![]() This nagging sense of wrongness begins to permeate your concept of the "happy slave". If I were a slave, no matter how nice my 'masters', I couldn't be happy." ![]() You sympathized with HIM because he was abused.īut now you see these slaves who aren't accepting "freedom" and who don't seem upset, and you start to think to yourself, "But wait. You begin to try to empathize with them something that you didn't need to do for Dobby. ![]() "Okay, so slavery is fine if we're nice to them?!" and then you see the slaves constantly refusing to leave their slavery, and THAT is when you start to get REALLY uncomfortable. When they are both treated with kindness, they change. It was supposed to point at the elephant in the living room (slavery) without pointing directly at it.ĭobby is obviously abused, and so is Kreacher. Much literature of the past used equivalencies to create disturbed feelings in people. In my childhood, black slavery was still a constant discussion and racism was even more rampant than today. I'm much older than most folks on this sub, and I think I know what JK was doing here. ![]() It's sad to me that people aren't made to study literature in school anymore.
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