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I know shes a bigot and hates trans people, but i do think people are overlooking the fact that this was a kids series. This wasnt meant to be read and deconstructed and analyzed by adults.

When I read the books as a kid I really enjoyed the world. Some things made me pause or think, but for the most part it was a fun adventure. When I read it again in college, I couldn't get through the first or second book because of how poor I found the writing.

But again, it is a children's book. I dont reread Famous Five or Noddy anymore either. I used to love the Redwall series, but when I went back to read a couple last year I found I couldn't get into it as much as I did when I was 10.

Are they the best books or even the best kids books in the world? Definitely not. Is she a brilliant writer? Definitely not. But were the stories engaging and fun and did they give a lot of children an intro to reading and fantasy? 100%. They became popular because even kids who hated reading enjoyed these stories. She might be a miserable awful person now but that doesnt change what these books did for a lot of good people too.

Crappy writing <3

Great teachers are constantly, and exponentially victims of overbearing administration. School administrators tailor to the worst, most immature parents who (I hope) don't realize they are causing a situation where kids can run rampant and completely ignore their education. We do that because the school administrators aren't there because they like kids or see the value of education. They are there because they have a high paid job that they don't really need to work at if they can placate a small handful of very vocal parents and mostly keep up on paperwork and meetings. Those parents are going to figure out just how shitty they've been when their children get to college... College does not have to give a fuck. We've known this for a while. We keep removing rights from the teachers so that administrators don't have to deal with any harsh situations. That might be specific to Ontario but honestly the sheer amount of people working in education here while people in need get denied access to the MANY programs we have makes me think like they're just ignoring us and then bragging about having summers off and going home at 3pm.

I am not being harsh toward teachers. Quite the opposite. It's those involved in education that have little to no experience in it that are clinging to cushy administrative jobs that I take big issue with.

"the ones I spied for weeks"

Words hard, apparently.

What was her problem? She was badly-written.

She didn't want to undermine parental rights for, you know, reasons.

This implies that the students are insured in some way and that the legal system of the wizard world recognizes the same legal guardians of the muggle world AND that wizardy insurance companies are okay with students learning dangerous spells that can result in serious injury without guardian's explicit permission, but does not approve of field trips to safe villages without explicit permission. Or that the crazy, racist, homophobic and transphobic J. k is also dumb.

I did wonder why they needed permission from the people forced to let him go in the first place

The doom is not doomed.