because hosue elves exist in her books
What the hell is a house elf? Actually no, I don’t want to know. I never read Harry Potter, something about it being this huge established fantasy world that was too easy to get lost and too preoccupied in for me (my entire presence on this website kind of just happened, it wasn’t a willing choice).
That said, this makes me think that she’s created this whole fleshed out fantasy world with a ton of characters, so easy to immerse oneself in and get away from reality for a bit when you open up one of her books.
It seems like just the thing that these kinds of people, the woke and the special, would love. And they did. But now they hate her and some even dislike her work now because she was outspoken with her beliefs, probably knowing that this would happen and still didn’t care.
But it’s also worth noting that obviously only the most radical of trans people go on tirades like this, a lot of them just don’t agree with JKR but still like Harry Potter (I remember when the game was released in 2022, a ton of trans people said “I’m trans and I’m buying this game, I do not give a shit, I’m going to enjoy my Harry Potter video game”.)
It’s just so interesting how such an appealing troon franchise can go from deeply loved to deeply loathed by some of them.
Edit:
I think that's fairly simple. It's really hard to do the unreliable narrator thing in film because you're looking at the whole thing as an observer. You have to cheat and dodge (or use elaborate tricks like Nolan in Memento or Fincher in Fight Club). HH comes across as exactly what he is, a pedophile, in the movie, because you just see what he's doing.
I have never seen any of the movies, I’ll admit, but I have no idea why they even considered making the book into a movie. The type of literary devices it utilizes makes it so the media is only impactful in a novel form. You can’t have Humbert Humbert lying about how he’s a normal person while you have your eyes to refute whatever angle he tries to push. It’s not like you can just have a grown woman act as Lolita and then at the end reveal she’s a child either, because a huge part of his story WAS that she was a child and he knew that damn well.
Sorry about the Lolita and Harry Potter/society observations, it’s been a while and I’m a man of many words.