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Dame HollyI decided to spend the weekend watching all the films - well between unpacking and sorting and all other move things i have to do.Retrospectively speaking - and as somebody who thought the books were so badly written I barely finished them, let alone re-read them - the films are fascinating.Yes, fascinating and surreal in the ways in which they both do and don't work and have and haven't held up over time. Firstly - one of my positive impressions of <a href="https://aus.social/tags/HarryPotter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HarryPotter</a> right from the beginning was that it was a lovely discussion of grief and loss and how to deal with it. I stand by this.But with knowledge of J.K. and hindsight, what's really jarring (and must be to all the people who loved <a href="https://aus.social/tags/HarryPotter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HarryPotter</a> for what they thought was its celebration of difference and non-conformity) is the whole of the Umbridge plotline in <a href="https://aus.social/tags/OrderofthePhoenix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OrderofthePhoenix</a>How can the same woman who wrote this be the woman she is now?Umbridge is introduced as the quintessential lamb in sheep's clothing. As with a lot of modern re-analyses of HP as a series, there are many ways to see Umbridge. But on paper (and on screen) she's a classic stereotype of a vicious, violent woman who uses extreme coded femininity to disguise herselfUmbridge is all pink, tea parties, knitting, homespun matronly femininity; all of which she wields as a weapon to disguise her ill-intent and repressed violence. Umbridge would have been a Bellatrix but was told that violence isn't ladylike so pretends to be sugar and spice and all things nice.Umbridge wafts through the school in an exemplar of perfect, middle-aged, middle-class femininity while trying to enforce a nonsense, sanitised curricula as well as old-school social norms around gender, class and race. Umbridge is a fascist. But here's what makes this whole thing so surreal.

Inside the Red Head's HeadI’m having a dinner and a movie stay at home date night with the love of my life. <a href="https://flic.kr/p/2pZ9RB3" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> Order of the Phoenix, which we saw in the theater together a bunch of times while we were dating. <a href="https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/06/23/dinner-and-a-movie/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/06/23/dinner-and-a-movie/</a><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robertjames1971.blog/tag/date-night/" target="_blank">#dateNight</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robertjames1971.blog/tag/dinner-and-a-movie/" target="_blank">#dinnerAndAMovie</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robertjames1971.blog/tag/harry-potter/" target="_blank">#HarryPotter</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robertjames1971.blog/tag/harry-potter-and-the-order-of-the-phoenix/" target="_blank">#HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robertjames1971.blog/tag/iphoneography/" target="_blank">#iphoneography</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robertjames1971.blog/tag/movies/" target="_blank">#Movies</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robertjames1971.blog/tag/order-of-the-phoenix/" target="_blank">#orderOfThePhoenix</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://robertjames1971.blog/tag/photography/" target="_blank">#photography</a>

PepijnVemerReading <a href="https://social.sargasso.nl/tags/HarryPotter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HarryPotter</a> <a href="https://social.sargasso.nl/tags/OrderOfThePhoenix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OrderOfThePhoenix</a> <a href="https://social.sargasso.nl/tags/HP6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HP6</a> to my youngest. Interesting experience as an older person, where I much better understand and support <a href="https://social.sargasso.nl/tags/Dumbledore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dumbledore</a> and <a href="https://social.sargasso.nl/tags/Snape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Snape</a> then I did years ago.Reminds me of the <a href="https://social.sargasso.nl/tags/Nynaeve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nynaeve</a> discussions on <a href="https://social.sargasso.nl/tags/TheWheelOfTime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TheWheelOfTime</a>, where older readers (and especially rereaders) have a much more positive view of her over younger readers.

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