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The alleged reason is that she wanted to create an aspirational character for her sons while she was struggling with poverty as a waitress in the early 90s. Harry is special because he's mommy's special little boy who finds out mommy was rich all along. Everyone likes him except for the people who are bad. He lives out some predefined trajectory, created by mommy's love, where he doesn't really do anything but exist and be a special little boy. He worries briefly that he may be a bad guy due to being so special and famous but then is reassured by everyone that he can't be a bad guy because he's special and famous. Then he lives happily ever after after not doing anything (except being special) to kill the bad guy. Once the bad guys are gone then nobody dislikes him anymore and his fame can reign unchecked.
At best she was a deeply misguided striver who was trying to turn her kids into the same hollow strivers most "pick me" poors are. At worst she was actually writing a MKULTRA program to create the next great tyrant.
THIS is the kind of take that keeps me logging onto this site. 10/10
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Sincerely think we need a "local cranks get a pass" rule for sectarianism. Like, come on, it's leftist on leftist violence. It's not like they were being bigoted. What's a little incoherent ranting among friends? They were like a mascot, and we chased them out. I'll never forgive the mods! Not in this life or the next!
I mean...considering how huge Harry Potter got, it wouldn't surprise me if the CIA got involved at some point in pushing it, they probably wanted people to read the "Neoliberalism and the status quo are great actually!" books a lot more than any other fantasy novels that might've made people question the system.