Rowling Derangement Syndrome - "TERF/Woke Author Bad!!1"

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90 Day Beyonce said:
What's this about eight books? There are seven. Did this genius only watch the movies?
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There's a two-part (~6 hour) Broadway stageplay titled Harry Potter and the Cursed Child which is considered canon along with the books by JKR. It involves a super-enhanced time turner, and bunch of grandfather paradoxes that ultimately prevent Harry's kids, most importantly the protagonist Albus Severus, from ever being born...

because Harry died at the end of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in the revised timeline (sparing Cedric Diggory). Scorpius Malfoy returns to the present timeline to find Harry Potter has been dead for decades, his BFF Albus Severus was never born, and Voldemort reigns. Scorpius then has to restore the OG timeline and is narrowly prevented from doing so in Part 2 Act 3. Harry Potter (now alive again in a partially restored timeline) goes back to the night before his own parents were killed to rescue Albus S. and Draco and fully restore the OG timeline. Then Harry has to allow his own parents to get killed by Voldemort - again - to preserve the continuity of the true(? canonical? preferred?) timeline.

I haven't seen this play but this is my summary based on WP.
Most Potter fans consider this play to be the "8th Book".
 
Der weiße Teufel said:
People still ship HP like crazy. Sure, there was some drama recently because a Hermione/Draco fic with the serial numbers filed off (like how 50 Shades was a Twilight fic first) got officially published and at least part of that was general JKR hate, but they still write all their favourite ships, you just need to slap a "I think JKR is a bitch" disclaimer at the top. They also focus more on characters that did not play a major role in the books, mostly the Marauders and Regulus Black, who is often turned into a pooner.
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That reminds me of a fairly popular fic in the Harry x Hermione shipping community where Harry goes to therapy and the therapist is a tranny.
 
Stan said:
There's a two-part (~6 hour) Broadway stageplay titled Harry Potter and the Cursed Child which is considered canon along with the books by JKR. It involves a super-enhanced time turner, and bunch of grandfather paradoxes that ultimately prevent Harry's kids, most importantly the protagonist Albus Severus, from ever being born...

because Harry died at the end of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in the revised timeline (sparing Cedric Diggory). Scorpius Malfoy returns to the present timeline to find Harry Potter has been dead for decades, his BFF Albus Severus was never born, and Voldemort reigns. Scorpius then has to restore the OG timeline and is narrowly prevented from doing so in Part 2 Act 3. Harry Potter (now alive again in a partially restored timeline) goes back to the night before his own parents were killed to rescue Albus S. and Draco and fully restore the OG timeline. Then Harry has to allow his own parents to get killed by Voldemort - again - to preserve the continuity of the true(? canonical? preferred?) timeline.

I haven't seen this play but this is my summary based on WP.
Most Potter fans consider this play to be the "8th Book".
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You will never convince me that script was given any more attention by JKR than a quick read through after Jack Thorne wrote it, and a “well it’s terrible but I don’t care anymore, this will stop people asking for more goddamn Potter books”.
 
Trapper said:
You will never convince me that script was given any more attention by JKR than a quick read through after Jack Thorne wrote it, and a “well it’s terrible but I don’t care anymore, this will stop people asking for more goddamn Potter books”.
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It seems to me that Rowling was never really that interested in expanding on Harry's story. That's why she wrote the "19 Years Later" Epilogue in Deathly Hallows. Cringe names included.
 
Stan said:
There's a two-part (~6 hour) Broadway stageplay titled Harry Potter and the Cursed Child which is considered canon along with the books by JKR. It involves a super-enhanced time turner, and bunch of grandfather paradoxes that ultimately prevent Harry's kids, most importantly the protagonist Albus Severus, from ever being born...

because Harry died at the end of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in the revised timeline (sparing Cedric Diggory). Scorpius Malfoy returns to the present timeline to find Harry Potter has been dead for decades, his BFF Albus Severus was never born, and Voldemort reigns. Scorpius then has to restore the OG timeline and is narrowly prevented from doing so in Part 2 Act 3. Harry Potter (now alive again in a partially restored timeline) goes back to the night before his own parents were killed to rescue Albus S. and Draco and fully restore the OG timeline. Then Harry has to allow his own parents to get killed by Voldemort - again - to preserve the continuity of the true(? canonical? preferred?) timeline.

