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the problem with harry potter is that obviously - even putting jkr ENTIRELY aside - everything post-canon is INCREDIBLY racist, the masquerade concept is kind of vile morally and as i've posted previously the WHOLE series is sort of deeply steeped in the antisemitism intrinsic to all of the western esoteric tradition. BUT.

if you are history nerd,

#thinking so much about how pureblood wizards probably use entirely different letter forms and also don't eat with forks at high formality.#sometimes i literally sit around imagining having to learn to write sütterlin-style with a quill pen on parchment.#i learned a lot about jewish calligraphy last week which is what brought this to mind. in an ideal world i'd be a sofer

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