SAME. 100% SAME. Grow a damn spine! People are being MURDERED! But a stupid video game is more important to you? Seriously?
It's at the point where I can't actually say anything about it without murdering my social relationships and gaining a reputation as the stop having fun girl (Which is exactly the position I was in with Cyberpunk 2077 so it's not unfamiliar). The ability of reactionaries to reframe women of conscience as some kind of demon out to make everyone miserable really pisses me off.
The key takeaway here is that for Death of the Author to apply, the author must actually be dead.
Harry just goes off and becomes a magical police officer. When the trauma he went through should quite frankly make him ineligible.
In Rowling's little fantasy land where being a wizard cop or indeed any kind of cop is an okay thing to be, you're right. Harry's warcrimes and trauma should make him ineligible because they indicate he won't do the job with the strict rigor it requires. (Although I would argue that even within Harry Potter, wizard cops do not do good things and should not be idolized)
However I don't think cops are good. I think they're lazy at best and actively malicious more often. Under that view, the fact Harry tortures people and feels nothing about it makes him an ideal police officer precisely because police officers are bad and it's not okay to want to be one.
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It's at the point where I can't actually say anything about it without murdering my social relationships and gaining a reputation as the stop having fun girl (Which is exactly the position I was in with Cyberpunk 2077 so it's not unfamiliar). The ability of reactionaries to reframe women of conscience as some kind of demon out to make everyone miserable really pisses me off.
The key takeaway here is that for Death of the Author to apply, the author must actually be dead.
In Rowling's little fantasy land where being a wizard cop or indeed any kind of cop is an okay thing to be, you're right. Harry's warcrimes and trauma should make him ineligible because they indicate he won't do the job with the strict rigor it requires. (Although I would argue that even within Harry Potter, wizard cops do not do good things and should not be idolized)
However I don't think cops are good. I think they're lazy at best and actively malicious more often. Under that view, the fact Harry tortures people and feels nothing about it makes him an ideal police officer precisely because police officers are bad and it's not okay to want to be one.