The explanation is that the movies famously cut out a LOT from the books, and fans were kinda sad about it, and the show aims to restore a whole bunch of that. In a vacuum, this would be a nice thing actually, like a Lord of the Rings show that restores the full content of all of Tolkien's books properly, the people want the Bombadil cut (oh look, what's Stephen Colbert doing over there?). Fans wanted it, and a lot of people will be very happy about it as long as it doesn't bomb. It's just a shame that Rowling will also be very happy about it, couldn't even wait for her to die so that they don't have to pay her.

Yeah I was tired of it before I became aware of her bigotry and it was an open secret in the trans community for a few years before she became open about it

100% Agree. More rehashing of old content instead of something similar and original? Who is asking for this?

I feel like it's made to keep it relevant for newer kids. Kinda like Disney and doing live action remakes but worse.

I think it looks... fine. (It's missing color- the magic of cinema.) While I don't want it to succeed in my heart, I know waaaaay too many millennial parents that will be force feeding this to children.

I love hitpoints. A nice way to handle health in games.

I've never understood the love for their food. It's not that good. I wouldn't eat there even if they weren't owned shitty people.

I'd argue that's still indirectly helping to a smaller extent by keeping the fandom alive. Although, one could pirate the game and donate the money that would go towards buying it to a trans related charity or something (Trevor Project?)

Better to not engage with her output at all though. Plenty of other good shows and books in the world to enjoy, without providing further engagement and interest for her hate.

But no seeding!

The lead designer was a neo Nazi youtuber. The trans character was probably studio mandated diversity for PR reasons, or a rebel faction of actual progressives on the dev team.

This is not that question though.

The question of separation of art and artist is about if you should judge the art based on the artist. That is not required or even the criticism.

In fact, most people don't even say that HP is bad because of jk rolling. They say, it is bad to pay for HP products because jk rolling gets money from it.

I am fairly certain that people would be fine with someone pirating HP movies and watching them. Publicly screening is a different story.

https://vger.to/sopuli.xyz/comment/22643123 evidence for my claim.

Yes, but you can't separate your money you spend on their products from them. That's why pirating is the morally correct thing to do in that situation.

Yeah but only after they're dead when they're not getting royalties anymore.

I can, but why would I? There's already more art than I can consume in a lifetime, made by people who weren't evil

"Can one separate art from artist?"

We need to stop having that conversation because That stopped being the question!

That WAS the question in the beginning when we as a society were really trying out a new form of advocacy where millions of people could have a parasocial relationship with an author in real time and learned that their "friend" was being a jerk but that is far from the question now.

JKR used her fantastic wealth to fund the lawyers that made the landmark decision to change the legal definitions of woman and render UK Gender recognition certificates moot. This decision has legitimately caused a surge in workplaces siding with transphobic employees, attacks on trans and cis people in bath and changing rooms, disqualified trans women (a population who is known to have high rates of domestic abuse, rape and human trafficking), from shelters and medical/mental services they desperately need.

And she lit a cigar and patted herself on the back for a good use of 700,000 pounds stirling.

There are other groups and causes she funds and supports through attention capture through her activism and bank account. This isn't separating art from artist - it is cutting off revenue streams to a hateful popular activist campaigning to make vulnerable people die because she finds them intellectually inconvenient.

Dune gang rise up!

At that point you're someone standing next to the dude in the "I ❤️ HP" shirt. Supporting a fandom that is owned by bigots is still not great. At the end of the day you're perpetuating it's existence.

It's not nearly as bad, but it's not good.

If you absolutely must read those collections of poor writing and thinly veiled racism, you can get them from a used bookstore as well. The point is to not give fuckface money

It's kind of muddy and depends on your personal beliefs on how much you think interacting with a terrible person through uncritical devouring of their works is likely to taint your own worldview. Various factors include how many people were involved, did they have the views at the time, are you capable of reading the text in a manner where you seperate yourself a bit from it, etc.

I don't think it's worth the risk personally, but I tend to view art as a communication from one person to another, rather than a commodity or a consumable. I don't particularly go out of my way to communicate with terfs who are immune to critical thinking. Also if we get down to brass tacks, it's not that good of a series.

The only risk you have is that someone will see you playing a Harry potter game, or reading a book, and they will then go and buy it. If you pirate it just keep it relatively private if you really want to make sure jk Rowling doesnt benefit in any way.

I just scrubbed through the trailer and it truly looks AI generated. Like they just remade the movie with different actors instead of re-imagining it to make something unique.

this is all warner bros. they have an ip that isnt making money. thats all this series is.

They didn't whitewash Snape. They made him black. Not Sirius Black, though.

I hope it's the former. That author is reinvesting that money in lawyers, political campaigning and funneling investment into groups that actively are pursuing Supreme Court cases to errode trans rights. Kinda more important than a bookshop owner being a total bro is that she's not getting more money to do that.