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Yeah, so when I first picked up the third book when I was eleven and read the title I genuinely thought Harry was going to be a prisoner of Azkaban.

He had already illegally flown a car in the previous book so when I read the title I already had a bad feeling and when he blew up his aunt and ran away from home I was like “Damn… the days of fun magical school adventures are OVER”

Then everyone started talking about the Ministry and Azkaban, and I thought the story was about to become completely different. I was fully prepared for Harry to try to break out of prison like he was Micheal Scofield or something.

I have no idea whether the title was intentionally supposed to mislead readers before Sirius appeared but I genuinely believed this book was going to be a prison drama.

My brother is 16 and Moroccan. He’s been called “sand n***r” online and at school before, and now he sometimes calls himself that or jokes with his Moroccan, Syrian and Arab friends using it. He says he’s reclaiming it because that’s what people call him. I keep telling him he shouldn’t say it because it still contains the N-word and he isn’t Black. He thinks I’m overreacting.
So what’s the general opinion on this? Can someone reclaim that exact slur if it was used against them, or does the N-word make it different?