For all her bigotry, I don’t think Rowling is/was pro slavery. In the books that plot point is clearly meant as social critique against the imaginary wizarding society.
But after a while I guess the plot point got boring and it doesn’t make sense for the world to change because of some random school girl’s protest, so the whole thing was dropped.
Kinda like fridays for future. At first the reporting around it was like “Cool, the kids have something they getting political”, then it got boring and then society got hateful against it and then everyone just ignored them and nothing was changed by it.
It was prevailing thought at the time though too (~2000s), I remember my mates and I looking at activists with some measurable annoyance and disdain. I don’t think her attitude was so far out of whack with the general vibe
For all her bigotry, I don’t think Rowling is/was pro slavery. In the books that plot point is clearly meant as social critique against the imaginary wizarding society.
But after a while I guess the plot point got boring and it doesn’t make sense for the world to change because of some random school girl’s protest, so the whole thing was dropped.
Kinda like fridays for future. At first the reporting around it was like “Cool, the kids have something they getting political”, then it got boring and then society got hateful against it and then everyone just ignored them and nothing was changed by it.
I didn’t really interpret it that way. I took it as “look how annoying people who complain about social justice are”.
I don’t think she literally supports slavery but it was clearly an allegory for what she views as annoying activist types.
Rowling said on multiple occasions that Hermione is her “idealized self-insert”.
So I don’t think she’d use her own self-insert to say “Look how stupid people like me are”. Doesn’t really make sense.
She also said that she was Black, so I’m not sure how trustworthy she is on the subject
IIRC she said she never specified Hermione’s race, which is technically true. But at one point she did physically describe her to be fair skinned.
It was prevailing thought at the time though too (~2000s), I remember my mates and I looking at activists with some measurable annoyance and disdain. I don’t think her attitude was so far out of whack with the general vibe