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A review by suzmccurry
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
5.0
My daughter ordered me to re-read her favourite Harry Potter book and so I did. I'm (obviously) displeased with J.K. Rowling but there is something about Harry Potter books that are so comforting during difficult times. I just find these books so damn soothing! I can't help it.
But it was useful to re-read this one, because I can hopefully have some conversations with my Harry Potter-obsessed child about some of the problematic elements in these books, now that they're fresh in my mind. Aside from Rowling being anti-trans, there are also the goblins (yikes), and in this book and Goblet of Fire, the issue of the house elves. Hermione is basically made to feel foolish here because the house elves (Dobby aside) want to remain enslaved?!? Oy.
But it was useful to re-read this one, because I can hopefully have some conversations with my Harry Potter-obsessed child about some of the problematic elements in these books, now that they're fresh in my mind. Aside from Rowling being anti-trans, there are also the goblins (yikes), and in this book and Goblet of Fire, the issue of the house elves. Hermione is basically made to feel foolish here because the house elves (Dobby aside) want to remain enslaved?!? Oy.