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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 9736296" data-attributes="member: 3400">What's the retcon? Harry makes his choice in the first book and Dumbledore validates it. He opines about sorting too early to Snape in book 6, if I remember correctly. Harry tells his son he can choose his house in book 7. Harry's morality and the morality of people close to him is all about choices from the beginning rather than the supremacy of a magical aristocracy. Even the prophecy underscores choices to be made that set the events of the story in motion as we learn in book 5 rather than inevitable fate.There may be elements that are kind of ham-handed in their treatment, but I think there's probably a point to the magical world setting having incredible elements (healers instead of of doctors as Ron puts it) but complicated by an aristocracy that's blasé about enslavement of a sapient species (not to mention the blatant racism directed at others like centaurs) in the background while the choices made by Harry, Hermione, and the Weasleys foreground the struggle against evil.It's fashionable to bash Rowling right and left these days - her attacks on trans women are absolutely bashable. But I think people make her a punching bag for things she doesn't deserve as a result as well. THAT's the retcon.</blockquote>