Slavery in Harry Potter

[uncledark]

Over on FaceBook, leswamp posted, "One of the most interesting things about facebook is the posts that garner huge reactions and the ones that don't. IME any post that mentions Harry Potter or religion or the civil war is a sure fire billion comments. I know! What side would Harry Potter take on the civil war and does Wizard count as a religion

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[slashpervert]

Damn, you're funny and billiant! But you know that.

[sheta_kaey]

Leswamp? Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

[sheta_kaey]

What's your FB link?

[uncledark]

Lon Sarver

[dreamervictoria]

At best, he thinks it's vaguely bad, but the only time he ever acts in a way contrary to the enslavement of house elves, he does so purely to spite his personal enemy.

In fairness, a similar thing could be said of Lincoln.

[uncledark]

True. Contextually, though, there's a significant difference between a political figure of 150 years ago and a children's book series written in 15 years ago. Especially given that the former was primarily concerned with the compromises needed to hold a nation together, and the latter is concerned with a morality tale about the value of love and friendship.

[elfwreck]

And now I'm trying to figure out if clothing would have improved or damaged this post.

... don't tell me. "Trying to figure out" is not the same as "want to know."

The whole wizarding world is caught up in roughly Victorian-era morality, maintained by xenophobia and inertia. And I want someone to write the epilogue-era fic where that comes crashing down around them, because Muggle tech has finally superseded a lot of magic abilities. Wrist-based hologram computers, instant planetwide web access, house-cleaning robots, programmable search-and-[whatever] flying bots--about the only thing we're not on the verge of is the "bigger on the inside" tents. And brooms, maybe, but I suspect that's more a safety issue than a tech one.

Heh. Maybe someone with a squib child decides to make them "as good as any wizard," or hide their squib nature entirely, by loading them up with the right tech.

[uncledark]

I suddenly have an image of Iron Mage, a squib fitted out in high-tech armor that simulates wizardry...

Technomages ahoy!

And, for the record, I was only naked because I'd just gotten up from a nap. I don't strip to write about Harry Potter.

[pure_agnostic]

Our technology is insufficiently advanced since it is still distinguishable from magic. (i.e. - There is a big difference between a flying broom and a personal jetpack, even though a flying car is equivalent to an airplane.)

Excuse me for a moment while I go feed my pet dementor.

[uncledark]

Sufficiently crude magic is indistinguishable from technology.