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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9736313" data-attributes="member: 18">No, the hat chooses for him. I've read text just now. He's crapping his pants about it selecting Slytherin, but it doesn't ask him to make a choice, it makes a choice for him, possibly (unclear) because he's crapping his pants re: Slytherin, which makes sense.But the idea he just chose is an absolute retcon not textually supported by the books.He goes on for book after book after book saying that the hat chose for him. And no-one says "Well I chose to be in this house". They all say "The hat put me here".Dumbledore's comments are:A) Many years after this criticism started (in the UK - maybe you're not aware of this).B) Don't go against the idea that the hat chooses....That's not a valid reading, especially if you're aware of Rowling's notes to translators.Rowling agrees that it's right to enslave elves. She makes this point at painful length. She makes Hermione call SPEW a dumb name to make Hermione look like an idiot and undermine sympathy for her. We know this, because her notes to translators, she explicitly told them to make sure Hermione's organisation had a dumb and preferably kinda-disgusting name.So there's no "blase" here. She may since have tried to retcon this (if so I'm unaware of it), but no, she's fine with that.The whole thing is also extremely funny in the context of her "I know better than trans people" attitudes, because my god, she's her Hermione here."Bounces off me and sticks to you" is seriously your argument? Not sure about that one matey-o. That's literally not what "retcon" means either.Also "on trans women"? She's attacked all trans people from the get-go, the very idea of being trans (particularly trans men, actually, that people are allowed to transition ftm seems to upset her even more of mtf, even though she says nastier things about the latter as people), and has now set up a legal fund with hundreds of millions of pounds specifically to fight against any pro-trans legal cases in the UK, very much including all those around trans men/trans masc people. I also don't appreciate your suggestion that she's some kind of victim re: "bashing" (come on). She's a billionaire who spends millions attacking people, aggressively launches litigation against any public person or paper who criticises her (litigation that would be illegal in much of the US and the world due to SLAPP-type laws), and who is solidly supported by the leadership teams of all three major political parties in the UK (despite the public not agreeing). How is she a victim? That's just DARVO.EDIT - I will say if Rowling had named the legal fund something like SPEW she would have proven that she was literally The Joker and had pulled off the greatest (and most appalling) "bit" in human history. Sadly she did not. JKRWF in case you were wondering.</blockquote>

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