/u/AndyGHK breaks down how JK Rowling subverts and handwaves any criticism of systemic issues in her wizarding society.

There’s no agreeing to disagree here. You’re fkn wrong. Why would you think constraining authors to make main characters ONLY talk about whatever relevant themes you’re going to resolve in the book? Imagine if every author HAD to address every concern their main character brings up? If they wanted to tell a story, the only story they’d be able to tell under this rule, would be the singular stories they want to write about in the first place.

Moreover, what human only ever talks about things they are going to address? People live and die full lives talking about all sorts of shit and, furthermore, experience a world where they can’t very much change anything at all. If anything, the opposite is true, and main characters almost certainly have to mention things about the book-world they’ll never resolve in order for there to be a book-world at all.

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