Good evening, does the Harry Potter fandom even still exist on here?
The gist I’ve gotten is: “yes, but we’re mostly struggling under the weight of JKR turning out to be a turd”. Valid and I empathize. I won’t suggest trying to divorce Harry & Co. from her clutches because I feel like her bigoted views are stained throughout the series in little insidious ways, so it’d be impossible, but: it’s okay to still hold onto the parts that made you happy, especially the people you’ve met along the way because of it.
ANYWAY! It’s good to see you all still hanging in there, I hope you’re well and safe and, if possible, vaccinated!
Except JKR wasn’t a TERF when she wrote HP. She wasn’t always like that. She was a normal person who got radicalised.
Saying she was “always a bigot” kind of absolves people of accountability because if you think “this person was always bad, but I am good” you ignore the fact that being radicalised can happen to you too.
It doesn’t absolve anyone of accountability, tho? At all? Nor do I agree that she was seemingly radicalized overnight. If you glance through HP, it’s teeming with underhanded isms, from the Cho Chang debacle, her use of goblins in banks, Rita Skeeter’s initial description and overall role that hints at JK’s transphobia, trying to pass lycanthropy as an allegory for HIV, etc. etc. These are not hallmarks of someone whose moral compass has always pointed north, and it was all very easy to miss because none of it was as overt as her Twitter statements were. Statements that I personally feel have always been simmering under her skin, but she bided her time to unleash them. I mean, HP is OVER over, she got Cursed Child out of the way, she ran Pottermore so far into the ground no one even spares it a visit, and Johnny Depp already annihilated the FB series by association. She finally had nothing to lose by speaking her mind.
If you feel differently, that’s fine. I don’t think it really matters how she got there in the end. The sad fact is she did and she’s dug her heels so far in that she’s grown roots. All we can do now is [Bailey Sarian voice] Get better idols.
Good evening, does the Harry Potter fandom even still exist on here?
The gist I’ve gotten is: “yes, but we’re mostly struggling under the weight of JKR turning out to be a turd”. Valid and I empathize. I won’t suggest trying to divorce Harry & Co. from her clutches because I feel like her bigoted views are stained throughout the series in little insidious ways, so it’d be impossible, but: it’s okay to still hold onto the parts that made you happy, especially the people you’ve met along the way because of it.
ANYWAY! It’s good to see you all still hanging in there, I hope you’re well and safe and, if possible, vaccinated!