I haven't seen this play but this is my summary based on WP.
Most Potter fans consider this play to be the "8th Book".
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Was the villain a yellow Harry Potter with red eyes from the future who believed that causing more tragedy for the main Harry Potter would cause him to become the greatest Harry Potter ever to live? Just wondering, because it seems like the author might have been reading some other pop culture when he wrote that one.
 
Trapper said:
You will never convince me that script was given any more attention by JKR than a quick read through after Jack Thorne wrote it, and a “well it’s terrible but I don’t care anymore, this will stop people asking for more goddamn Potter books”.
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Entirely possible but the play is still endorsed as canon by Rowling.
News Enjoyer said:
Was the villain a yellow Harry Potter with red eyes from the future who believed that causing more tragedy for the main Harry Potter would cause him to become the greatest Harry Potter ever to live? Just wondering, because it seems like the author might have been reading some other pop culture when he wrote that one.
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No the villain is still Voldemort, who manages to fight his way back into existence with the power of time travel in the hands of dumbass kids who can’t appreciate what could possibly go wrong by changing the events of Book Four and all the canon events that occur thereafter.
TBH the time turner shit in Prisoner of Azkaban already raised too many uncomfortable questions (eg has Hermoine been fucking up the short term timeline all semester just to attend more classes?? How does Harry in short term timeline 1 get saved by himself three hours in the future if he would have died to a Dementor the first time around?) Reviving it as a core set piece for the play is gutsy for Rowling but I still question it a bit.

I would probably watch the condensed one-night version of Cursed Child though.
 
In a way it baffles my mind that Warner was seriously considering adapting the Cursed Child with all the big names involved (Radcliffe, Watson, Grint). It's that what we're doing now WB? Adapting fanfiction tier slop? Okay.
 
chocolatebargalileo said:
It's that what we're doing now WB? Adapting fanfiction tier slop?
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Brother, fanfiction tier slop is a good day for Warner. Maybe you didn't see them very nearly dodge publishing a Red Hood run by the esteemed troongoloid writer of Manhunt, or the time they turned the sequel to their billion-dollar surprise hit Joker movie into a humiliation ritual for anyone who liked the first one, or the game literally about helping Harley Quinn murder DC's flagship heroes (and Cyborg).

Publishing fanfiction that isn't actively attempting to denigrate the property is batting way above their usual average. The immense restraint they've exercised with Harry Potter is almost certainly a testament to the iron grip JKR keeps on the franchise and their fear of having the license withdrawn more than any actual self control on the part of Warner themselves.
 
I saw Cursed Child and imo they did the effects and stunts first and then wrote the story around it, like John Wick. Those are excellent and everything else just kind of happens. Evil girl flies up and down in spooky costume that looks like bird wings? she must be .. uhh a supervillain named the Augury! and then JKR signed it all off because as a time turner alternate timeline it literally doesn't fucking matter at all.
 
They're mad at Rowling for giving the bad guys a bad guy name.
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kazuhiro said:
Another random find on Bluesky.
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I had to go look this dude up, apparently he claimed to have implanted electrodes into some 24 year old gay pothead's brain in the '70s and stimulated him using said electrodes and porn until he could have sex with a female prostitute.

His name was Robert Galbraith Heath, And I somehow doubt that JK Rowling was aware of him and choosing him specifically when she chose the name. Stuff like this is funny whenever someone on the internet does it, like public figures are trying to hide Easter eggs about their hidden secret ideologies for no specific purpose.
 
Mellow Malevolent said:
I had to go look this dude up, apparently he claimed to have implanted electrodes into some 24 year old gay pothead's brain in the '70s and stimulated him using said electrodes and porn until he could have sex with a female prostitute.

His name was Robert Galbraith Heath, And I somehow doubt that JK Rowling was aware of him and choosing him specifically when she chose the name. Stuff like this is funny whenever someone on the internet does it, like public figures are trying to hide Easter eggs about their hidden secret ideologies for no specific purpose.
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She has mentioned how she came up with the name https://robert-galbraith.com/about-the-author/ and only trannies would think she'd lie about this kind of thing. It even would be incredibly lame to pick this insignificant dude's name on purpose.
 
