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twopenguinsinabox · 2 months ago

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Quietly thinking about how Wizarding Britain is a straight-up dystopia tn. Like, even in the "good" years prior to Voldemort's resurrection, it would be such a nightmarish and fucked-up place to actually live that I feel like every time I read a fanfic where the characters conclude "hey, maybe we should just move back to the Muggle world which has neat things like rule of law and sexual consent" I feel like I want to applaud.

#HP #dystopian #rambles #Many smarter folx than I have talked about this #but the actual reality of the wizarding world is very grim #most people get married as teenagers to their childhood sweethearts #and most married women appear to be housewives #rape drugs aka love potions are entirely legal #their system of law only bothers with trials when they feel like it #the entire law-making body of the Wizengamot is made up of hereditary seats #slavery is just completely normalized #like #people really brush over the slavery thing wayyyyyyy too quickly cuz that shit is fucked #there appears to be basically no economy #and basically no freedom of the press given how the Daily Prophet and the Quibbler are treated #and this isn't even beginning to touch the orwellian oversight of magic tracking on wands #and the fact that by the Wizarding legal system #Muggles aren't treated as full humans with rights #given that the Obliviation squad is a thing that exists

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