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Year Two of Hogwarts

Fred and George: hey guys, wherr you going?

Harry and Ron: Gonna hang out with the other 2nd year boys. You know, Seamus, Dean and Neville.

Fred: Peters not coming?

Ron: who

George: you know, the other kid in your dorm. Peter Pettigrew

Harry: there's no one named Peter Pettigrew in our dorm...

Fred and George: well, shit.

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Harry Potter and Accepting His Biological Reality by Joining Slytherin House and Being Evil

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I won't tell anyone they have to shut off any positve feelings they have regarding the Harry Potter series. I know for me personally they brought me comfort all my life and despite their many many many issues and my deep and burning hatred for JKR, I still find comfort in them. I consider them as belonging to any fan who wants them, and not to her.

HOWEVER -----

There is absolutely no way to give financial support to this franchise without giving money directly to JK Rowling. When you pay money for the new movies, games, books, whatever, you are putting money directly into her pocket. And when she uses her money and influence and platform to harm the trans community, there is no way to seperate yourself from that. There just isn't.

Whatever books and merch you already own, I see no harm in still enjoying them quietly. But to continue to spend money and offer support to this franchise is causing direct harm to trans people, and there is no way around that. torrent the movies, books, games if you can. But don't give your money, don't buy official merch, unless you're willing to accept the harm your actions are doing to the trans community.

When I say "enjoy it quietly" I also mean that loudly praising HP or the wizarding world can also do harm. People take note of what trailers people are watching, of what's trending on twitter (fortunately no one really gives a shit about tumblr anymore but still, be careful).

It also sends a message to your trans followers, if you're singing the praises of these books, advertising your house, etc etc. So just be careful and consider how things you might consider innocuous are being recieved by those around you. Especially those that need our support more than ever.

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I said it in the tags of a post but honestly, I feel like I need to make my own post because while we're doing the whole "stop supporting jkr!" thing I need everyone to remember that not only is she blatantly transphobic (and specifically transmisogynistic), but that she and her books are incredibly racist and antisemitic.

Appropriating Indigenous American cultures for her American wizard school. Making all of the bankers in her books hook-nosed goblins. Naming the ONLY East Asian character in the books "Cho Chang" and putting her in the "smart people house". The way that she treats the Patil Twins, the only two other Asians, and the only South Asians in the series. The way that she treats ALL her characters of color. JKR's racism has always been there. People just seem to gloss over it for some reason and to be honest, I'm getting really frustrated and tired of constantly adding that racism is a problem in the notes of these posts. And this is literally just based on Harry Potter! The rest of her stuff surely has even more problems!

I don't want to downplay her transphobia. That's a huge issue that, I, especially as a trans person, cannot emphasize enough! But as a person of color, I feel like I need to remind y'all that it's just the tip of the iceberg.

I think OP of this post I rbed about JKR's racism specifically against Indigenous Americans put it perfectly. This has made it painfully obvious that people are white before they are queer.

It's not that hard just to acknowledge her racism alongside her transphobia. If you're making a post about her remember that she's shitty in so many other ways, and she's always been shitty.

I know this is long but I'm rambling, so...

tl;dr JKR is racist as well as transphobic. Just acknowledge that in your pleas for people to stop supporting her. Please. It's literally so easy. anyways jkr's a piece of shit and I hope she burns in hell!!

- sincerely, a trans poc who's tired of this shit

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With the drop of the new Fantastic Beasts trailer, let's take a moment to remember that JKR:

1. is unequivocally a TERF + openly supports and allies herself with other TERFs

2. uses her massive wealth and platform to fight against trans rights, such that an anti-trans republican senator has cited her controversial essay to block voting on the Equality Act , and

3. has retained so much control over the HP franchise that giving her money (through movie tickets, book sales, official merch, etc) actively enables and contributes to the platform she uses to target vulnerable people

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you horny idiots better be pirating the new fantastic beasts movie, hannibal being in a movie is not a good excuse for giving jk rowling's terf ass more money

