Fantastic Beasts clearly indicates that regular humans DO have to deal with the problems of magical creatures, it’s just that because they’re magical, wizards will come along and erase all knowledge you have of them so that you can’t pass on any information relevant to defending yourselves as non-magical humans. It’s…

Like all wizards, the Weasleys have no problem LITERALLY ERASING THE MEMORIES OF MUGGLES, as well as sending their children to a prestigious boarding school where their every physical need in terms of basic maintenance (food, living space/infrastructure), is maintained by a species kept as slaves. That’s two obvious…

At minimum, all wizards go to a special boarding school that includes an enslaved species that acts as perfect servants, without having to worry about food, or other issues. The fact that Rowling didn’t grasp post-scarcity very well with the fact of magic, and so the Weasleys are poor enough to need hand-me-downs, but…

Rowling had a quite thorough power when it came to the movies however, and if she’d asked them to cast someone black, they certainly would have. At best you can say Rowling was ambiguous about it, because it didn’t particularly matter to her, but to say she saw the character a specific way contradicted by a casting…

I mean, don’t forget “Tropes are not Bad”, but Tropes are not good either. Word of God is one that can help us understand things that are unclear (Dumbledore being gay is possibly one of these), but it can also be a complete fiat that doesn’t make much sense (her statement re: Israel seemed like nonsense to me as…