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You will find that help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it. ↳ Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
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There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.
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lets kill tonight, show them all you’re not the ordinary type
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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foil characters; ↳ harry potter
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There was a long, dreadful, piercing scream. Ink spurted out of the diary in torrents, streaming over Harry’s hands, flooding the floor. Riddle was writhing and twisting, screaming and flailing and then he had gone.
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beyondhallows
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Book borrowing is the biggest form of true love it’s like, “Here’s a piece of my soul that I think you would enjoy.”
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*slow clap for the harry potter fandom*
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the magic begins: favourite villain/anti-hero/antagonist
“From this day forth, you put your faith in me.”
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Ron Weasley’s character is consciously written as somewhat racist. Not as racist as Malfoy, of course - he doesn’t scoff at mudbloods and halfbloods, and he doesn’t see himself as superior at all. Still, he unquestionably accepts the inferior position of house elves (they love serving), when he finds out that Lupin’s werewolf his reaction is not only scared but also disgusted (Don’t touch me!) and he is clearly very uncomfortable finding out that Hagrid is half-giant (giants are wild and savage).
And this is brilliant. Because it demonstrates that racism isn’t only present in clearly malicious and evil people, in the Malfoys and Blacks - it’s also there in warm, kind, funny people who just happened to learn some pretty toxic things growing up in a pretty toxic society. And they can unlearn them too, with some time and effort. Ron eventually accepts Hagrid’s parentage, lets Lupin bandage his leg and in the final battle, he worries about the safety of the house elves.
Some people are prejudiced because they are evil, and some people are prejudiced because they don’t know better yet. And those people can learn better, and become better people. And that’s an important lesson. The lesson taught about discrimination shouldn’t be “only evil people do it”, because then all readers will assume it doesn’t apply to them. Instead old JK teaches us “you too are probably doing it, and you should do stop ASAP”.
"Er—yes, I think so" said Ron. “I think Mum’s got a second cousin who’s an accountant, but we never talk about him." Literally the first conversation Ron and Harry has, and he says something off color about muggles.
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Loving this post but "Some people are prejudiced because they are evil"? - yeah, I'm pretty sure they're results of toxic society too. ie. Malfoy. Even Tom Riddle was to an extent affected by his upbringing, and his parents' genes and his intelligence made him go 'evil'.
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tom riddle in chamber of secrets
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There are strange likenesses between us, after all. Even you must have noticed. Both half-bloods, orphans, raised by Muggles. Probably the only two Parselmouths to come to Hogwarts since the Great Slytherin himself. We even look something alike … but after all, it was merely a lucky chance that saved you from me.