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Putting aside how much I hate JK Rowling for a moment (with the burning passion only reserved for someone who has horribly betrayed you) the FB series is a baffling mess to me. There are so many questions. It's been clear since at least the end of the first film that this series is about Dumbledore and Grindelwald, right? So WHY pick Newt as the protagonist? Why not Dumbledore? I mean he's probably the most enigmatic characters in the original series, we know very little about him REALLY and everything we do know is filtered through one of his students, who admired him intensely. So even the critism is softened. This would be a chance to explore Dumbledore without the filter, to really learn how one of the "greatest wizards of all time" could have been so buddy buddy with one of the evilest. It's like if we were dropped into the Harry Potter story when he was like 70 and he just went "yeah Voldemort and I used to be BFF when we were preteens, whatever." Like what??? How???

Newt is an interesting character and I liked the first one, a lot. But I just don't think he's the best vantage point for the Dumbledore vs Grindelwald story, especially since now they're going to have to keep shoehorning more magical animals into every movie to keep him relevant. And it's just confusing to me, if they were intending to tell the story of Dumble and Grindy, why start with "fantastic beasts and where to find them."

I know the answer is "because the Hell Bitch loves Newt" but let's be real, she could have told a standalone Newt Story and then done a Grindledore trilogy and it would have made far more sense and been better plotted. Maybe they should stop letting her make these kind of decisions, especially these days because clearly her judgement is what the youths call "completely fucky."

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Unless the new Harry Potter special with Emma, Daniel and Rupert is just an hour or more of them denigrating JK Rowling and using this platform to draw attention to the harm she has done and is doing, I do not want any part of it.

I'm sorry, I have no interest in watching the cast reunite just to praise the wizarding world of Harry Potter that she created. it's a world wide phenomenon! It's brought so much positivity to the world! It's inspirational!

No, no it's not. Not when every cent contributed to it goes directly into the pockets of a transphobic bigot who is using her MASSIVE platform to hurt the trans community. She has stamped out every bit of magic from that world and to sit around reminiscing about the movies and the wonderful wizarding world and pretend like she isn't doing this shit it just completely fucked up.

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I never post here anymore but it's really really important to say this at least once more

Fuck JK Rowling. Violent transphobic anti women trashbag. Fuck her and everyone who supports her or thinks like her.

That is all.

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They forced Johnny Depp of the Fantastic Beasts franchise, which is interesting because why are they still continuing that franchise at all? Cut your losses people, it's a dud.

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Happy October!

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Humanitarian Awards: hey Jo, here's an award! You've created a wonderful foundation and helped so many people!

JK Rowling: I'm so honoured to get this award and I will continue devoting my life to helping cis youth.

Awards: sorry what was that?

Rowling: yes we must save the children who think they are trans from harming themselves by doing trans things and thinking trans thoughts and also being little perverts

Awards: uh no? That's not right? We support the trans community and what you're saying is actually really Transphobic and harmful?

Rowling: adfghffhjj@$#& take your damn award back then we clearly disagree. Sorry i really need to stick to my guns here: fuck trans people

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“Ok, Harry, pay attention. I’ve brought you to the Hogwarts Library. Why? Because it’s the biggest library in the magical world. Over 20 million books. And they’re all saying the exact same thing: Listen to Hermione.”

— Hermione Granger [to Harry Potter, at some point, definitely]

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You’re literally calling jk Rowling a crap fest of a human being as if people like you aren’t literal fucking dumbass scum really taking shit wayy out of proportion for NO reason.

I don’t know if you’re mad because I called out her antisemitism or because she’s a raging, hateful TERF but either way 

Crap fest was actually quite nice, she’s more like an infected hemorrhoid of a human being, if hemorrhoids were contagious and could infect others just through proximity. She’s dangerous and she’s using her platform to advocate for hate that will harm people, adults AND children. So if you want to be like “boohoo I love my Jew-hating-racist-transphobic-rich-asshole-author lady stop being mean!!” 

Please understand that I sincerely, from the bottom of my heart, do not fucking care. 

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I think if JK wasn’t an absolute crapfest of a human being, I might be inclined to feel less anger towards the goblins. It was most likely done in ignorance (although pretty severe ignorance) and if she was a generally good person, who was trying to learn and grow, I might be more inclined to be like “yeah ok, mistakes happen and this is shitty but you’re trying.”

