The erasure of Worst Witch is a crime.

As a child I read Groosham Grange from Anthony Horowitz, and when I first heard a description of Harry Potter, I thought that they were describing that book from Horowitz. I can't believe no one else noticed. But I also think that most people active in children's literature will have an attitude of "anything that gets a child reading, is a good thing", so they're not that upset about poor quality being popular and they'd rather keep the positive vibe going.

Even the Irish kid gets worse in the books. Apart from making things explode, his other notable character trait is repeatedly trying to turn various drinks into whiskey.

Oh goodness, I never thought of that.

Jesus fucking Christ what? there was a character named shacklebolt???

Nah... come on.... please, let that not have been a conscious thing

Is it true that the centaur from movie 1 had more lines than all the black characters in all 7 books?

And then modern fans get mad at black Snape in the TV show (if that gets to finish. My bets is it will patter out like the fantastic beasts movies)

Misread this as (Rusty) Shackleford.

This made me laugh way harder than it should've, bwahaha

Allow me to hit you with my cane. The Manchester blast was fucking loud.

The films added the stereotypes. They made the goblins hooked nosed and added a Star of David decoration to the greengots bank floor.

It's not in the books but Rowling still had huge control over the film so retains responsibility.

Pretty sure there was a whole lot about the unfair treatment of house elves

no, the house elves loved being slaves and hermione was being hysterical for fighting for their rights.

Yes, but Hermione was one of the good ones and the system found her and elevated her.

Miss Granger is at best overzealous, and her goals are, at worst, unattainable. Hermione may have meant well, but at the same time did end up dragging a peaceful group into a political battlefield just because she felt that’s what they should want. Was she helping, or interfering in a culture she didn’t understand?

She basically stole materials from all kinds of various books, she doesnt even know the themes she's writing about.

Ok I know I shouldnt have, but that did make me chuckle.

I don't know if I'm laughing art JKR's racism or at that funny racist sketch.

If she wrote a South East Asian she probably would name it Coolieboy Sambal. Who is an errand boy of one of teachers who tries to tame the boy and make him less “savage”