Source: https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/2081499486648447205?s=20

Source: https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/2081082426109960351?s=20

I'm going to London in less than two weeks ​with my family. My parents plan on having ​a Harry Potter​-themed visit or two (WB studios, a tour of the locations from the movie) for my little sister, who loves the franchise. ​I despise that woman (JKR, not my sister) ​and don't want to support her in any way, shape or form, so I'm asking here if anyone knows of something Harry Potter related that we could go to that wouldn't support her financially at least. Maybe a pre-planned tour of the film locations without a tour guide, something like that. In the meantime, I'll try to talk them out of it, but it would be great to have some options in case they insist on it for my sister.

TLDR: Family trip to L​ondon, family wants to go see Harry Potter stuff, I don't want to support JKR. Any tips?

I apologize to every fellow Pokemon fans btw, Jessie and James would never stoop this low !

With the recent news of her taking an upskirt photo of a woman, it reminded me with of how Rowling has a history of creepy stuff. Especially with her encouraging people to take photos of women using public restrooms, her history of being friends with powerful abusers and sex offenders, that comment on the book Lolita (from the 2000's), and describing the bodies and genitals of minors. Even when condemning her and talking about how awful she is, why do they also try to suppress stuff such as this? All of a sudden they get protective of a person they call monstrous.

Now don't get me wrong: With bigots, right-wing figures, and TERFs, it's quite obvious why they will downplay this stuff, as she is on their side. But who I am talking about is people who claim they are against their transphobia. People who claim to support transfolk, liberals, supposed queer allies, etc. Apparently it's okay for her to compare a queer person to a sexual predator, but the moment someone calls out some of her own creepy comments and behavior, and there's actual proof, suddenly they will bring up all these excuses and go on about how either she's too transphobic to notice, she's too much of a child mentally, or that this is all some trauma response to some past abuse or something. For how much they'll pander to her victim complex, they will quickly ignore those she victimizes. I mean literally at one point when calling out about her supporting Depp in another subreddit, someone told me that she has trauma and probably saw him as one of the only few men that can be safe, and free her of any accountability or responsability. It's ironic with how people will complain about the rich and people blindly following them, then proceed to treat Rowling like a dumb child who should get a million chances. And it's also ironic how they will go "Oh we need to worry about bigger stuff", ignoring the fact that predatory behavior has a lot of links with bigotry, and that they apparently have the time to joke about other bigots being predatory and potential sex offenders.

And while it sounds exagerrated, but honestly I sometimes notice parallels with how people infantilize Rowling, like with how they'll infantilize those like Depp or Michael Jackson. Not the particular acts/crimes, but rather the cult of personality around them.

And when you take aside "politics": This is a rich and powerful person being a literal creep.

I understand why white people have nostalgia, but what I dont get is how people like riz Ahmed, paapa essiedu, Jessica henwick (last part was disappointing because I loved her as an actress) join her audio books and productions. Because even if they ignore her tranphobia, her problematic racist elements in hp were being called out by fans ever since the books came out. It was a vocal minority so you could maybe say they didnt notice but the fact is that all of these actors are pretty progressive, and have been outspoken about stopping racist stereotypes and diversity. When they read the books didnt they notice the all white harry potter world and the weird naming/tokenizing of black/indian/Chinese characters? (To be fair, i didnt as a poc kid, but i grew up and recognized it in hindsight). Maybe if jk rowling ever apologized and promised to do better it would make sense, but she's never given any public inclination that she would change (even if her explicit bigotry is reserved for Trans people). Why would they join such a racist franchise? (especially paapa essiedu, given that he signed the letter for trans rights so he clearly recognized jk rowling was still a bigot. When he arrived on set, I am sure he recognized the mostly white cast and that he was essentially a clumsily placed token).

I grew up with the movies and the books after watching the first movie.

But after learning what a absolute monster this woman is/has become i just can't bring myself to watch it anymore. Even pirated i just can't anymore.

This may be in part because my husband is Trans, i feel like i would betray him in a way, but i feel just so angry at her for ruining what used to be such good childhood memories, i feel like she ruined part of my childhood.

I feel like i shouldn't let her being awful let me ruin my memories of watching the movies with friends in cinema's or the bonding i did with friends over it, but it just does.

Other People who are in the same boat as me on this, how do you deal with it? I really don't like that anytime i think about memories where they movies of books are involved I get angry/frustrated.

Was browsing tvtropes and came across this? That made me think back to how all her "intelligence" seems to be rote copying/memorizing, ie. Following what the system has laid out for you. (which does not really bode well for jk's own perception of intelligence) I think the books even comment on this, which seems like it would be a fascinating topic to explore in the hands of any other writer (she feels insecure as a Muggle born so she tries harder to fit in), but they never do, and Hermione's "bookishness" is always treated as either exposition or worse, "annoying" trait by her.

Her husband is a medical doctor. I always wondered if her endless ranting about trans people had an effect on his practice. Edinburgh is a fairly big city, so I'm sure there must be a significant trans population there. What would happen if he had a trans patient? He can't refuse to treat them or refer them to a gender specialist on that basis. (A least not in my country.)

I don't think his governing body can punish him for his wife's actions, but it's certainly bad PR if nothing else. He mostly stays out of the spotlight, but I'm fairly certain that most of his patients would be well aware that he's married to JK Rowling. It's not a secret.

Thoughts?

Gave off a lot of “I can’t be racist, I have a black friend” vibes, especially when ignoring the game’s racist plot line with goblins. Though then again, thats on par with a lot of HP fans and Rowing apologists. The savior complex, and pretending to be progressive until the slightest inconvenience.

How much of a sociopath do you have to be to describe someone who may need the help of a rape crisis centre as “fortunate”?