Obviously we know that is not the case. 

But the goblin stuff is absolutely, 100% a connection. Antisemetism is old as fuck, as I’m sure you’re more than aware of. There is SO MUCH antisemetism in things that are spread around TODAY as like “memes” and shit. 

the illumanati (secret rich people controlling society? jews!) snake people living among us or hiding in the sewers (jews!) this person is secretly a cyborg/alien trying to learn our human ways (jews!)

Not to mention, there’s a lot of shit we associate with witches in general that’s got antisemetic origins. Pointy hat, big nose, warts... once again, Jews. We still see this shit, notably in cartoon villians. Mother Gothel and Olivia Octavius from Spiderverse come to mind. Big bushy hair, pointy nose, you get the gist. 

Do 90% of the people sharing these memes, or dressing up as witches or whatever even realize that? Absolutely not. But that doesn’t remove the antisemetism from the orgins. 

So when JK Rowling sat down and wrote her hooked nose greedy race that controls all the money, she did so with a complete disregard for how that is an OBVIOUS antisemetic trope. She didn’t care. And she’s not a kid on the internet being like “heh heh, sneeple” either. She’s an adult publishing a book series. You think you’d put some thought into that?? 

OK I don’t mean to be giving you a “modern day antisemetism in pop culture’ lecture, and this isnt me assuming you don’t know this already. I’m just illustrating my point. These connections are NOT a coincidence. The big noses, the greed and money obsession, it all goes back to things society has been taught to associate with villainy and evil. Mother Gothel and Doc Ock are supposed to look like cunning witches, the goblins are supposed to be wealth obsessed grifters. But ALL those things go back to antisemetism, the way they’ve been ingrained into society and pop culture. Even if the direct association is removed in the minds of general audiences, the history is a hatred and fear of Jews. 

Anyways, sorry this is such an essay and I’m also sorry if my original post was super aggressive sounding. I get frustrated about this stuff but that’s not an excuse for being rude. 

Can you all actually hold j.k. rowling responsible for her antisemitism. I barley see it mentioned in posts about her whenever her nonsense is brought up every few months. Stop leaving it out and making Jewish hurt an afterthought. When you leave antisemitism out when listing the things she’s done, it’s so obvious it’s because you think it’s “not that bad” or “not the worst thing she’s done”.

Antisemitism isn’t an afterthought and shouldn’t be left out. Call it by it’s name and hold her accountable for making Jewish caricatures in her shitty books. Especially if ur a white gentile.

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"just" about the goblins? Like including an antisemetic caricature isn't bad enough on it's own? Did JK sit down like "hey fuck all Jewish people, those greedy shit bags, I'm going to really represent them so bad in my book hahaha" ? Probably not. But being ignorant about the obvious implications of her money hoarding race is still antisemetic. You don't get a pass on bigotry just because you're ignorant on it.

This is exactly what OP is saying. The antisemetism gets a pass. It's not a big deal, it's hand waved away.

There's also the implications of a story whose villians are clearly Hitler and the Nazis with zero Jewish characters, except of course for the goblins, oh and the evil hooked nose teacher with greasy hair who used to be a Nazi but gave that up with the girl he loved was targeted. Blood purity, trying to find out who secretly has impure blood... Yup JK sure loved writing about stuff that happened to Jews. She doesn't love Jews tho. Christmas is much more fun, the whole wizarding world stiff definitely celebrates that as if they have any damn idea who Christ is...

Look I'm not trying to attack you here but like... The goblins are bad. Even without that other stuff, that's fucked up.

Can you all actually hold j.k. rowling responsible for her antisemitism. I barley see it mentioned in posts about her whenever her nonsense is brought up every few months. Stop leaving it out and making Jewish hurt an afterthought. When you leave antisemitism out when listing the things she’s done, it’s so obvious it’s because you think it’s “not that bad” or “not the worst thing she’s done”.

Antisemitism isn’t an afterthought and shouldn’t be left out. Call it by it’s name and hold her accountable for making Jewish caricatures in her shitty books. Especially if ur a white gentile.

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