No, that really wasn't her point. That was my theory when I was reading it as a kid and when I dropped the books halfway though for being annoying, I had assumed that it would be addressed later. I was shocked when I learned it was never addressed. Did it seem right with you that the Weasleys wanted a house elf? How about when Hagrid used house elves to test for poison in foods? Or when Harry thought that Hermione was being annoying about her whole Civil Rights thing?

The house elf situation is actually really easy to fix. At least within Hogwarts. Dumbledore could have simply given them freedom and payed them to stay. Little Witch Academia did a House Elf story in 23 minutes that links to the greater season story arc. Reign of the Seven Spellblades did demihuman rights as a core part of it's first story arc and world building.

Lisa Simpson is an example of having the right idea, but being too young to have a greater effect. The show depicts her as annoying, but right. Rowling depicts Hermione as wrong because she's annoying.

Rowling is either a bad writer or a bad person if she couldn't or choose not to address the slavery of the house elves in the seven books of the series.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

No, that really wasn’t her point.

Ok, let me rephrase.

That's what she has said in an interview to be the point of all that.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

I don't believe her.