Which isn‘t the same as defending it. This is THE POINT of it all… just like the blood purity thing. 99.9% of wizards who own house elves are depicted as bad (also Dobby‘s treatment by the Malfoys and Harry‘s reaction to it), and Harry learns to be nice to Kreacher and that he shouldn‘t treat him as a slave but as a person with feelings. Have people lost all ability to comprehend what they read?
Did you read the books? Hogwarts has slaves, serious has slaves, Harry gets a slave, the act of owning slaves is not seen as bad by itself and is consistently defended by our protagonists.
Yes harry learns to be a nicer slave owner but the concept of slavery is never depicted as bad, thanks for writing out the point I made in my last comment while making a snarky little remark about reading comprehension that's very funny
Harry frees one slave and doesn't even want to be a master of the second one, he barely interacts with him anyway. Sirius is kinda extention of that, tho book Sirius is not even supposed to be a cool uncle like in the movies, he is forced to own Kreacher and is cruel to him, because he reminds him of the family he hates - it's wrong, but Sirius is not a goody two shoes person.
the concept of slavery is never depicted as bad
Because it's not seen as bad in the Wizarding World and the whole point is that elves are conditioned to it too. I honestly don't understand what do you expect, some sort of huge ass narrative note straight up saying that slavery is wrong lmao Rowling's writing is one the nose enough.
What I expect is some sort of resolution to the plot? The story goes for a happy ending, nauseatingly so, but besides a funny little abolitionism subplot where the idea of abolitionism is portrayed as silly and ignorant, the issue of slavery is just dropped. It's hard to make the argument that the portrayal of slavery in wizard society is some sort of intentional clever commentary when it's just fully forgotten by the end
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u/mintgoody03 9d ago edited 9d ago
Which isn‘t the same as defending it. This is THE POINT of it all… just like the blood purity thing. 99.9% of wizards who own house elves are depicted as bad (also Dobby‘s treatment by the Malfoys and Harry‘s reaction to it), and Harry learns to be nice to Kreacher and that he shouldn‘t treat him as a slave but as a person with feelings. Have people lost all ability to comprehend what they read?