better not ask J.K.Rowling how many ex-Schutzstaffels were given high ranked positions in Hogwarts and in the Deutsches Ministerium für Magie late 1945.
All the Jewish characters in the Potter universe are named Goldstein because they all come from the same family
… and the name of the only chinese character is “Cho Chang”. i honestly dont give a shit about anything rowling ever said or didnt said about trans stuff, but calling harry potter “good writing” or “not racist” … idk if i should laugh or cry.
That has more to do with the bank they filmed at than anything. Still a hilariously unfortunate coincidence.
According to Rowling there is exactly one Jewish student
Named Anthony Goldstein
I really wish this to be true, getting divorced over Harry Potter is the most millennial shit I’ve ever heard.
Consider being a JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure fan instead
Given the practice of Jewish mysticism and tales of golems and the like, it wouldn’t be hard for a good writer to incorporate Jewish magic schools and students into such a setting. Barbara Hambly did an interesting take on the subject, but she never finished that series. FYI: if you read the Suncross books, some language and tropes have not aged well. Still, it was made with love.
The Sun-Cross series is the one where a wizard has to escape the Nazis who reverse-isekaied him into our world, right? Was there jewish mysticism in the book? Haven’t read it myself but I literally just read a critic describing it as an interesting experiment with/subversion of the portal-quest fantasy subgenre (instead of being directly told about the true nature of the world by reliable wise sage figures (eg. Gandalf, Aslan), the protagonist has to actively question and interpret the world around him to find out the truth (ie. the holocaust)).
That is the book, yes. There’s a Jewish wizard in the second book. He’s honestly delightful, even if he’s at points a bit of a trope.
