#I hate mentioning Harry Potter I hate it

[ashleybenlove]

Wow, fumbled that one, Tom.

About as well as Hiccup did with his explanation in Mi Amore Wing.

I do have another work of fiction in mind and its the bigoted author wizard book series that pains me to mention, Harry Potter. It's Ron being like "say, Hermione, you're a girl!"

No one fumbled worse than Ron there.

(If you feel the need to be negative about TNR to me/on my posts, don't. Leave me alone.)

[literatureaesthetic]

craving the autumnal, harry potter, cozy, gloomy, dark academia vibes soo much right now

[fiendishfyre]

Sirius Black can exist without Lupin, you can talk about him, make art and posts and not need to tag that certain ship.

Sirius Black is his own character and person and not an extension to Lupin.

[keencroissantgardenflap]

DUMBLEDORE RANTS

I've thought that witnessing Marauders fans blame all the deaths on Dumbledore is annoying enough, until I saw DRACO fans blame Dumbledore for all the wrong choices and stupid decisions that DRACO made HIMSELF????!!!

That person said it was Albus's fault for ignoring Draco's issues, for turning a blind eye on whatever happened to Draco in HBP and only lend a helping hand at the end of HBP.

And I was like???? 😦😦😦🤡🤡🤡??? Seriously???? Can you use your brain? At that time of the story, Dumbledore was a leader of an army and he had a mf WAR to deal with, he had plans to complete and had many other people (children, women, men) to protect. He needed to find out what was happening between Harry and Voldemort and turned that information into something useful that could make his side win the war.

He was old as fuck and still had to worry about several things, he sacrificed himself to make a way for the other, for a ray of hope. He was weak, sick and injured after destroying a Horcrux and coming through all the things in that full-of-inferiors cave. Yet he still made an unsual effort to control the situation and did his best to save as many people as he could. And you still think that he had any free time to worry about some brats putting himself in a fucked up position?

I don't say that everything happened to Draco was all Draco's fault. I know he's just a spoiled child who became cocky, rude, selfish and rac*st because of the environment he grew up in and a secret desire to satisfy his parents's expectations. I know he isn't evil at all and didn't deserve all the bad things happened to him. BUT Draco wasn't the only one who was in danger. Every other students, other children were also facing the same war. Did you see what happened to Dean, Seamus, Nevellie and their families? Did you see what happened to other creatures like the elves and goblins? Did you see what happened to Order and Ministry members when Voldemort chased after them and tortured then killed them brutally? Dumbledore was losing HIS PEOPLE one by one, the war became very dangerous for his side and he couldn't hesitate anymore, he must do something, anything to make it better.

And despite all of those terrible things, Dumbledore still cared for you all precious Draco 😀. He had a plan for saving that boys soul, soothe him with warming advices while Draco's wand was still pointing at his neck. All the things he told Draco at the moment before his death are to make Draco not feel guilty about his actions. What else do you want Dumbledore do to help Draco? How else could Dumbledore help him if Draco rejected even his favourite teacher, the one he used to respect - Snape? Things happened to Draco wasn't only because of his fault, but it also was NOT DUMBLEDORE'S.

You think they would win the war without Dumbledore? You think your favourite character died because of him? Shut up you idiot 😊😊

I'm not even a Dumbledore defender, I know that old man also made mistakes in his life but I swear those ppls and their Dumbledore slander start being annoying as fuck. NOT EVERYTHING is his fault ok???? Urrggggg I'm going to get mad because of those ppls, they start losing their sanity for real 💀💀💀, they should be banned from social media for the peace of the world 🫂🫂🫂🤗🤗🤗

[theflikchic]

I'm gonna say it right now: we need Harry Potter fans who are willing to stand up and tell JKR she needs a kick in the ass. And this means, we need Harry Potter fans.

JKR said that those who like/read HP are supporting her views and unfortunately, the Internet has decided...to agree with her. Which basically means, she wins. She continues to divide what she believes to be "the underdogs" (TERFs) and the "Death Eaters" (decent people). It's a way for her to feel better about herself, about the little black and white world she's created that worships her and her hate speech. And by saying "Yes, she's right, all who like HP are basically Nazis and will be looked upon by history as such", you are agreeing with and supporting her little "us vs them" worldview- something the HP books claim (and fail imo, often, save for one character whom she herself dislikes. Hmmmm) to be against.

And that's why I think HP fans who criticize her and their own series while still loving it are important. They show that her little world is bogus and bullshit. That she's nothing more than a gatekeeper. And how do we feel about gatekeepers?

To use her own word against her, "We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided". She thinks her imaginary "HP fans vs fake women supporters" world fits that bill so don't let her be right. Don't agree with her. I'm STILL meeting trans HP fans to this day. Fuck up her stupid ass black and white worldview. Reclaim that shit from her, criticize her from the inside. The world is not separated between her "good people" and "Death Eaters".

