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In this scenario, why is the reader "letting" their daughter do anything?

Presumably if she's old enough to have sex and get pregnant, she's old enough to give consent or withhold it. (If she's too young to give consent, then the sex should be forbidden and prevented based on age alone.)

How come the question is not, "You and a Palestinian are the last people on earth. Do you reproduce with each other?"

Nope, the question has to include a creepy paternalistic attitude towards a hypothetical innocent young girl under her parent's control.

I agree. Many people are imagining, "instead of using his vast wealth to fix the world, he dedicates all his money and mental energy to an elaborate bunker that will ensure his survival in a specific apocalyptic scenario he believes is likely to happen."

It might be more like, "amongst all the random wealthy-person shit he's bought, there are guns and motorcycles (because he thinks they are cool) as well as a pantry full of canned food (because everyone should have an emergency kit and you never know).

But I could be wrong.

Not even a grown-up book! Read a different magical fantasy book aimed at children or teenagers. And see how good those are, too. Many of them were written before Harry Potter.

I do think HP is good at the pacing and mystery aspect of it. The magical world isn't really that alluring, unless you are a 12 year old kid in 2001 who never read another book until now.

Reminds me of JD Vance.

Some people first glom onto left-leaning causes and opinions. They advocate for open-mindedness and human rights for all. They might even get really into the righteous purity of it all, where they get to criticize others for not being progressive enough.

But then maybe they don't get satisfaction out of that for long. Maybe they find that another leftist is criticizing them for their wrong-headed views. Maybe they aren't getting enough cookies for being a feminist.

So they switch over the right-leaning side of things. Maybe that allows them to be more openly hateful.

Or maybe they just changed their minds.

Honestly, I don't know much about Rowling's beliefs other than being a TERF. Maybe she supports all other "feminist" and anti-racist and left-leaning progressive causes. Perhaps she didn't go all-in on the likes of Trump, the way Vance did.

But you'd never know, since all she talks about is being anti-trans.

Thank you for your genuine and educational response!

It would be funny if earwax could be expelled intentionally, by clenching our ears and extruding a big ol tube of wax.