JK Rowling's latest retcon draws criticism from fans
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Because he's a Parseltongue and Slytherin and has a connection with snakes?
Maybe we should wait until the movie actually comes out before we start calling people racist for what they put in their movies that nobody has seen yet, hm?
There will be plenty of time to be angry online after the movie comes out, and there's plenty of things to be angry about now. We don't really need to jump the gun here, do we?
There will be plenty of time to be angry online after the movie comes out, and there's plenty of things to be angry about now. We don't really need to jump the gun here, do we?
Chosen one and the hottest of the original cast.Could be worse
10/10 living his best life.
Why would Voldemort ,who only made his Horcuxes out of special magical objects, just put a piece of his soul in a random snake? It makes sense that the snake was somewhat special.
Honestly people just want to complain about shit. This enriches the world and will make my next re-read more fun.
Honestly people just want to complain about shit. This enriches the world and will make my next re-read more fun.
Admittedly, if it was his pet snake from when he was kid and only friend or something like that?
both could work really.
I just don't like how it makes it seem like Nagini is cursed and has a horrible fate considering that Rowling made it seem that Nagini and Voldemort actually had a loving pet relationship.
Also true. I said this in the last thread about it, but if this counts as a retcon, it's only the mildest of retcon. The only change is that the assumption Dumbledore made about Nagini was wrong.
So he finds all of this special magic stuff to use as a horcrux and then just a snake that he found?
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Mmm yes we haven't even started discussing the fact that she gave Voldemort a daughter. Whew.
Again
The whole let's take an actress from the area that Nagas are from to play up the connection for a character named after Nagas works.
the whole let's just assume everything in Asia is the same like we're XIXth century colonial masters? Fuck that.
I mean. Belatrix wanting to fuck Voldemort was pretty explicit in the books. J.K revealing that didn't really change anything.
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Yes? Every horcrux has a meaning to Voldemort, and I assumed Nagini simply represented his connection and ability to talk to snakes.
Not that he chose her because she was once a human who was cursed omg what a tragique past
For me that will always be Yoshio Sakamoto and no I'm never going to shut up about Metroid Other M.
And then Dumbledore revealed the snake was a Horcrux. Citing her abnormal behavior as the reason for his suspicion
And now it turns out Dumbledore was just wrong and didn't know or consider the possibility that she was a Maledictus before sending Harry and Co. On a death quest to kill.
It's a bad retcon. It's not super terrible but it is bad
Hopefully there's deeper connection between Voldemort and Nagini or yeah it's a George Lucas move.
That's not really a retcon, though. "Dumbledore made an assumption, and it was incorrect" is just expanding on the story.
Given that JK has made a big song and dance about Dumbledore being Gay without actually showing it, I hope that she does that shit.
Now that will rile up the LBGT community, with JK making some nonsensical excuse to justify it.
You're missing the point, people aren't mad about the damn snake having a backstory. They're mad about the fact in a series about Wizards and racism, with Voldemort being a Hitler stand in, but the heroes are all white with PoC given background character roles or written unfavorably.
JK doesn't care about creating a diverse world and will only mention it off hand but not show it while picking and matching other people culture because it will be a good fit for her world.
She was already called out for how she showcased Native Americans in her world, causally mentioning Dumbledore being gay or South Asian Wizards riding flying carpets.
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The articles I linked address these. She is indeed part of a circus, and one of the article addresses the fact that we have yet another "deadly dragon lady" Asian woman.
Remember when she literally made a Nazi house and explicit stated in the book that none of them stayed to be good people and fight for the right side.... only to then state oh no no no remember on page xyz when I said kids.... those kids were totes returning Slytherin.... yeah... that's right.
We don't know anything. How the hell do you know how Nagini is written as a character.
Um, ackshually, Grindewald is the Hitler stand in, right down to him being causing havoc across Europe during the forties until Dumbeldore defeated him in 1945,
Nah, magic gives her a lot flexibility in coming up with some insulting BS ideas.
Like we don't need more Voldemort stuff in this series, we had 7 books and 8 movies giving everything we needed to know about him and his backstory, we don't need the connective tissue other than for braindead idiots in the audience to point at and marvel. Unless they tie her existence into the theme of Newt's journey and growth, this is just needless fanservice.
If she's a secret magical ninja I legit give up on this series.
But it contradicts nothing. Thus, it's not a retcon by the most commonly used definition.
Makes sense, Harry Potter is pretty much Star Wars but with Wizards.
Interestingly both series also suffer from diversity problem, though Star Wars is at least attempting to fix that.