J.K. Rowling's new book, The Ink Black Heart, features a storyline about creator who was doxxed by her own fandom over content viewers found transphobic and racist.
The first few books had all sorts of LGBT-coded characters, magic that literally let you change your gender, and a young group of alienated iconoclasts fighting against a moribund, sclerotic status quo that threatened to crush them for being different.
Then JK Rowling blew up, got personally famous, and partnered with Disney. Suddenly the stories were about defending the status quo, horny teenagers in painfully vanilla relationships, pro-sports, and big explosions.
it was always about defending the status quo. the first book has hagrid say the reason magic is secret is because muggles would want too much help, like how magic can cure any disease might save lives
The pro-sports was always there, none of them were really queer coded, she didn't partner with Disney, they never really fought the status quo, just kinda complained sometimes, and magic never really changed anyone's gender. We see women only look like men using magic in the last book, ever other transformation was in the same gender, because jkr can't imagine gender changing. Thd books and author sucks but learn what you're talking about before speaking.
The rec-league shit was there as a rhetorical device to build drama and advance the plot. Book 2's use of Quidditch as this insanely dangerous sport that puts you in the hospital was good aktuly.
she didn’t partner with Disney
It was Warner Bros. My mistake.
they never really fought the status quo, just kinda complained sometimes
The first three books were genuinely anti-establishment in character. Book 3, in particular, did a great job of painting the institutional world as cruel, corrupt, incompetent, and plagued by bigotry.
magic never really changed anyone’s gender
The Polyjuice Potion does this on a number of occasions.
Thd books and author sucks but learn what you’re talking about before speaking.
He only gets injured because his broom and one of the balls is enchanted in books one and two respectively. Quiditch is played as super cool the whole way through, anything dangerous is to make it look more exciting, not like a bad idea. The reason we don't see any danger from it later is because less and less time is spent on the field and people just try directly to kill him. The most dangerous thing that happens at a game is book four, when the world cup gets attacked, which has nothing to do with the sport.
This is not in a revolutionary "we need to fix the system way" but in a boomer "government sucks why can't I do what I want?" way. They don't ever suggest there is something wrong with using dementors to suck people's souls out, just that Sirius is innocent so they have to free him. This makes sense at this reading level, as kids at like 13 are still learning how the world works, thinking up new better systems is beyond them. However, there is no way the government is bad in 3 it isn't worse in 5, and the same solution of "hope old white guy in charge of school fixes it" is all they come up with. Heck, in later books it is clearly shown that the status quo had literally no possible way of fighting voldemort, and they still just want to go back to that, no changes.
The only time someone changes gender with polyjuice is in the last book when they are sneaking Harry away and have some girls and women disguised as him to throw off their pursuers. That's literally the only time, when all that was required was some visual and no speech or behavior,.and they all comment on how gross they feel. Past that, turning into someone else's appearance for a short amount of time using really expensive ingredients is not exactly a transition surgery.
remember when JK Rowling had a huge LGBT following?
The first few books had all sorts of LGBT-coded characters, magic that literally let you change your gender, and a young group of alienated iconoclasts fighting against a moribund, sclerotic status quo that threatened to crush them for being different.
Then JK Rowling blew up, got personally famous, and partnered with Disney. Suddenly the stories were about defending the status quo, horny teenagers in painfully vanilla relationships, pro-sports, and big explosions.
Oh well...
Remember when JK Rowling tried to take credit for making Dumbledore a gay character without actually writing a gay character?
She at least kinda-sorta alluded to it in Book 7. But even then, "gay for Wizard Hitler" wasn't exactly her brightest literary moment.
it was always about defending the status quo. the first book has hagrid say the reason magic is secret is because muggles would want too much help, like how magic can cure any disease might save lives
The pro-sports was always there, none of them were really queer coded, she didn't partner with Disney, they never really fought the status quo, just kinda complained sometimes, and magic never really changed anyone's gender. We see women only look like men using magic in the last book, ever other transformation was in the same gender, because jkr can't imagine gender changing. Thd books and author sucks but learn what you're talking about before speaking.
The rec-league shit was there as a rhetorical device to build drama and advance the plot. Book 2's use of Quidditch as this insanely dangerous sport that puts you in the hospital was good aktuly.
It was Warner Bros. My mistake.
The first three books were genuinely anti-establishment in character. Book 3, in particular, did a great job of painting the institutional world as cruel, corrupt, incompetent, and plagued by bigotry.
The Polyjuice Potion does this on a number of occasions.
:spiderman-pointing:
He only gets injured because his broom and one of the balls is enchanted in books one and two respectively. Quiditch is played as super cool the whole way through, anything dangerous is to make it look more exciting, not like a bad idea. The reason we don't see any danger from it later is because less and less time is spent on the field and people just try directly to kill him. The most dangerous thing that happens at a game is book four, when the world cup gets attacked, which has nothing to do with the sport.
This is not in a revolutionary "we need to fix the system way" but in a boomer "government sucks why can't I do what I want?" way. They don't ever suggest there is something wrong with using dementors to suck people's souls out, just that Sirius is innocent so they have to free him. This makes sense at this reading level, as kids at like 13 are still learning how the world works, thinking up new better systems is beyond them. However, there is no way the government is bad in 3 it isn't worse in 5, and the same solution of "hope old white guy in charge of school fixes it" is all they come up with. Heck, in later books it is clearly shown that the status quo had literally no possible way of fighting voldemort, and they still just want to go back to that, no changes.
The only time someone changes gender with polyjuice is in the last book when they are sneaking Harry away and have some girls and women disguised as him to throw off their pursuers. That's literally the only time, when all that was required was some visual and no speech or behavior,.and they all comment on how gross they feel. Past that, turning into someone else's appearance for a short amount of time using really expensive ingredients is not exactly a transition surgery.
Maybe they were negative stereotypes but we were too young or too not Br*tish to perceive them that way?
You mean for the queer coding thing? Maybe, but I don't think so.