Artemis on Nostr: I still haven't gotten over the fact that Rowling created a wizarding world that was ...

I still haven't gotten over the fact that Rowling created a wizarding world that was plagued by institutionalized racism (and patriarchy!)—a fact she frequently highlighted—but actually never planned to upend that hierarchy.

Even as a kid when the books were coming out, I truly believed and expected it was going somewhere. It seemed to me that Rowling was laying the groundwork for the Ministry of Magic to become the true villain.