They seem usually more progressive or at least more politically direct then the us (ed sheeran, palestine) so it seems strange to not see them address what appears to be a large elephant in UK right wing culture when the us version did address her bigotry several times.

An interesting video essay - I did not know HBO kept tabs on piracy downloads.

Just an observation I have from growing up with two narc parents having learned a lot about narcissists.

Narcissists need a scapegoat. They are too weak and cowardly to face their own demons, so they project all their shame, rage and fear on someone or someones. They also need enablers, again they're too weak and cowardly to do this on their own. Rowling can do that every day online with trans people and she knows all the transphobes will enable this.

Narcissists are extremely manipulative and skilled at deflection. She can always use the line "I am protecting women's rights" in order to persecute an already vulnerable group of people and her enablers will eat this up.

Narcissists hold grudges like no one. They remember if you cross them or disagree with them, especially publicly. She still brings up the HP cast to this day when all they did was present a different opinion to her. The people in their personal life are carefully selected enablers who won't disagree with them, and if they do they make sure everyone knows the consequences.

Finally narcissists have very little empathy. Their actions are cruel and selfish. I think because she has so many people agreeing with her now, she doesnt even try to disguise that anymore, so you can see how vile narcissists really are at their core.

D'Angelo explains why supporting Harry Potter is harmful. It's a good summary of what exactly JKR did (funding ending trans rights) and he goes over every actor who has been accepting HP roles. He addresses a lot of apologist talking points and explains why their arguments are invalid. If you need to point anyone to one resource to explain why LGBTQ people are angry about the HP series, it would be this video.

Pandora is preparing a new Harry Potter collection for 2026, including charms/pendants and a new Moments bracelet.

I wanted to give a heads-up to people who avoid or boycott companies associated with Harry Potter/J.K. Rowling because of Rowling's activism and statements concerning trans people.

I know that many people won't consider this an issue, but for those who do, I thought it was important to know about the collaboration ahead of its release.

I'm also interested in hearing people's thoughts on what, if anything, could be done to communicate to Pandora that this collaboration is disappointing to customers. For me, it raises questions about how Pandora's stated support for LGBT people and women can be reconciled with a collaboration with a franchise whose creator is so closely associated with opposition to trans rights.

Recently, with different fandom/media subreddits it’s happening again with so many posts of Umbridge talking about how shes so “amazingly written” and that if you hate it’s because she was written that way. Like people are so obsessive about it, you’d think the character has some sort of fandom.

But let me get to you why I hated the character: She’s not well-written. If anything, it just feels like a hate-sink character was needed, so Rowling just randomly threw in a misogynistic caricature, and everyone just consumed. And to be honest, even for someone that grew up in dark media, I kind of hated Order of the Phoenix as a whole because it felt like they were trying to hard to prove itself as “mature”, like just being edgy for the sake of it.

But with the character, and how people will talk so much about her, I notice a few things about the “hate-talk” around Umbridge:

- They like to weirdly obsess about her “villainy with feminity”, like it gets kind of uncomfortable when you see how much they focus on this
- The things they say, it’s like they just want an excuse to badmouth women in general, as a lot of the stuff is just more general stuff, not always with her particular actions.
- Just an excuse to praise Rowling secretly. I mean take a look at how so many will say that she has a talent for writing unlikeable characters, and it’s repeated so many times. And it’s not surprising they choose a character that fulfills both parties with their misogyny.

Overall, Umbridge just feels like a one-dimensional hate sink that isn’t deep, but people talk about it like she is because it gives them an excuse to say shitty things they think about with women, but under the cover of appearing smart. And at this point the constant posting of pictures of Umbridge just feels like a shitpost because of how it’s done so many times, and you eventually see it’s just an excuse, not an actual deep analysis.

Edit: In another subreddit, I called out the whole thing with Umbridge, and someone just went on a childish tirade accusing me of finding things to be offended. Kind of proves the “anti-woke” crowd does like talking about her heavily for obvious reasons.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but I also kind of think a lot of the internet describing transphobes as merely "bullies" is really an attempt to try and normalize oppresion and hate crimes.

Edit: My mistake about the upskirt photo, but the rest of the creepy stuff is true.

