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Big time:

  • Asian character with a nonsense name that sounds like Ching Chong
  • black character Kingsley Shacklebolt (MLK Shackles)
  • Jewish character named Goldstein
  • Jewish stereotype goblins
  • Irish character who’s obsessed with whiskey and explosives.
  • she went on Pottermore and explained that Skinwalkers are actually just misunderstood wizards, and the native american muggles were wrong to oppress the skinwalkers
  • her designs of the international magic schools are ignorant nonsense
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Christ, what a bunch of contrived bollocks. Who’s the irish guy with the whiskey? Seamus? I don’t even know if he mentions it once. And his spells blowing up is just the films.

What’s the skinwalker thing from?

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https://www.reddit.com/r/harrypotter/comments/gvkjz2/can_we_just_acknowledge_that_the_main_irish/fsqlrh8/

It’s not so much that he’s INTO blowing things up, more so that his spell work is often atrocious enough that things just explode.

I actually have a headcanon to explain this. We can sort of weakly infer that magic is influenced by the caster as well as just the incantation. Lily did a lot of stuff with flowers (even before she could control it properly), Hermione’s magic is always particularly detailed, Ginny seems to have a penchant for nasty hexes, Lockhart is inexplicably good at memory charms. Maybe something about Seamus’ magic just naturally gravitates towards exploding?

Never have I identified with Seamus as much as I do now

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/mar/09/jk-rowling-under-fire-for-appropriating-navajo-tradition-history-of-magic-in-north-america-pottermore

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That all seems very weak.

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And his spells blowing up is just the films.

Wait, wasn’t there explosion by Seamus somewhere in first book?

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So, once? It happens to a few others, probably.

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Irish character who’s obsessed with whiskey and explosives.

If you try to talk about Seamus, I don’t remember him making explosions intentionally. Obsession requires intention. Same with Lockheart’s explosion in second book.

  • Jewish stereotype goblins

So also add speciesism?

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