Esther is doing statistics on Nostr: In his excellent video essay about all the messed up stuff in the Harry Potter ...
In his excellent video essay about all the messed up stuff in the Harry Potter franchise and Rowling’s other works, Shaun points out that in HP there are no morals about actions, only about teams. Whatever the “good team” does is good, and when the “bad team” does the same, it’s bad.
https://youtu.be/-1iaJWSwUZs?si=c0va_S7rQBQ9j_RQ
(the segment from 11:50 to 14:00 specifically but it’s a theme in the whole essay)
And I think it’s possible that this model of morality in HP has cooked the ability to have discourse about ambiguous issues in large parts of my generation for whom the series was formative.
https://youtu.be/-1iaJWSwUZs?si=c0va_S7rQBQ9j_RQ
(the segment from 11:50 to 14:00 specifically but it’s a theme in the whole essay)
And I think it’s possible that this model of morality in HP has cooked the ability to have discourse about ambiguous issues in large parts of my generation for whom the series was formative.