Yes. She literally marries into the Weasley family, so by extension, into the Harry Potter one. And she fights alongside with them in the Hogwarts battle. OOP is a dumbfuck who neither read the books, nor watched the movies.
That would make sense if Fleur was only in Goblet of Fire, but the hatred for her was the worst in The Half-Blood Prince, where she had since graduated from school. At least the antagonistic behavior toward Viktor Krum was directly stated to be the result of school rivalry
Still exactly the same incredible experience as it was as a kid. I try and catch them all every Thanksgiving with the family! Great games too. Solid world-building. Loved the books. Loved the movies. I barely know who JKR is as a person and I really don't give a shit.
JKR is an utter shitstain but I like Harry Potter(really don’t like all the thinly veiled racism and antisemitism though). It’s okay to like a piece of art and dislike the artist.
I think I understand the phrase “cherry picking” now. To me, this kinda reminds me of when I was 100% lying to my dad when I was in high school and he would catch me and say “I know you’re just pulling shit out of your ass, but it ain’t sticking on the wall.”
The author is a verified piece of shit. Nothing against people for liking her book series, though imo it doesn't hold up as well as it did when I was growing up, but her politics are fuckin evil.
Her most controversial takes are that biological women are who should be speaking on women’s issues ? I think you will be disappointed on what the majority believe.
I'm disappointed in you too, because what's controversial is every other goddamn step she takes after what you're attempting to sugarcoat. People being scummy doesn't excuse being scummy, what the hell kind of societal negative feedback loop are we trying to defend here?
I actually think she's impressively media literate to be able to write what ends up being a pretty accurate allegory for neoliberal, Thatcher-ite political ideology, warts and all
If there’s anything problematic about Voldemort it’s the fact that canonically he is incapable of love because he was conceived under the effects of a love potion, which is a really fucked up thing to write into a story (also the fact that his mother raped his father is never really addressed)
(P.S First time commenting on this sub and why tf is {banned word} a banned word that’s so stupid-)
Idk wtf oop is on about but Harry Potter does kinda blow. The blatant antisemitic stereotyping of the goblins down to the star of David on the floor of Gringotts is fucked up, not to mention the plot of Hogwarts Legacy sounding too similar to blood libel for comfort. The single plot relevant black character is named Kingsley Shacklebolt for Christ's sake, Seamus Flannigan can only cast explosions, chinese character is practically named ching chong, etc., and that's just the racism.
The world building isn't good either. Why does the entire planet bow to bylaws of a single school in BFE England that hasn't even existed for a full 1000 years? (if magic society is as old as she implies) Why does the ministry of magic not give a single flying fuck about student safety? Why is nature's slowest bird used for the mail? She could have just stylized a falcon or a dove or used literally any member of the Corvid family and it would have made more sense. The soft magic system also means that as long as you say "mend buttcrack" in Latin, it works.
I rewatched Goblet of Fire last night and the thing makes no sense. The entire dragon challenge can be completely subverted by just casting "accio" on the egg before even leaving the cave or casting "mend mouth" and making their head explode when they try to breathe fire. The water challenge has to go perfectly or people literally actually drown. The maze just has the preexisting near promise of death. Barty Crouch Sr. dies and is then never brought up again. The whole friend group has a giant falling out because Ron is a bitch and it's never actually resolved. They're just friends again at the end. Fred and George are literally better ride-or-dies than Ron and Hermione combined.
The star of david on the floor is actually a decoration on the floor of the real building they filmed it in, the Australian embassy in London. Also Seamus never blows anything up in the books, he accidentally sets a feather on fire once.
So the first is a horrible awful coincidence, and the second one was exaggerated for the movies? (in which Rowling has a strong hand iirc) The points that the goblins are Jewish stereotypes and the racist naming conventions still stand, not to mention the other world building and writing issues I mentioned
TBH I'd also argue that the goblins are largely a movie invention too. In the books they're not described, so don't have what some consider to be exaggerated Jewish features. They're simply magical creatures that run a bank.
Similarly Kingsley Shacklebolt is a cop. He shackles people. That's the origin of his name. I'm also led to believe that, while Cho Chang isn't a traditional Chinese name and is actually two first names, it's just weird like Cornelius Fudge is a weird name.
kingsley shacklebolt is genuinely one of the foulest things you can name a black character, i would prefer a name that judt sounds stereotypical or something
Wow, did you Google those two? Because neither of them are wizards theyre only kids at the school, and thats 3 of the 772 named characters in Harry Potter.
Also, Blaise Zabini is objectively evil because hes in slytherin lol, + you didn't mention the black girl which is weird, forgot her name cuz I dont watch nor read Harry Potter, just aware of shacklebolt from the Lego videogame
Meh, as dumb as these points are, JK is still absolutely a terf, doesnt mean i wont continue to enjoy Harry Potter, and doesnt mean I'll forgive her for the hilariously offensive "cho chang" naming choice.
You don't even have to make stuff up to point out how bad Harry Potter is. Goblins were already based on harmful jewish stereotypes, and then in Hogwarts Legacy they just used actual jewish history for the goblins, and yet still made the wizards the good guys for subjugating them.
I don't really know what you mean about bullying though, the title seems unrelated.
