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I think someone further down pointed out already that Remus was a half-blood, too.
These discussions make me cringe. I'm sure that James et al. weren't meant to be racist. They were meant to be cool and a bit idiotic. That, I think, would be the authorial intent. But as soon as we move away from that and look deeper, we get drawn in and there is no end to it. And then we see how little plan and thought really is in these books. There is a lot of fantasy and fun, great ideas for an interesting world - but it's not thought through, planned out, discussed properly. "It's only a children's book series" is the saddest part of it, I think. Cringe!
These discussions make me cringe. I'm sure that James et al. weren't meant to be racist. They were meant to be cool and a bit idiotic. That, I think, would be the authorial intent. But as soon as we move away from that and look deeper, we get drawn in and there is no end to it. And then we see how little plan and thought really is in these books. There is a lot of fantasy and fun, great ideas for an interesting world - but it's not thought through, planned out, discussed properly. "It's only a children's book series" is the saddest part of it, I think. Cringe!