Harry Potter Racism. Harry Potter fans are tearing into JK Rowling after she posted a series of transphobic tweets. But a close reading of the series reveals that racism exists in the Harry Potter seriesRacism plays an important role in Rowlings Harry Potter series but it remains largely invisible to our eyes because the series is understood as pure fantasy.
But a close reading of the series reveals that racism exists in the Harry Potter series. Yet there are issues in how POC are narratively presented in. Hagrids half-Giant identity is a plot arc in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire so too are the House Elves and Hermiones crusading if not paternalistic attempts to free them from oppressionIn the Deathly Hallows the penultimate other becomes the mudblood a term we first hear in Chamber of SecretsThe final book too revolves around non-wizarding creatures of as the Ministry.
For instance Giants Trolls Erklings and Yumboes.
Rowling which range from them containing criticism of racism to anti-government sentiments. The first part will examine the series underlying racial ideology of color- blindness while the second will examine the nature of racism and the psychological impact of enslavement as portrayed by the characters. Harry Potter universe is using two different levels of analysis. RACISM JKR is great on showing what institutionalized oppression looks like between a privileged group--pure bloods--and the oppressed--muggle and mudblood.