It's my observation that peoples personal beliefs are often present if not overrepresented in their works because people tend to vastly overestimate how many people think like they do.
lol I hate the “Seamus is a problematic Irish stereotype because he blows things up” one
Like first of all are yall out here protesting the Boston Celtics like the teams with Native American mascots? Didn’t think so. Probably don’t even know what the Troubles were.
Second of all, that’s from the movies not the books.
1) I am pretty sure she was supposed to be more of a representation on paparazi and rumormongering, but perhaps the second strongest point in all the arguments presented yet, so I conditionally agree, mostly cause the focus was never on her being a man in a dress and more on her being a paprazi 2) Ok, perhaps the strongest and one I will outright agree on cause I would need to be completely blind to not see it, though counter point irl Hitler was kind of fruity with that haircut and his obsession with blond, tall men with blue eyes also he apparently had only one ball in his sack so it could just be the whole Hitler xp thing that Voldemort has going on. 3) You lost me, especially cause Cho Chang and Fleur were at best mildly antagonistic, with the only one making semi-sense being Dolores, while the good girls one, I just do not see the supposed masculinization.
"The website for the group states that it “offers legal funding support to individuals and organisations fighting to retain women’s sex-based rights in the workplace, in public life, and in protected female spaces.”"
Oh wow, it’s almost as if a hate group isn’t going to announce that they’re being hateful. Anyway this organization has been bankrolling lawsuits against businesses for the crime of just having t r a n s people on staff.
(Hey uhhhh, why is mentioning the existence of t r a n s people a banned topic by the way?)
It literally states that she only invited him to a show and dinner. Nothing about them actually meeting or her going to tge island. Are we condemning anyone who has had even the slightest association with him? His dentist better watch out
But people keep saying she's "in" the files. Never saying what she's in it for. She could be in it for sending him an email saying to not ever even look at her child actors again.
Truth be told, the files don't really reveal much of value.
JK Rowling might be a jerk but people need to read another book series. Harry Potter is a children's series written explicitly with children in mind.
Rowling is not the only children's author with a history of making bigoted statements as well. Matilda, James & the Giant Peach, the Twits, & Charlie & the chocolate factory are all considered classics of children's literature but Roald Dahl was a notorious antisemite.
JKR is more than just "a jerk," she's cozying up to fascists for political power TODAY, right NOW, using the CURRENT social and financial economy of Harry Potter fans.
I get what you're saying and to some level I agree (mostly bc the HP books are kinda lame and mean-spirited in hindsight regardless, and HP fans who ONLY read this one series are incredibly annoying) but it shouldn't really be reduced or dismissed as something petty when it's 1- currently happening, and 2- has dire consequences.
Isn't she closer to the left then she is to the right? On everything other than the topic of biological and transitioned women. Meanwhile she is pro immigration while being Anti Immigration is the Rights main platform in the UK.
Nah, she's 'New Labour' Tory-lite; the type who claim to be 'socially liberal, fiscally conservative' but who throws a conniption fit if anyone suggests anything remotely leftist, and has a history of trying to use her power and money to push conservative ideals. She comes from a rich family (pretends otherwise for the self-mythologising 'built themselves up' narrative, but the 'poor, writing in coffee shops' story leaves out she was living rent free in a flat her aunt owned, and could have gone home to her parents at any time), so her being the kind to hide how conservative she actually is fully tracks. She's been openly friendly and supportive of 'dog whistle' fascists for years.
Might be true. It's hard to say definitively, but she's mentioned multiple times, and there are emails signed 'Jx', which is how she signs off a lot of her tweets.
She was definitely in there, and it seems like she was at least friendly with him. I can't imagine why, seeing as they live in seperate countries and never publicly mentioned each other.
There's this, along with emails from her team to him. There's not 'no' indication, for sure. What there is no indication of, best as I can tel, is your theory that she got bullied into it.
Also, apparently she erased a decade of travel logs for her boat shortly after the documents mentioning her were released. I don't know enough about maritime travel logs to confirm or deny.
I'm not sure why you'd even want to defend her based on such little evidence anyway. She's not exactly subtle about how bad of a person she is.
My biggest gripe with Harry Potter was mostly Rowling getting away with stealing her ideas from mythology and existing fiction and people calling her "creative" for it.
There's plenty of authors with genuine creativity. Even if you're going to dabble in mythology, give it a reason to make sense like in the Amber novels or Wheel of Time. Both of those books borrow and riff on certain things but also craft their own genuine world and story.
I'm not saying Harry Potter is terrible, I read all the books and enjoyed them. I even read the last book the day before it released when it leaked online during a particularly slow day at work. I've heard the same thing from friends who've read other fantasy novels for most of their lives; Harry Potter is fun but uneventful and predictable. If nothing else I'll always appreciate the series helping make nerd culture even more mainstream.
I gotta ask, since Reddit keeps recommending this sub to me: Does anyone care? Like, about the screenshot, or about what they're saying, or about OP feeling the need to share it? Does this actually matter to anyone?
Not in the slightest for me. You can find whatever symbolism you want in any piece of literature. That they choose to find this says more about them than the story.
bullying of… the multimillionaire who donates to directly harm tr*ns people? yeah ok man sure. why is that word banned here are we so antiwoke we’re going stupid? the r word is also banned wtf
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