And is anyone but me hearing about a slogan over the entrance of a prison and thinking about Auschwitz? And does anyone else wish that Rowling would stop doing this?
Totally.
Now, I have nothing against nazi-like villains in fiction, because, hey, they make for some pretty nasty villains. But she’s so heavy handed and incoherent that I just wish she would give it up. By now everybody knows that wizards don’t give a shit about muggles safety or rights and the good guys are also convicted of their superiority. It would have been smarter to create a villain who threatened only the wizards, so this kind of thing wouldn’t come up.
But the problem is that the whole series is made up like that. At least, that’s what’s implied in my books – and since I´m here anyway, let me ask: what does the word Muggle means? It’s a made up world, right? What does it sounds like in English? I’m asking it because here in Brazil the word they use it is slang for stupid people. Was that what Rowling intended?
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Date: 2008-01-26 05:47 pm (UTC)Totally.
Now, I have nothing against nazi-like villains in fiction, because, hey, they make for some pretty nasty villains. But she’s so heavy handed and incoherent that I just wish she would give it up. By now everybody knows that wizards don’t give a shit about muggles safety or rights and the good guys are also convicted of their superiority. It would have been smarter to create a villain who threatened only the wizards, so this kind of thing wouldn’t come up.
But the problem is that the whole series is made up like that. At least, that’s what’s implied in my books – and since I´m here anyway, let me ask: what does the word Muggle means? It’s a made up world, right? What does it sounds like in English? I’m asking it because here in Brazil the word they use it is slang for stupid people. Was that what Rowling intended?