ah yes the author, the ultimate and indomitable role of authorship okay let’s talk about this shall we
i have here a pdf of hp: deathly hallows and on page 610, up until which point every slytherin says nothing, pansy parkinson shouts ‘“but he’s there! potter’s there! someone grab him!”. paraphrasing now, but the main gist is that every house pulls their wands on the slytherins and they are forcefully told my mcgonagall to fuck off back to their domitory. i don’t know about you son but i don’t see any signs of a fucking democracy here. it was poorly handled and no slytherin - no slytherin - was allowed to say anything except one of the ones that it has been drilled into us all the way through the books is nothing but a bad egg. none spoke up to say i want to fight, or anything else at all. that’s nothing but poor writing.

but of course she’s j k rowling. she is the author and therefore has total authority and can do no wrong. oh but wait how about the erasure of any form of individuality or personality in cho chang in favour of her crying over white males and falling back on asian tropes. yeah real nice.
also other instances include neville longbottom being terrified by snape, the form which his boggart took, and nothing being done about this. then there’s dumbledore’s distinct lack of background checks and safety regulations i mean come on. but seriously, the amount of shit that just goes on under dumbledore’s nose is fucking ludicrous. j k rowling is not the be all and end all of literature, and she makes mistakes, and she has written things poorly.
i suggest you stop telling people to be passive consumers, accept the process of interpretation by individuals as an important component of reading a text and try reading the death of the author. it’s very good