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[360degreesasthecrowflies]

More Harry Potter critique of She Who Must Not Be Named's inconsistent theming, from user for-diddled at deathtocapslock community

[kahran042]

If J.K. Rowling wrote...

A couple of posts I like on deathtocapslock, describing how various works would be messed up if J.K. Rowling had written them.

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Pokémon

Anyway, I have an ulterior motive for making this post. I tried to come up with some of my own for works I like, but just couldn’t come up with many. So, if you have any ideas for things like this, or have done your own, let me know!

[thepinkseat-askthemoonbunny]

Defending Dumbledore: Our "Personal Favorite White Boy"

On Death to Capslock (I broke my streak, damn) some other Dumbledore haters called him a "personal favorite white boy." You all know what that means right, a person that can literally get away with murder and everybody excuses it because he's an attractive or influential white male. You can find it on the front page, it's a recent entry because I'm not going back and linking that pile of cow puke. Anyway, abot this "personal favorite white boy" shit (that's usually applied to rapists and murderers), that is not even one percent of Dumbledore fans miss. Not at all, we don't let him get away with "atrocities" because he's white, we like him because his character is fucking awesome. And real Dumbledore fans, real true fans we will not hesitate to call him out for the awful shit he's done, we'll do that HAPPILY. We don't let him "get away" with anything, we acknowledge his bullshit and like him anyway, like Voldemort, Draco, Bella and Snape fans to name a few. We love his character because we love and understand it, not because he's some "personal favorite white boy." Also, this term is insulting as hell not only to the non racist white fans but also to Dumbledore's POC fans (Which I am one of), who have no reason to have "personal white boys" as favorites. I mean if you really like Dumbledore's character, he could be ANY OTHER RACE and you'd STILL think he's awesome! Anyway he's canonically bi-racial, his mom was Native American! It's his character we like, not his race. He could be any other race, he could be Asian or Black and I'd STILL be a fangirl! (Hey, if he were black I might be even more of a fangirl, more representation of somebody who looks like me? HELL YEAH!) Right, anyway. Get out of our faces with that crap. Dumbledore is awesome, hero or villain he's awesome and us fans like him because his CHARACTER is AWESOME and JKR can write her fucking ass off, that's all. So you can take your racist bullshit argument and shove it where the sun don't shine, thank you and have a blessed day.

[purplefictionlover]

What the Hell Happened to Deathtocapslock?

It used to be a place where people used to snark and criticize the Harry Potter books. But for the past few years, it has become Snape apologist central and Snape is like the only character the fangirls and fanwomen over there focus on. Hell, they sound like Snivellus is the star of the HP books, not Harry, the guy the books and movies are named after.

[wholesomeobsessive]

Montavilla:

By the way, while Xenophilius’s yellow robes are “eye-watering,” Luna’s are “quite pleasant.” This is the clearest illustration of Harry’s filter that I’ve seen. If he likes you, your robes are pleasant. If you haven’t saved his ass by following him to London on a suicide mission, your robes cause headaches and eyestrain.

http://community.livejournal.com/deathtocapslock/91857.html

[360degreesasthecrowflies]

I thought that the revelation that James was a vicious little bully was supposed to challenge Harry's beliefs and views on who was right and who was wrong. Instead, Harry angsts about it for a chapter and then forgets about it. He's never bothered about it again, not even when he sees how awful his father was the second time around in DH. The fans weren't supposed to be bothered about it either. We were supposed to think that James was a bully, but that was okay, because he "grew out of it" and became the noble, loving father and husband that we'd thought he was. Even though there was no evidence for that assumption, since he and Lily got married right out of high school, died young, and he apparently kept hexing Snape behind her back even after he supposedly reformed. But yes, James definitely changed for the better, or so the text says. Unlike Draco, who's always going to be a cowardly, prejudiced brat and Snape, who's always going to be bitter and unjustly angry at the man who tormented him for seven years and was the real reason why his only friend dumped him. It's not like *those* two ever changed or could have ever made up with Harry. *sighs*

more inconsistencies from the Harry Potter author. As a writer I just find these fascinating. Text credit AiKaterini via deathtocapslock (2011)

[360degreesasthecrowflies]

It just doesn't seem like Harry's ever picked up on the idea that there are perfectly pleasant, charming, likable people who can turn out to be deeply problematic underneath, and not because they're being possessed by Evil Itself. Even people who like him and are nice to him. Rowling hints at this kind of understanding when she has other characters describe young Tom Riddle, but when she actually shows him as a child, it's like she can't bear to have readers think for a moment that he might not be the most evil ill-begotten bastard who ever lived. We were supposed to be impressed with Dumbledore for seeing through Riddle when we first heard about him in CoS, but then Rowling felt the need to beat us over the head with his undisguised nastiness, presumably so that slower readers could feel as smart and superior as Dumbledore. Or maybe she was just afraid Riddle would acquire fangirls, which she seems to have taken it upon herself to reeducate. I wouldn't be surprised if she thinks it her public duty. In a mature, realistic story, Harry would feel uneasy about Hagrid and the Weasley's polite bigotry and truly wonder if his prejudice against Slytherins didn't make him a bigot himself. He would have learned that Evil is not a snake-faced monster, but something that exists in him and people he loves, who are otherwise decent and normal.

more Harry Potter meta via DeathToCapsLock’s chapter discussions of Goblet of Fire

[wholesomeobsessive]

Funny how the artifacts reflect their Houses. The Hufflepuff Cup was faithfully kept by its family for hundreds of years. The Ravenclaw Tiara was hidden in some obscure place, while the Slytherin Locket got sold in a dark alley. But the Gryffindor Sword decides it’s going to hang out in the Headmaster’s office and show up whenever there’s some heroic action it can get credit for. Show off.

~Montavilla 

http://community.livejournal.com/deathtocapslock/96188.html 

[wholesomeobsessive]

*Hatred rose in Harry such that he had never known before. Really? Because I’d think Harry would be pretty familiar with all kinds of hatred by now. He seems freshly intrigued by every single one, and is constantly surprising himself by how much he can hate people. Accept it, Harry. You just have the gift.

Sister Magpie

http://community.livejournal.com/deathtocapslock/72364.html

[wholesomeobsessive]

Wanted to quote the whole thing.

Favourite was probably the one about The Veil: "It's actually just a bit odd and only exists so that Sirius can fall through it and we can be reminded that being dead in this universe really is just like stepping off-stage to chat in the green room until you're needed again."

[wholesomeobsessive]

The Horntail's the worst. The other dragons are nothing compared to him. Which dragon do you think Harry will get?

Sister Magpie

http://community.livejournal.com/deathtocapslock/67993.html