#prisoners get no trials and tortured forever :) but have you heard about FAT people >:(

[eggmacguffin]

so so so sorry for talking about harry potter

but my brain has been chewing through each and every flaw with that series this past week (in a series of Slumdog millionaire type flashbacks) and what they say about the maniac who wrote it

and listen.

Azkaban.

Azkaban, the only wizard prison (they don't even appear to have, like, holding, it's just Azkaban for everyone) and how very little criticism the concept of torture-forever-prison received within the text despite 50% of named characters who end up sent there being completely innocent. Are there sentences to Azkaban that aren't life? it seems insane if there aren't but also insane if there are, because of how incredibly vindictive and punitive the wizarding legal system is.

Prison in the real world does not succeed in being rehabilitative, of course.

but it is blatantly obvious that harming people who "deserve" it is the primary function of the wizarding legal system. AND how readily acceptable this is to a narrative style very childishly eager to inform you what is right and what is wrong says a lot of things about JKR and like. the concept of prison abolition

a story about a grand revolution that safely returns you to the status quo is one very lazy bad thing. But the blithe acceptance of "offending the wrong politician or a bungled trial or a very casually, comfortably corrupt government can get you sentenced to naked in a cave w/ all your happy memories stolen forever"?

And our brave hero not only doesn't question this, but dedicates his post-series life to supporting it?

what the fuck was she thinking???