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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9736134" data-attributes="member: 18">And yet a wholly correct one!It's right to stand by it!My unpopular HP opinion, also not one to bring up in casual conversation because it makes a lot of people uncomfortable, is that it was increasingly obvious as one went through the HP books that the writer was an extremely narrow-minded person with specific ideas about how the world should work, and and who and what was cool and not, and that those ideas were basically the ideas of a English "mean girl" who'd happiness-peaked at like 16. I dropped the books after the 4th one (I read it in 2001 or 2002) with the SPEW stuff, where I realized not only was this person narrow-minded and a little mean-spirited, they were actually nasty. You don't set up an ultra-elaborate scenario where you try to make out slavery is cool, actually, and these little guys just love being slaves, and the best-natured main character is wrong and to be mocked and scorned for caring about them, not unless there's something seriously wrong with you lol, imho anyway! I kept reading because the natural assumption was "Oh well Hermione will turn out to be right in the end!", but no. That very much did not happen.</blockquote>