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  Harry Potter is by far the most popular thing in pop culture to analyze. Even Star Wars has less than 10% of the fanfiction.
  Digging into the books, and analyzing every detail is not new in the slightest, and has been going on since well before Rowling's infamy, it was happening well before the books were finished, even! People have written fanfics comparable in length to the books, and fanfiction on every element imaginable. At this point most any random take on the setting you can imagine probably exists. I'd be completely unsurprised if there was a fanfic where Harry reincarnates as an elf. 
  Wait, what the hell, I wrote that as a joke, and it turns out it's a whole category of fanfiction
  My point is, yes, Rowling's current reputation might have brought some more attention, but it was never lacking in the first place, obsessive analysis of all things HP has long been a thing.
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  House elves enjoying slavery and Hermione being mocked for SPEW: The house elves are brainwashed into thinking that they enjoy slavery, but it’s clearly presented to the reader how mistreated they are, even by the “good guys” like Sirius. I really grew to appreciate Hermione being mocked for SPEW by the other students, because she ends up being right-Kreacher betrays Sirius because he feels no loyalty to him. Dumbledore acknowledges it. Also, Sirius acknowledges it in GOF with Crouch mistreating Winky. It’s an interesting subplot.
  
  I actually agree with your broader point and the other examples, but strongly disagree with this one, the SPEW plot did end up being grossly pro-slavery.
  Kreacher's betrayal didn't justify SPEW's position, it justified the enslaver Dumbledore's position that people should be kinder to those they enslave. The end of the story is still Harry keeping Kreacher in enslaved status. Hermione ends up working for the Ministry to pass laws for the better treatment of enslaved elves.
  The underlying message is absolutely that young Hermione's radical abolitionist position was just as misguided as Sirius's casual disgregard of house elves, and that the truth is somewhere in the middle. >
  
  I do actually agree with your point, I didn’t even consider it in that way that yeah, the slaves still exist. Dumbledore offers wages to Dobby because he asks but it’s not like he offers it to any of the others freely. I’d mostly just appreciated that Sirius’s cruelty ended up being his downfall. Tbh Dumbledore is a dick anyways. 
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  Also, Sirius acknowledges it in GOF with Crouch mistreating Winky. It’s an interesting subplot. 
  
  You missed a major part of that plot ending mate. The plot resolution to slavery of a sapient race is that the slave owners should be nicer to their slaves. Not that they shouldn't have slaves. Not that slavery is bad. The house elfs aren't freed. Harry Potter doesn't even free his own slave at the end of the book. No, the conclusion is that slavery is perfectly find, so long as you treat your slaves well. And that is bullshit. And it's major bullshit at that. Calling it out on that is not nickpicking >
  
  I gave a delta to someone on this point already >
  
  I mean, do some people do this? Yes. But one person's nitpick is another person's obvious bigotry; I know even before the transphobia came out people were giving her shit for SPEW and for carelessly bringing up HIV/AIDS in regards to her werewolf characters. (Plus, I mean, even if she only meant illnesses that carry a stigma in general it is not a great look to have one of two people who have the  'illness with a stigma' be obsessed with giving that illness to children) >
  
  A quick Google search reveals discussions on the problematic nature of these topics going back at least a decade, and that's just what's at the top of the online list. You might say that Rowling's open transphobia has renewed scrutiny and brought more attention to the topics, but it definitely didn't create them