[aj-lenoire]

i do not enjoy harry potter anymore and even when i did, snape was not a character i ever liked, but for some reason my ‘for you’ page is just full of dedicated snape stan accounts and i hate it

[the-sun-is-also-a-star]

seeing a tiktok about how the person who made the video blocks every marauders cosplayer because they get second hand embarrassment from the cosplays : oh! myabe its just because the marauders tiktok community is really shit?

me opening the comments :

me : oh

[vulpinesaint]

i need everybody ever to watch this video actually. the issue is not difficult but if you’re somehow still feeling uncertain in any way about hogwarts legacy watch the video. they say it well and they say it with confidence and i love them actually

[stars-and-soda]

Oh btw plaidos has a history of being racist, when poc were upset that a lot of people only started to talk negatively about Harry Potter/JK Rowling when she began targeting trans women and not the racism in her series, she accused them of being trans misogynistic and said that people had these discussions for years (when that was part of the point. That poc have been saying that for years but it didn't make JKR a controversial figure or anything)

[sparkedblaze]

sparky’s unpopular opinion that has been on the mind for many a night (explanation under the break so i don’t have a long post taking up your feed):

all the young dudes has done immense damage to the marauders fandom

don’t get me wrong. the fic is good. you can tell that the person who wrote it put their heart and soul into a fic about something that they loved. you can see every little fun detail they put into it.

the story isn’t exactly my thing. but when you’re creating with that much emotion and passion and love? it’s hard to not fall in love with it.

i get that

but when i get hate dms on instagram telling me that my portrayal of pandora lovegood is wrong because i made her maiden name something that isn’t rosier, or how i write peter (as a person with both good and bad and not just a written off follower of james and sirius, which is apparently insane to people), it kind of puts the fic in a dark light.

i’ve read a decent chunk of it, but i couldn’t make it through because of how the author writes some of the characters. most notably peter, as he’s written out of most scenes via detention or girlfriends, even though the thing that made his betrayal so heartbreaking was the fact that he had been close to james and lily.

what made the betrayal so harsh and unbelievable was him being good friends with them. the world believed that sirius black, james’ best friend, betrayed him. because they’d both been friends with him.

and to be told that my interpretations of any said characters were wrong because of a fanfiction?? it’s just wild, and makes me incredibly upset.

harry potter is a massive fandom, and the marauders fandom is a sizeable subset of that fandom! so to say that one person’s interpretations are just Right because you like their fic is wild.

[omniwhore]

This might be a hot take but I get so tired of the internets mentality of IT'S EITHER OR.

Either you buy the game nd u therefore don't give a shit about trans pple or you never touch the HP fandom w a ten foot pole again and you're ✨clensed✨

I understand both sides of this conflict so deeply.

As a nonbinary person born in a country where you still have to get sterilised in order to change your legal gender, I can come close to the outrage the trans community is feeling at people so easily compromising their principles and support for them over something like this.

But I also remember the toughest parts of my life as a neurodivergent person being stuck in depression nd anxiety and my fandoms being ny o ly reason to live and keep going. We can't control our hyperfixations and sometimes they're all we have.

All that being said I believe THERE IS A FUCKING MIDDLE GROUND.

You can absolutely, privately or publicly, consume or create HP related content without monetarily supporting JKR. JUST PIRATE THE GAME. Wait a while if you have to, you don't have to abandon your interests but you can do the bare minimum to make sure your consumption doesn't do more harm than it absolutely has to. PIRATE THE BOOKS. PIRATE THE GAMES. THE MOVIES. DON'T BUY OFFICIAL MERCH. DIY YOUR OWN MERCH. Buy stuff from fan artists whose wiews you know and support. CREATE FAN CONTENT THAT IMPROVES ON JKRS STEREOTYPE FILLED INTERPRETATIONS OF THE CHARACTERS.

The content is *yours*. Rip it from that bitch's hands and RUN WITH IT but for the love of god DON'T CONTINUE GIVING HER MONEY AND PUBLICITY

IT'S THE LEAST YOU CAN DO for your fellow trans folk out here.

[8ice8]

WOMEN NEVER """GET IN THE WAY""" OF YOUR MLM SHIPS YOU'RE JUST MISOGYNISTIC

[babbelswoofominides]

I think purity culture has ruined fandoms: everyone is so ansty to prove how pure they are that they attack and harass people horribly and call it "activism". Be it people attacking teenagers in the Marauders fandom because there's this new rule you can't even write the words Harry Potter without summoning a hoard of naysayers who accuse you of endorsing holocaust or some shit just for liking something linked with Miss Black Mold, or be it people harassing SA victims who still dare say they find solace in their old NCG's fandoms, in the stories they loved and made theirs from their childhoods or as adults. This uglyness that runs into tumblr and is infecting every fandom, every social media actually, is so fucking gross. Putting the blame of the evils of consumerism or rich people onto the single person reeks of late stage activism. No one knows what to do anymore, so we start eating each others, and then purity culture morphs into these extreme forms of harassment, that are becoming more and more normal by the day.

I'm starting to get tired of the internet as a whole.

[breakfast-with-a-side-of-angst]

Honestly, though, JK Rowling told us what type of person she was from the very beginning by the way she treats Hufflepuffs. They’re background characters — never taken particularly seriously. They’re martyrs or unimportant. The main characters and the villains alike have no respect for them.

JK Rowling took the characters who value things like kindness, honesty, and loyalty, and she made them a joke. They’ll never measure up against the brave or clever or cunning. She created a culture where being kind or loyal, makes you a leftover.

She told us what her values were from the very beginning.

[crisisdotorg]

ok, fuck jkr's hogwarts legacy anti-lgbtq+ néo nazi shit, I want a percy jackson camp halfblood game PLEASE

[theflikchic]

Wait...so when two popular and rich teenage boys strip another boy down to his underwear in public and physically assault him, they're "just teens" and their "brains haven't fully developed" so we should "cut them some slack". But when an impoverished and abused boy has his dark fantasies stroked and basically groomed for a hate group by his peers once he leaves school, he's "irredeemable" and "unforgivable for as long as he lives"? How does THAT work?