I... I... I just like to think sometimes that the world isn't actually truly evil and the books I love (or at least loved) so much weren't really written by an amoral hack and that maybe, just maybe, JKR doesn't always think too deeply about what she writes. (Like, um, that stuff about Tom Riddle apparently being evil from birth and thus not having any of the high-falutin' "choices" Dumbledore is always speechifying about.)
The comparison JKR is making between Lily Potter (who is, at last analysis, rally just an overpriveledged, middle-class bint that got lucky by marrying up to a frothingly obsessed wizarding lord-of-the-pureblood-manor type) and Merope Gaunt, an impovershed, probably malnourished, possibly insane woman who has been beaten down and abandoned by just about everyone she's ever loved makes... absolutely no sense at all. But... can JKR really be tone-deaf enough not to understand how haughty and priviledged and fucking terrible her view point on the two of them is?
I just... I just... maybe gremlins crawl into Jo's typewriter as she wrote the 6th (and probably the 5th and parts of the 4th) book and things like this chapter are what resulted. Otherwise... I just can't understand it myself.
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Re: *excuse the rage*
Date: 2005-12-01 10:39 am (UTC)The comparison JKR is making between Lily Potter (who is, at last analysis, rally just an overpriveledged, middle-class bint that got lucky by marrying up to a frothingly obsessed wizarding lord-of-the-pureblood-manor type) and Merope Gaunt, an impovershed, probably malnourished, possibly insane woman who has been beaten down and abandoned by just about everyone she's ever loved makes... absolutely no sense at all. But... can JKR really be tone-deaf enough not to understand how haughty and priviledged and fucking terrible her view point on the two of them is?
I just... I just... maybe gremlins crawl into Jo's typewriter as she wrote the 6th (and probably the 5th and parts of the 4th) book and things like this chapter are what resulted. Otherwise... I just can't understand it myself.