JK - she’s done it now

In here books she preaches love and excepting everyone, used the lgbtq community for sales... Dumbledore being gay. The she turned on the community.

Which is more supportive of the same-sex attracted community, someone affirming the existence of biological sex or someone trying to erase it?

I feel like I really missed out not knowing if the Cat in the Hat was pansexual or ace.

Me too. Also, I think there should have been a little more clarity instead of just leaving it with nothing more than innuendo about Thing 1 and Thing 2 being same-thing attracted.

When Harry Potter first came out the vicar down the road from me had the vapours in the local press. Good v evil.

I caught a lift once with a Christian family, (parents and their 12ish? daughter), and in the conversation it came up somehow that she wasn't allowed to read Harry Potter because of all the witchcraft. (And maybe all the using LGBT to sell books which had escaped me at the time). A bit later, the girl pulled out a comic book, which to my surprise was "Sabrina the Teenage Witch." (an old series that's been around since the 70's). Apparently that had been a favorite of her mom's when she was young. Go figure...

Odd, isn’t it?

Not so long ago, there was frothing because Noddy was in bed with Big Ears (they had a problem with that name, too).

Now JKR is criticised because Dumbledore isn’t explicitly in bed with Grindelwald.

I now just assume that everyone is a bit stupid so anyone in the public eye showing the audacity to being able to think independently is a bonus.

(That's not healthy either).

*in the public eye

The amount of people in the public I once admired who have disappointed me by having no empathy whatsoever for women and girls! I should be writing 45 tweet threads about how devastated I am.

It's not healthy.

Copy of Twitter post I found. Disturbing around how much some have emotionally invested in JKR and HP, and how intertwined fact and fiction in the Fandom world is. This post was giving advice to a mum who wondered if she could still read HP to trans young child, and how could she explain JKRs behaviour....see below.

'I would also talk to them about all the trans affirming things in Harry Potter despite JK Rowling's beliefs. Like Dobby gained freedom through wardrobe expression, moaning Myrtle used a gender neutral bathroom, Harry Potter determined his own identity instead of the sorting hat..'

There seems a lot of genuine distress from many Fandom people. Demanding apologies, detailing what JKR must do to atone. They are reacting as if their whole life story is under attack, like finding out your mum planted a bomb in a gay bar, or your grandma was a guard in a concentration camp.

if you are going to obsess over a famous figure and their work, it's always better to do it with a dead one, who isn't going to dissapointed with pesky opinions and views.

I think the TA is not a parody account but he wrote that particularly stupid post as a wind up to "transphobes" he says it in his answers somewhere.

Yes that was what I thought. A troll rather than a parody.

The role of neglect and subsequent grooming on Credence's development are also warnings. See @richardjgarside on twitter: "Here's a thread with numerous examples of how we are creating the crime problems we then expect the police to pick up."

twitter.com/RichardJGarside/status/1220625049847304193?s=19

Totalitarisnism is definitely on JKR's mind. The "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" setting/period is very much in the interwar period of fascism rising. Credence in the mountains at the end of film 2 was a clear nod to the Eagle's Nest, and there's more than a hint of Hitler in C's flattened black hair and agonised look.

I think the TA is not a parody account but he wrote that particularly stupid post as a wind up to "transphobes" he says it in his answers somewhere.

Fahrenheit 451 is not a how to manual any more than 1984 is but there always seems to be some who read them and relate to the authoritarians instead of the protagonists.

JellySlice, you might like this bit of fan fiction.
www.fanfiction.net/s/12550911/1/Harry-Potter-and-the-Dogfather
I found it delightful.

I agree about the implications in constant mentions of Hermione's bushy brown hair.
It reminded me of how offended people were that a black girl played a black girl in the Hunger Games film.

Sorry for my caps shouting - if you carry on reading down the thread the “TA” says more and more outrageous things, including that they made a student eat a book. It’s trolling. It’s CRAZY that we are in this situation that it’s so hard to tell (I had to check)

Are you pissed

Actually laughed at that 😂😂

How do you know. There seems to be a Linked In profile of someone from the same place and with the same name.

THE TA IS A PARODY ACCOUNT

That TA is lying.

I work in a school; I don't care where the school is, TA's are not allowed to destroy school property, nor commit violent acts of book destruction in front of students :)

Someone's indulging in a little fantasy.

I'm petty sure Big Ears was making a living in gay porn. I'm not sure why there wasn't a story about that, "Noddy Visits the Film Studio."

Beware. It's now the Very Hungry Human Centipede.

The first book DD ever chose in reception to bring home for me to read was 'The Life Cycle of the Snail'

biological reality without being cisheteronormative.

(And I hasten to add she subsequently chose most of this delightful series so has no confusion betwixt molluscs and mammals)

Can’t we blame Biff and Chip for adolescent gender confusion.

🤣

I think public school there means state school

Jane is cisheteronormative.

Don't even start me on the Famous Five go to Billycock Hill.

The TA seems to be based in New York State. Public school will mean something different, and presumably more woke than Eton.