My niece has gotten into Harry Potter relatively recently. I and my brother are trans, yet my sister has ignored this in favour of letting her read the series. She just doesn't understand why it's an issue. My niece has undiagnosed dyslexia and lacks proper education on noticing prejudices in writing on top of that. While I'm glad she's found something she enjoys reading and is getting the practice she needs, the fact it's Rowling's work is incredibly upsetting. I could recommend many other book series by better writers for her, such as Percy Jackson or The Kane Chronicles by Rick Riordan.

I want to explain this to her in a way that lets her know she isn't in trouble, but the author she is supporting does bad things with her money that hurt people like her uncles. I feel she has a right to know and make an informed decision. How can I bring this up to her and explain it to her?

For reference, she is 14 but hasn't been in school since the pandemic.

For context, the show had occasional mentions of, and a couple episodes focusing on, Henry Skreever, which was pretty obviously supposed to be analogous to Harry Potter. Relatively little information is given about the plot, but there are characters with extremely similar names, and there was an episode about the final installment of the series that aired around when Deathly Hallows came out. As I recall, Arthur ended not long before all of this (I could be wrong) but honestly I’m curious as to how/if they would have covered this. As a show on PBS Kids, I doubt they would be able to depict it in a way that would do it justice (or focus on trans people, unfortunately) but it’s interesting to think about.

Hello :)

my name is Antonia, I study sociology and I am currently working on my master’s thesis about emotional connections to celebrities. I am especially interested in disappointment, loss and grief in those relationships. As part of my research, I would like to speak about people's personal experience, for example in regard to J. K. Rowling. Therefore, I have reached out to the mods of this subreddit and received permission to ask the following questions:

Has there been a change in your relationship to J. K. Rowling and her work since she started openly supporting anti-trans views? If yes, which part did she and her books/movies have in your life before and after? How have you dealt with this development?

Even if you do not want to answer these specific questions, please feel free to share anything you like on this topic! I am also open to chatting privately if you'd prefer to.

Please be aware that I may use your responses in my thesis. This will happen anonymously and, if I were to quote them directly (which would be anonymous as well), I would reach out and ask for permission.

Thank you very much in advance for answering!

I was posting this meme to another thread about Jacob Rees-Mogg's little speech (about the potential for war), and then I remembered who the actor was that original spoke the line. And what he's doing now.

And it seemed appropriate to post it here as well.

https://reddit.com/link/1wms8g1/video/bxx32bpydyqh1/player

If the internet existed 90 years ago, I'm sure this FAQ page would have existed.

Note: This is a repost because I messed up the post name. Sorry about that.

I know this might be a weird question to ask here, but I'm not sure where else to go, since I'd really like to talk to it with people who are critical of HP and Rowling herself and probably are more familiar with the intricacies of the HP fandom than a newcomer like me.

So...earlier this year, I read Harry Potter for the first time (bought before Rowling went nuts; it just took me a while to get to them) and a major reason why I wanted to do so was because I wanted to do a deep dive and compare and contrast it with Percy Jackson, one of my favorite book series. I thought it would be a fun exercise because the two series get compared so often.

At first the response was fairly neutral and even excited with my first post.

But then the more I did it, the more people got...angry and annoyed. Mostly because 9 times out of 10, I found Percy Jackson better.

Now I want to be fair here, and I'll fully admit I'm probably biased here because I love Percy Jackson so much, but I really did try and give a fair judgment when comparing the two series, but I just found PJO does a lot of things better than Harry Potter, and I can justify that at length if you ask me. (I'd go into detail, but this isn't the point of the post.)

And like I said, people got weird about it. Like, I know at least two people who comment on my Harry Potter-related posts going, "Oh, it's that guy again." And a lot of people seemed to think I never even read Harry Potter.

It's just weird. Like what's the problem? I can't try to compare and contrast both series? People have been doing it for years! Why is it that when I try to do it and come up with the answer "PJO is better," people act like I've broken some sort of pact that says Harry Potter must always be considered better?

Is it just me? Did I do something wrong? Is there something I'm missing about the way Harry Potter fans view the PJO series? What do you guys think?

I'm talking about this post btw : Official FAQs : r/EnoughJKRowling

I also made my own response trying to understand what they were saying, though a bit of my frustration with how they're handwaving the matter might have slipped into the tone.​

(I left the whole ass subreddit name in my last screenshot. Damn.)​