JK - she’s done it now

[Butchyrestingface]

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

*in the public eye

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).

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 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...

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?