Holy shit I just realized why Goblins in Harry Potter made me so weirded out in their portrayal.

According to the books goblins

Have big pointy noses

Are short

Are pale and stay inside more than wizards

Are in mainly in charge of the wizard banks and economy

Don’t traditionally use surnames in their culture

Are viewed by most as greedy and malicious.

Are seen as inferior

Does anyone else see the how closely this matches antisemitic stereotypes? And it’s not like they are portrayed well either. So ya that matched with the fact that despite the books basically being a huge metaphor for the holocaust there is only 1 jew (who honestly could have been left out of the story since he is completely unimportant) seems really icky