JKR being magnificent on twitter again

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Just thought I'd pop this here for anyone who doesn't browse twitter regularly. I don't myself but found it via a FB group that supports JKR.

I bloody love this woman. Plus I have bought an insane amount of HP merch over the last few years in support of her, as well as the Strike books and all the new editions of HP that pop up, so I am happy to think of those royalty cheques having some of my pennies in!

Yep agree. My DD is at secondary school and there's still plenty of love for HP there, and also quite a bit of eye rolling for the gender wooo. Probably is relevant that there's a trans child in her form, who is apparently a PITA to pretty much everyone. Daughter and friends just mind their own business and steer clear of the drama!

So to misquote Norma Desmond “JK Rowling’s still big- it’s the minds that have got small”.

I’ve just discovered my childrens class teacher is following and liked that post!!

The tide is turning. A friend messaged me today about the prisons and how she didn’t know that Mtf can end up in female prisons with their tackle. Thought it was disgraceful. The knowledge is spreading.

Rowling’s latest is on track to be one of the top-selling books of the years. HP still selling in droves too. Just saying 👍

I'm really not a fan of her writing, I read the first 2 HP books and just didn't get it.

But I still purchase on kindle everything of hers. Love her.

Reading HP as bedtime stories nearly killed me. They just go on and on

but I have to say the Strike series is BRILLIANT. Each book is bloody long but I’ve zipped through the first 5 in no time. I switch between Robert Glenister reading them to me on Audible while I’m cooking or driving, and reading a (second hand) paper back copy at bed time

Robert Glenister is a properly good actor

and I strongly suspect I’m going to end up buying book 6 new and in hardback as well as audio book

I think most of JKR’s latest royalty cheque may have been from me

I only bought Troubled Blood to see what the fuss was about and liked it so much that I bought the whole series 😍

When I try and think about how rich JK Rowling is, my mind is actually blown. Any time I go to Kings Cross, there is always a big queue to get the photo with the trolley and there is also the shop next door. Then there is the Harry Potter Studios in Watford and Harry Potter World at Universal. The merch and copywright for anything HP related. All the books and spin off books. The films. Fantastic Beasts. The Cursed Child theatre production. The Strike books and TV series.

I have always wondered how her money is delivered to her - like, does she just get a cheque each month, what kind of bank accounts does she have, does she have a banking app like everyone else?! It's mad!

And the thing about it all is that the only reason she is so wealthy is because people love her work so much. No other reason. People don't have to queue for ages at King's Cross, they don't have to spend loads of money to visit the Harry Potter studios, they do it because they want to. Harry Potter is still huge among young kids, and in the real world in which I exist, no one gives a flying fuck about her 'impure' opinions.

She is an unapologetically successful, clever, funny WOMAN and my god don't those losers bashing away at a keyboard in the dark at 2am absolutely despise her for it.

No, I didn't get Harry Potter either, I never understood how grown adults were so into it, i didnt care about any of the characters and I never thought the writing was that great. But she obviously still created something very special, even if I personally didn't like it!

However, I absolutely love the Strike books and Troubled Blood is one of my all time favourite books.

I don’t think she’s a brilliant writer, but I do think she’s a great story teller, which may be part of why her stuff has adapted so well to TV and film.

Me too, but I also adored HP and queued for her new books as they came out back in the day. She was also instrumental in my severely dyslexic daughter learning to read. She queued to get the cursed child. My other Dd adored HP too.

The rest of it’s from me, then, Bernard.

We even have the first four books in French (brilliant for reluctant GCSE student, though you do end up with a wide wands-and-unicorns vocabulary rather than pencil cases and social history).

I think people are so daft to pretend she’s lost any type of audience when the books are still so popular. I also see lots on social media bleating about how the book ‘belongs to the fans’ and they ‘don’t support her.’ New flash dummy, if you are buying a book or merchandise you are (one way or the other) supporting the author. Moaning about it on social media makes no difference.

DD wants the illustrated ones for Christmas - they’re a bit pricey though, considering that she already has and has read the regular ones!

I have always wondered how her money is delivered to her

Surely an owl delivers those royalty cheques? 🦉🦉🦉

DD is at secondary school and there's still plenty of love for HP there, and also quite a bit of eye rolling for the gender wooo. Probably is relevant that there's a trans child in her form, who is apparently a PITA to pretty much everyone. Daughter and friends just mind their own business and steer clear of the drama

Yeah, same for the tweens/teens I know. They know it's nonsense and would most likely avoid the attention seekers with the neo pronouns.

She is an unapologetically successful, clever, funny WOMAN and my god don't those losers bashing away at a keyboard in the dark at 2am absolutely despise her for it.

Absolutely this. I adore JKR !

I once saw a Buzzfeed listicle on something like “the greatest moments from the HP books” with a big disclaimer at the top saying they don’t support JKR and they love the trans community blah blah

It is so funny watching the way people are trying to change truth to lies , then they bend over backwards to justify the lies.
A 21 year old is not a pensioner.
Nor can I woman or man swap their biological sex.

This:

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Surely if it’s that triggering, people just should avoid all HP content?

I'm another one who came to Strike late, bought the first as I wanted to support her for being amazing, but have them bought and devoured all of them!

The Christmas pig is the most beautiful book too, I could barely read the ending to my son through my tears!

Billy Bragg has absolutely riled me no end today. Utter twat.

I this context / analogy I think what Graham Norton is saying that the black people fighting for their rights ARE the experts. He's not talking about some third party academic expert.

Want an expert on trans issues? Speak to a trans person as they're the experts in that context. THAT was his point.

I didn't really u nderstand how adults would get into HP from reading the first book. It is aimed at children and pre-teens. My niece was growing up around the time of the third one - Prisoner of Azkabhan - and we took her to the cinema to see it and thence every subsequent film. By the end of the forth film - The Goblet of Fire - I was hooked to the story and read the final 3 books. The style changed as the characters grew older, it was smart how the writing changed in line with the age of the original readership. I think the final novel is a real work of art, as the culmination of a 7 novel series. It was stunning I think.

The Casual Vacancy is something else altogether, really really well put together, adult and heartbreaking. I think she is an amazing writer. She is the one writer who encouraged this adult back into reading a 1000 page novel. I had lost the knack through too much social media. Grateful for that.

just to add the 1000 pager is The Ink Black Heart which is superb!

Indeed. Want some experts on rights for vulnerable women, speak to women and those who stand for them. That was the pushback point. Women are not speaking on trans issues, they are speaking about women and children. Who are the experts - mothers!!! Couldn't be plainer. Why can't BB and GN see that?

I think that's what I find the most hurtful about the whole situation. That mothers who are concerned about other women and children are so disparaged as being bigots and right wing. That we are full of hate and want people not to exist. When it's exactly the opposite.