Spew hate, fund hate, systemically implement hate and violence, politically platform and fund hate, and do horrific disgusting acts to individuals all the time.

Jkr is evil. Not a trash person, not a politically polarizing person, not just an outspoken person I disagree with. But an actual. Evil. Fucking. Human.

I can pirate and indulge in my inner child from time to time knowing that cast and crew created lifetime bonds and had that experience with us - the fans.

Rowling? There aren't enough buses on earth to toss her under.

They're not that whimsical and the magic is kind of stupid. As in its not good magic and the world isn't coherently built around it.

They're not even good.

If it makes you feel any better (and sorry if it does the opposite), she sort of plagiarised from earlier series including The Worst Witch and The Adventures of Willy the Wizard. Kinda all of it, including the premise (magical vs ‘normal’ kids called to a magical school, houses, many of the spells and plots, etc. So much so that the latter sued her over it (that author lost, because it wasn’t a word-for-word lift).

If you like the genre, I’d recommend reading those series instead now.

And few things matter less than the JK herself.

I agree, but she's rich and is putting her money into projects that are actively hurting people.

With a cactus, sideways

I would consider him averaged sized.

The easiest of trolley problems

Jesus Christ she literally committed a sexual offence ahainst someone while claiming she wants to prevent sexual offences. FFS

Disgusting, I plan to make sure she gets none of my money. She hasn't really since the last main series movie came out. I just wish people would get over their nostalgia and see how this woman is using the money gained from tgeir love to fuel hate. I have never eaten ChicFilA and don't plan to for instance. I do my best to not support problematic shit when I can. Buy bootleg merch if you want the stuff and pirate the movies and games.

I'm not trans but people I care about are.

I may be the minority, certainly the sales numbers indicate it as such, but it's ruined for me.

My happy memories tied to Harry Potter are intrinsically also tied to my trans friends. Everytime she opens her mouth she assults those memories (and my friends' existence). I have no interest in fueling hate against people I know and love.

I'm sorry that more people don't feel the same.

I made my kindergarten teacher call me Harry Potter for like 2 weeks when i first got glasses. They were HP branded glasses too. I had all the binders and everything. Harry Potter, Star Wars, and LOTR were all pretty equal in my mind as a little kid. (i now recognize that LOTR is superior and SW is better than HP).

JK Prowlings actions shattered me. Even though i was no longer that level of fanatic by that time. She was just getting super vocal about her trans hate and racism as i was coming out and starting my transition. What a cunt. Ruined a good thing for so many because she couldnt just not be the worst.

People hate trans people so much that if they had any they'd throw any ethics they had out the window to get rid of them.

Yeah it's actually been pretty handy to my language learning process to have a full series of books written at a child's reading level that it's easy to find secondhand or on Anna's archive etc translated into multiple other languages. They're mediocre and the author sucks but they've had a massive cultural impact worldwide and if you read them as a kid you'll be able to follow the plot pretty well even while you're still learning the language. I needed hardcopies because my job benefits from me being as analog as possible but like I said it's so easy to find translated copies of them for cheap.

As a side note, having gotten into the western esoteric spiritual traditions (tarot, astrology, etc) where she pulled a bunch of her worldbuilding from, idt people realize how deep the TERF roots are in that culture. There's a huuuge emphasis on a woman's reproductive status being the source of their power. It's much easier to separate yourself from that kind of thing with an esoteric religion compared to an institutional one like mainstream Christianity but it does still require being mindful of what outside sources you integrate into your personal philosophy. There's definitely times I've been vibing along reading about somebody's homebrew ritual practices only to have a record scratch moment when they start talking about their inner mother goddess expressing it's power through her womb like bitch the only reason I even kept the thing was to maybe donate it some day jeebus.

I have the pirated Full Cast audio books. After book 3, they slowly get worse. First 3 I can defend as simple kids solving over the top mysteries. Reminds me of the Enid Blyton and The Secret Seven books I read as a kid.

But the casual elf slavery. Dumbing down politics for kids. The torture being used for detention in book 5. Pushed me enough to buy the inkheart audio books.

There are probably other books for teens that have magic and fantasy, but I am reccomending Inkheart by Cornelia Funke right now.

Attention sometimes matters more than your money. And todays world is all about attention.

We will all do better to ignore such artists altogether.

The argument goes that while pirating doesn't inherently support the author, continuing to participate in fandom perpetuates the cultural influence that the author has in society and can encourage others by proxy to go spend money on the author's work.

That works to an extent, as long as you aren't talking to your friends about the show, who might then go off and watch it somewhere that supports her.

It's pretty bad. Remember how abolishing slavery is literally a running gag? Or his there's one character of every non-white ethnicity? Or the prose kinda sucked? Or how dumb the magic sport is? Or...

Edit: if you want someone from the same place writing genuinely whimsical important meaningful bullshit wizard stories, try Pratchett's 'discworld' novels. They're far from perfect, but the author died of old while never being outed as a raging piece of shit, so I think you're safe. There's also one where all but one of the main characters turns out to be trans or in drag.

Pirate, then donate to a trans-friendly charity what the books would have cost.

I guess if you think it's cool to perpetuate the ideas of a bigoted pile of filth (no)

The fiction itself is not inherently bad

Uh huh..........

Have you tried reading books that were written for adults yet?

Things are allowed to be kind of bad and people are allowed to like them anyway.

Things are not allowed to be bigoted, of course.

That's because they're books for children. Has everyone forgotten this?

Right? I feel bad for adult Harry Potter fans in a way, because it's almost certain that they've simply never read another book since they were literal children.

They are missing out on some actual really good shit because they've formed their personality around a mediocre series of books written for literal children.