Yeah Winky the house elf definitely rubbed me up the wrong way for how pitiful she made the condition of freedom seem.
reply> Oh, and Kingsley Shacklebolt is quite an interesting name to give a fictional black person.
I'll be honest this one sailed over my head when I was a kid, I always assumed because he's a magical policeman the Shacklebolt referred to handcuffs. There's a lot of things named along those lines.
> and cunning, greedy creatures with long, hooked noses that run the wizarding bank
replyI don't think they're portrayed as greedy? Although I'm willing to be proven wrong if anyone has textual evidence otherwise. They are also mistreated by wizards in the books, which I think portrayed them sympathetically. I remember scenes where Harry notices their mistreatment and thinks it's wrong
The portrayal was anything but sympathetic when Griphook was slaughtered by Voldemort right after betraying Harry and taking the sword of Gryffindor in his possession.
replyAlso, notice how real world tropes are just portrayed as facts in the Harry Potter world.