There was just a post complaining about how supposedly on the nose the names in her children's book series are, and now we have the same type of people creating conspiracy theories about her picking a spooky evil pseudonym to show just how evil she is. They'll fling anything at the wall, won't they? Something will eventually stick, I'm sure.

As Der weiße Teufel says, Rowling explains the whole thing about the pseudonym in her Cormoran Strike page. Reading her thought process and comparing it to these people's is hilarious:

Was it always your idea to write under a pseudonym for these books?

Yes, I really wanted to go back to the beginning of a writing career in this new genre, to work without hype or expectation and to receive totally unvarnished feedback. I wanted it to be just about the writing. It was a fantastic experience and I only wish it could have gone on a little longer than it did. I was grateful at the time for all the feedback from publishers and readers, and for some great reviews. Being Robert Galbraith was all about the work, which is my favourite part of being a writer.

Since my cover has been blown, I continue to write as Robert to keep the distinction from other writing and because I rather enjoy having another persona.

This one's funny: she picked a male name because she wanted a person as far removed from her as possible. I wish these people could read.

Why have you chosen to write these books under a male pseudonym? Does it influence your writing in any way?

I certainly wanted to take my writing persona as far away as possible from me, so a male pseudonym seemed a good idea. It doesn’t consciously change the way I write. I think I write differently, because it’s a very different genre.

And it turns out that the surname "Galbraith" isn't taken only by a mad scientist:

Why the name Robert Galbraith?

I chose Robert because it’s one of my favourite men’s names, because Robert F Kennedy is my hero and because, mercifully, I hadn’t used it for any of the characters in the Potter series or The Casual Vacancy.

Galbraith came about for a slightly odd reason. When I was a child, I really wanted to be called ‘Ella Galbraith’, and I’ve no idea why. I don’t even know how I knew that the surname existed, because I can’t remember ever meeting anyone with it. Be that as it may, the name had a fascination for me. I actually considered calling myself L A Galbraith for the Strike series, but for fairly obvious reasons decided that initials were a bad idea.

Odder still, there was a well-known economist called J K Galbraith, something I only remembered by the time it was far too late. I was completely paranoid that people might take this as a clue and land at my real identity, but thankfully nobody was looking that deeply at the author’s name.

(The last line in that spoiler is a sadly ironic way to finish the post.)
 
I wonder if it occurs to any of them that Joanne can be called by a male name in interviews and not immediately have a meltdown , and what that might mean about gender identity. Shouldn't she start frothing at the mouth and try to kill herself from the misgendering attack? If deadnaming is so awful for troons because it attacks their true gender, then why can cis people have different sexed alter egos without having a mental breakdown?
 
Mellow Malevolent said:
I wonder if it occurs to any of them that Joanne can be called by a male name in interviews and not immediately have a meltdown , and what that might mean about gender identity. Shouldn't she start frothing at the mouth and try to kill herself from the misgendering attack? If deadnaming is so awful for troons because it attacks their true gender, then why can cis people have different sexed alter egos without having a mental breakdown?
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For real women being called a male name similar to your own doesn’t read as an insult. It just sails past you like a haymaker that didn’t connect. (You can’t insult me by calling me “Stan”.) cL The more common and broadly insulting move is to call the woman you’re mad at a diminutive/similar enough of her name you know she doesn’t use - eg “Joanie”, “Jo—Anna” etc.

Helps that “Joanne” actually has relatively few of these diminutives. It also helps that Rowling doesn’t give a fuck if you call her Joanne.
 
Gondolindrim said:
They're mad at Rowling for giving the bad guys a bad guy name.
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90 Day Beyonce said:
Almost like they're children's books.

Just because these people never read anything else in their lives beyond twitter feeds...
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Stab You in the Back said:
To be fair, Voldemort came up with that name when he was like 16 years old. I'm not expecting the height of allegorical foreshadowing from an emo teenager.
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And they're too autistic to get the joke, I'm pretty sure it was intentional.

Tom Riddle ultimately being an edgy boi who never grew up. Even though most edgy bois IRL just die during their first attempted massacre rather than becoming evil dark wizard lords who go on to survive another half century.
 
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