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you didn't want her to be happy before she was a transphobe?
Maybe they were only aware of Rowling once her transphobia came to light?
come on dude, everyone knows harry potter
Everyone knows a popular book series.
Not everyone knows, or even cares about the author.
Lol, that might be me, almost. I knew the movies and books existed (I think I have watched one), but I kinda doubt I remembered the writer's name. Just few years ago I made a friend who critisized the writer about her transphobic views and that's kinda how I got to know her😅
(I have to admit, I'm bad at watching movies/series or reading literature and just few years ago I tried to start reading literature systematically.)
Is that the guy who runs the ceramics shop down the road?
Yeah, he sells great jars. Check them out sometime.
Harry who?
Considering whats in her books I always knew she was at least a tad bit bigoted
What's in there?
There's the Gringotts bankers being a grotesque antisemitic stereotype straight out of Nazi propaganda, there's the racist caricature character names, there's the fact that only one character in the entire wizarding world is against slavery and she drops the subject forever after everyone makes fun of her for it, probably other shit I'm not remembering right now..
If it's like in the movies this sound like a stretch, pretty much every fantasy has something like this
Isn't dobby being freed from his slavery and help herry one of the main event in the story?
In my head canon: Dobby was killed by the author because he was the one elf to reject slavery.
Why would you think that? Dobby is one of the best characters in the story, he was freed from slavery by Harry and he gave his life to save him
Normal fantasy stuff like species representing racial stereotypes and slavery (yeah I don't get why it's "normal" in fantasy, she also did it worse then most others)
I would go so far as to say that most fantasy works that have slavery have either a "The world is an awful place everywhere, at all times, in all things" tone, or a "Slavery is BAD" tone. Whereas Rowling went for "Aktually, the slaves are happy and you shouldn't try to help them"
So are you making an argument against all fantasies?
Shaun made a good Video about the bigotry and liberal naivety of the Harry Potter series (including some pointings to her other works)
She's always been a "new labour" type. There were certainly people who disliked her before she went full TERF.
I personally assumed she already was, and I don't actively wish happiness on people who already experience it. But that's just me
Maybe just didn't care one way or another. It's just a joke, though.