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TBH I lost the ability to pay attention about 3/4 of the way through, but that could be due to the contents of my glass *looks at it askance*. It was interesting to read your reasoning and evidence though. I still think it's meant to be both race and class prejudice without being a perfect map to either. That is, that intrusion of enough authorial intent has prevented it from being perfectly consistent within its own universe. But I liked this:
This is portrayed as a more natural and congenial method of assimilation than what poor Tom had endured so far, which was having proper manners and knowledge beaten into him by a private tutor—a bullying, nasty, severe, unsympathetic-to-pranks schoolmaster.
Named Snape.
...lolwut? Awesome.
This is portrayed as a more natural and congenial method of assimilation than what poor Tom had endured so far, which was having proper manners and knowledge beaten into him by a private tutor—a bullying, nasty, severe, unsympathetic-to-pranks schoolmaster.
Named Snape.
...lolwut? Awesome.