It's like they haven't read any books since HP. Don't get me wrong, I loved the series myself - I remember counting down the days to the release of each next book! - but there are other books.
God, yes, I remember counting down the days until the next Harry Potter book. I was 21 when the last one was released and my dad had pre-ordered two copies at Waterstones. He always bought a copy each for me and my brother since the Prisoner of Azkaban, when we fought bitterly over who got to read it first.
Anyway, I told myself I wasn't going to go to Waterstones at midnight because that would be absolutely mad, but as it happened I was working a shift as a waitress that night and finished just before midnight, so I went along and queued up with all the children, got my book, and then went home and read through the night.
Now I wait for the next Strike book with similar excitement and anticipation, which I think is a testament to how good her stories are.
If JK had taken completely the opposite position to the one she has, and diametrically disagreed with me, I quite simply wouldn't have cared about it to the degree the trans activists do.
Same.
One that really disappoints me is Philip Pullman, who has decided to join the TWAW camp and has said some pretty nasty stuff about GC feminists on Twitter. It does make me see him in a different light as a person, but I'm not harassing him on Twitter, and I still enjoy his books.
The really annoying thing is that his Sally Lockhart series is one of my all time favourites, and she is one of the best female characters ever, who would have been a card carrying TERF! She's a young woman living in Victorian London who defies all the gender stereotypes. She doesn't sing, paint or play the piano, but she speaks Hindi, can shoot and run a business. She goes to Cambridge but isn't awarded a degree because she is a woman. She sets up a financial consulting business and has to work really hard to find clients to take her seriously because she is a woman. She gets pregnant by a man who dies in an accident before they can get married and raises her child as a single, unmarried mother, whilst also running her business. In the third book she receives a divorce petition from a man she has never heard of, who is claiming that he is married to her and the father of her child, that she has abandoned him, and is seeking control of her assets and custody of her daughter. Her own lawyer doesn't believe her when she says she has never heard of this man and doesn't know why he is doing this, and consistently advises her to defend the allegations made against her in the divorce petition in the hope that the judge will be lenient with her and allow her to retain some of her money and still see her child, forcing her to go into hiding while she tries to find out what the hell is going on. Literally the whole series is about her fighting against the gendered stereotypes imposed on her due to her sex, and everything that is done to her is only possible because she is female.
I genuinely do not understand how you can write a character like that, and then, 30 years later, claim that trans women are women and gender critical feminists are hateful bigots.