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

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gaysexenjoyer said:
Remember that the one Jewish Hogwarts student is literally named Anthony Goldstein.

Joanne is just silly like that.
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I can't be arsed to go back and check but I think it was mentioned recently itt that JK Rowling very obviously was influenced by Dickens when it came to naming characters and I agree that it explains a lot.
 
I can't imagine her publisher not discouraging her putting Gandalf the Gay overtly in the text, as schools were buying a lot of Harry Potter books directly as well as being a venue where students would buy personal copies via book sales, student catalogs, etc. Having large districts reject Potter could have made an actual dent in the profits if enough parents in Texas or similar raised objections.

I haven't read any of the Harry Potter books since their releases back in the day, but isn't Dumbledore's deal something like "in his youth he fell in love with a bad wizard and thus turned away from romance and focused on high-minded wizard stuff instead" which works fine as an author's mental backstory that informs the character but doesn't need to actually be put on the page. As told in the books, he might have just had a really intense friendship that fucked with his head and made him reconsider his own values. Either way, it was only so relevant to the fun adventure of "how teenage Harry stopped Wizard Hitler."
 
Candidate No 7 said:
Not really. They went ahead with all the slogans and marches when they were in opposition but Wes Streeting appears to have seen the light and TRAs have hated every single decision he has made since being a minister. Trannies really really really hate Labour now and have mostly decamped to the Greens.
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From my understanding it seems to be mostly younger MPs/members who have been trying to push troon shit.
 
When will it begin? said:
The most you could accuse Harry Potter of is being classist. Like yeah the death eaters are bad nobles but all the heroes except Hermione Granger come from old and storied houses.
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I disagree; classism (particularly the way it works in British society) is a theme that was directly explored. I don’t think the movies did a good job of communicating it, but the books make it abundantly clear that the Weasleys were both poor (or at least working class enough that they didn’t have nice things) and looked down upon by other wizard families for it. Even being purebloods didn’t cancel out the classism; Draco makes fun of Ron for his family’s reputation when they first meet.

It’s implied that this is one reason why Mr. Weasley empathizes with Muggles as much as he does, and that his reluctance to embrace Wizard Supremacy has limited his upward mobility at work.

Zeb Macahan said:
Wether she retconned Dumbledore to be gay or not we will never know unless she tells it outright. But I read Deathly Hallows as a 13-year old. And even I thought that it might have been more than just an intense "friendship" with Grindelwald.
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I was starting college when the last book came out. Speaking as someone who was never into fanfic or shipping, I could also see the subtext without squinting too hard. There was definitely more substance there than with Remus/Sirius, the pairing all the HP fujoshis were obsessed with at the time.

Do I think JK Rowling envisioned Dumbledore from the start as a gay icon and has been dropping hints about it the whole series? Highly unlikely. Do I think she just impulsively pulled “Dumbledore is gay” out of her ass on the spot during that interview solely for woke points? Also highly unlikely.

I think it was an idea that developed organically in the process of planning out the backstory with Grindlewald, but not one that she had the ability or the need to expand on in detail at the time. Apparently she had told the film writers about it before it became public knowledge (they were going to add some throwaway lines where Dumbledore waxes nostalgic about a female love interest from his youth), so it checks out.
 
Liber Nihil said:
There was definitely more substance there than with Remus/Sirius, the pairing all the HP fujoshis were obsessed with at the time.
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Fujo teenagers perving on dumpy "dad's friend' types skeeves me out so hard. I want to blame porn and societal issues, but lack the cohesion and ability to do so succinctly. My tinfoil hat and I know there's something deeper at work with this shit than just single parent households, SSRIs, and tumblr.
 
DYLAN ‘DIELAWN’ VOLK said:
Fujo teenagers perving on dumpy "dad's friend' types skeeves me out so hard.
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One half of the HP fandom was made up of annoying but relatively harmless shippers who fought over which boy their self insert (usually Hermione) would end up with.

The other half was made up of deranged Remus/Sirius fangirls and fujoshis who were into any category of sexual depravity you could imagine. Also way too many adult/minor pairings were disturbingly popular, like Draco Malfoy x his own father, Snape x Hermione, and Harry x Sirius.
 
In an alternate universe where Rowling is pro-troon, would Hermione get a transition arc and become a flamboyant power-bottom FTM trans gay yaoiboy named "Himmione"?
 
Liber Nihil said:
Do I think JK Rowling envisioned Dumbledore from the start as a gay icon and has been dropping hints about it the whole series? Highly unlikely. Do I think she just impulsively pulled “Dumbledore is gay” out of her ass on the spot during that interview solely for woke points? Also highly unlikely.
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It's pretty obvious that Dumbledore is gay when he has his big explanation with Harry at the end of Order of the Phoenix - and there is a whole other can of worms there. He practically declares to Harry.
 
Silence of the Troons said:
Counterpoint: Draco x Hermione fans.
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I lump any slightly edgy but not insane/illegal straight pairing in that category, though. Girls who ship their self insert with the bad boy instead of the main hero are a dime a dozen. It’s mostly funny to me because they think he’s this dark and broody antihero when canonically he’s a petulant, cowardly little shit who’s probably inbred.

I’d also add the Snape fangirls who projected onto Lily and are mad she didn’t choose him.
 
LOL of the day (well it's a week-old but whatever):

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Hyperborean said:
Chad middle schooler dressing up as Harry Potter, unintentionally mogging on their seething virgin troon teacher

Imagine being so angry at kids dressing up and having fun, because they're dressing up as a "WRONG EVIL PROBLEMATIC FASCIST CHARACTER". Being libtarded sounds miserable.
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I could post this here virtually every week:

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