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rwhitisissle@lemmy.world 9 months agonumber puzzles that need to be solved.
In JK Rowling’s mind the number puzzles are things like “How many genders are there?”
The correct answer, of course, is “Fuck you, JK Rowling, that’s how many.”
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 9 months ago
So crazy that a woman who liberally employed the Polyjuice Potion in her novels and had ghosts who would just wander through the restrooms to talk to you would take some of the most insanely conservative positions on changing your appearance or using the toilet.
rwhitisissle@lemmy.world 9 months ago
“Billionaire has shitty beliefs. In other news, the weather in London is still shit.”
Crack0n7uesday@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’ve been to London, sometimes it’s a little sunny with some overcast…
Microw@lemm.ee 9 months ago
She has been outspoken on the fact that her positions are basically due to personal trauma and nothing else
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Why would you encourage more people to be sexually assaulted as a response to your own history?
Numhold@feddit.de 9 months ago
Remember when the kids misgendered Hagrid‘s dragon?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Had to jog my memory, because I haven’t read these books in nearly 20 years.
But yeah. I think the Rowling of the mid-90s was relatively chill and fairly progressive, given the tone of her writing. It wasn’t until she got Disney-fied (or, I guess, Warner Brothers’d) that she took a turn. The novels really take a dive in book 5 and her political opinions just get nastier and nastier after that.
Numhold@feddit.de 9 months ago
The Norberta reveal actually happens in Deathly Hallows. And frankly, I don‘t see a shift that is connected to the movies. What I actually observed was the overcompensation for criticism two books after the fact (remember Winky?) that Shaun described in his video essay.