Jon Stewart sticking the knife in to JKR over "Jewish" goblins

Yes! It became a running joke (started by my team) that he would be called Paddy. It was on an affectionate way - even my Big Boss used to ask how Paddy was.

I’ve just remembered - when I was pregnant I worked for an Irish organisation. Most colleagues worse Irish. DS (bump) was called ‘Paddy Irish’ by my colleagues ‘how’s wee paddy Irish today?’.

Eek!

" I just assumed she was supposed to be Irish because she kept her own Irish accent in the films"

Didn't Rhys Ifans also adopt an Irish accent to match hers, although he's actually Welsh?

Jumped the gun a bit on that one.

Sometimes when I come across weird threads on twitter I don't know which is more worrying. The though that these people might be just making up what they write (and others are believing them) or the thought that they actually believe it themselves.

It's a real insight into the human brain, twitter. And I don't think I like it very much.

OMG. I've just been taking a trip down the TRA twitter rabbithole, trying to listen to alternative points of view. This is one of the threads that went viral, criticising the Harry Potter books for being bigoted, after that article about Jon Stewart was published.

Let's be honest. If Rowling was not a supporter of Zionism and hadn't been hating on "cancel culture" these naysayers would be trying to have her books pulled off the shelves for this. Chickens are coming home to roost.

Read that again: a supporter of Zionism. So this woman is saying the success of the Harry Potter series is a Jewish plot?!?!?!

Luna is also an Irish character and imo one of the best in the series, no Irish stereotypes at all. Also plenty of the English characters were a bit thick, it's so silly, JK Rowling comes across as such a caring person, these allegations against her are pretty bizarre and a complete character assassination

I know that the actress is Irish but I didn't realise that the character was intended to be. The Lovegoods live in Devon.

Poor Gasp0de

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Someone innocently asked if similar criticisms had been levelled at Tolkien. What they should have done is researched for themselves & presented their findings because nobody ever just asks a question in a conversation. No. That’s not a thing. And absolutely that thread doesn’t descend into “Were Tolkiens Goblins An Antisemitic Trope [& Was Tolkien Generally A Big Racist]?” in any way at all. Definitely not.

Literary analysis of a film? Is that a thing?

(Admittedly I only did English at Literature A-Level.)

I was interested in the number of people on Twitter who claimed to have been Saying This For Years but who’d never mentioned it on said platform until this kicked off despite seemingly tweeting their every thought. There are certainly people who have been saying this for years - but an awful lot of people have been very keen to claim they were in first with this; just as a worrying number have uncritically accepted it must be true & are falling over themselves to say they Need To Do Better.

A number of other films have used Australia House as a location too. Funny nobody has said a peep about say, Wonder Woman or X-Men: first class.

moviemaps.org/locations/b5

Sorry yes @PolkadotsAndMoonbeams (& huge apologies to any Australians) - my attention wandered & I posted when I was in the middle of editing

Flag reform was 1908 & AH wasn’t opened until 10 years later, and while construction had been delayed by WWI the site was only purchased in 1912. Diplomatic Representation in London began in 1906 - it’s entirely possible they’d Grand Plans from then. I imagine simply in practical terms a 6-pointed star would be easier to render than one with 5 or 7 points, too. Regardless, they’re not about to put a big Star of David in the middle of their floor - all the jumping up & down is faintly reminiscent of people having conniptions about seeing swastikas in use in the 1900s-1920s [outside Germany]…

I saw goody Proctor with the Devil. I saw goody Rowling with the Devil.

Who's next, I wonder?

Maybe self protection, but I also don't think JS wants people to use him as source/tool to beat a stick at JKR. I felt that was he was objecting to the most. He clearly loves the films too.

Yes, that came across, Bunty. He had the chance to say 'I love the films, but...' like you're supposed to, and he didn't. It's a distraction and a trap and he didn't let himself get caught out.

He doesn't need to apologise for liking HP or wade into anything, just like Oswald didn't about being mates with Chappelle (but unfortunately chose to)

He had a swarthy, clever face, a pointed beard, and Harry noticed, very long fingers and feet

Apart from the feet and beard, it sounds like Snape.

'In Rowling's hugely successful books and the subsequent films, the goblins who run the bank are depicted as ill tempered, diminutive creatures who are the guardians of the gold.

The first book describes one as "about a head shorter than Harry".

"He had a swarthy, clever face, a pointed beard, and Harry noticed, very long fingers and feet," it says.'

www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59893206