I started this series back before I knew what a piece of shit Rowling was and for whatever reason I decided to get drunk and pirate the remaining movies. And fuck, they should have been named Liberal Meritocracies And How To Worship Them.
Yes, I know 
Newt is charming and autistic no matter what anyone says and the discourse around him being an example of nontoxic masculinity is great. The stuff about Dumbledore/Grindelwald being played straight in the second movie and then being gay again in the third (but now Grindelwald is no longer played by Depp?) is whatever. I’ll skip straight to the chase. This series seemed to just invoke the Holocaust and then forget about it.
In the second movie, it’s shown that Grindelwald has seen the future. He’s seen the Holocaust and the dropping of the atomic bomb and he shows this to his followers, claiming to want to stop it. He’s an opportunist, of course, because he’s Very Evil. But then in the third movie they confirm that his visions of the future are correct. In fact, it focuses on a crucial wizarding election held in Weimar Germany in 1933. But, twist! They have a magical creature that can tell when someone is Very Good, which lets them do that instead of an election. So the Very Evil man tries to win the election by tricking people, but the Very Good person wins because of the actions of the protagonists. So everything turned out great and nothing went wrong.
Oh right, the Holocaust. They literally do not address it. The dissolution of the Weimar Republic is not mentioned. It’s still coming. All the main characters saw it and know that it’s true and is coming and it’s just forgotten about because the Very Good person got magically elected. It really pissed me off, tbh.
Again, I know
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The original book makes allusion to the Holocaust by way of Voldemort and the Secret Wizard War his parents fight in. Except the conflict is resolved by way of a Very Special Boy, rather than the millions of lives and billions of hours of labor invested in a continent spanning slog.
Fantastic Beasts was supposed to be a different new thing. Not just some prequel to a prequel, but a Gilded Age jaunt through a magical world that gets away from Wizard High School and grows up a bit. The first movie delivered on that (even if it was a live action knock off of Card Capture Sakura). But the next two were just "Hey, y'all remember Harry Potter?" Total garbage.
JKRowling's book about principled Holocaust deniers standing up to the evil tankie Grindelwald.
damn, I didn't think Hollywood would actually follow her through with it.
I think it was written as a screenplay first. They made her have a co-writer after the second one lol:
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore is a 2022 fantasy film directed by David Yates from a screenplay by J. K. Rowling and Steve Kloves, based on a screenplay by Rowling.
Hmm, given Rowling's take on "Goblins", maybe I shouldn't be so shocked by this...
That does seem pretty on-brand for modern liberalism, some “neutral” technocratic device is used as to avoid politics and the political structure just genuflects to it instead of doing icky politics.
They have a magical creature that can tell when someone is Very Good, which lets them do that instead of an election.
What are you implying, the election was rigged?
It’s supposedly this universally known creature that we haven’t heard about until now
That's the structure and design of the series's entire magic system. JKR's major world building innovation involves making things up at random on the spot and letting the wiki maintainers clean up the mess.
Grindelwald knows his won’t bow to him, so he kills and and reanimates it via necromancy to force it to do so
Literally Diebold, fr, fr
So I haven't actually read it, but I read a summary of The Casual Vacancy, that shit reads like something Felix would write as a satire or how Twitter Libs think. Yet that's Rowling's actual worldview.
Even if she wasn't a transphobe she'd still be a massive lanyard dork.
Even if she wasn't a transphobe she'd still be a massive lanyard dork.
Her books are always so weirdly mean spirited, too, they just ooze pettiness and elitism.
The third one is probably the worst movie I’ve ever seen. I highly highly recommend listening to The Shrieking Shack podcast’s episodes on that series, they’re hilarious.
Long rant about child abuse in Harry Potter, cw for child abuse and death
Maybe I'm wrong because I only watched the first movie while half asleep but the character of Credence disturbs me. He is an obscurus, which is a wizard who got abused for being a wizard so their magic became a destructive parasitic entity. Handling of child abuse in Harry Potter already sucks but I got curious and checked the wiki and apparently Credence is too far gone and he is in his 20s(to be fair he joins sides with the wizard fascist, I can't remember the order of events so someone please tell me which way this went). Most obscurus just drop dead before ten btw.
Someone(probably Rowling) unironically went and wrote a character who gets abused their entire lives, isn't helped by anyone so he develops magic mental illness and becomes both a terrible person and a pure destructive force.
It wouldn't be bad if there was any actual representation of someone recovering from child abuse but there is four abused characters I can think of: -Credence who becomes mentally ill in a magic way and joins wizard fascism
-Ariana who dies as tragic back story for Dumbledore
-Harry who just doesn't have mental scars from the abuse. He doesn't need to recover because he doesn't seem to be affected.
-Voldemort who is born of rape, is inherently incapable of love and becomes magic Hitler.
Thanks for validating all the bad thoughts I had about getting abused wow such tolerance.
Edit: Sorry for dumping this here I just want to bring it up when I see something about Fantastic Beasts.
They’re really fun to watch if you like watching bad movies and making fun of them
It was supposed to a five movie series but I think the last two got canned
I'm gonna use this excuse to link to the excellent essay Fascistic Beasts And Why You Shouldn't Fight Them.
