J.K. Rowling needs to stop messing with Harry Potter - A general STFU J.K. Rowling MegaThread <3

Marco Fucko said:
Honestly I kind of wish Rowling did more with the House system, and one way to do that would have been putting Harry in Slytherin. One thing that always stuck out to me about Harry's personality is he had this dark underline, since he was raised in an abusive household and I recall the books mentioning his magic would trigger whenever he had particularly dark thoughts. There's the scene where he disappears the glass and Dudley falls into the snake habitat, and IIRC he accidentally apparated himself to a roof to avoid bullies.

So you've got this kid who's being bullied and all of a sudden he has an escape from that and as the sorting hat says "wants to prove himself". You can give him a lot of depth from that. Make him an academic tryhard and that's how he gets in with Hermione, make him really sporty and that's how he gets in with the Weasleys, and make him not having any classist pretensions a source of conflict since a solid chunk of Slytherin house is upper middle class. Have Harry be the aspirant side of ambition and cunning, as opposed to "normal" Slytherins who represent the upper crust's hold on wealth and power and their grooming their kids to inherit it.
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I think had Harry not said "Not Slytherin", the Hat would've put him in there. The Hat apparently had to think a bit for him, not as much as like with Neville or whoever it was the Hat was struggling with, but the Hat was considering it, told Harry he would've been great. Dusted off my copy very quick to see what the Hat said nevermind that it's on the Wiki lel:

"Difficult. Very difficult. Plenty of courage, I see. Not a bad mind either. There's talent, oh my goodness, yes--and a nice thirst to prove yourself, now that's interesting."

"Prove himself" I think was key as you said. Prove himself what or how, though? Was it to live up to everyone's expectations, or to be his own person? Not sure if this was ever expanded upon, or even followed through.

Thought I should point out that the Hat in the book apparently only speaks aloud to everyone when it chooses a House, though in the movie, it wasn't really a hat whispering in one's ear. That always confused me as a kid, like could no one else there hear the Hat giving his thoughts about the Potter boy? Then in Chamber of Secrets, Harry puts the Hat back on to talk to it, but in the movie they talk face-to-face--but the Hat also stood by his word that he would've done well in Slytherin.

Really makes you think. Would Harry have been ostracized in Slytherin because of his blood/infamy, or would he have made a difference? How "great" would he have been, as the Hat suggested? Malfoy I think showed a twinge of possibly changing his ways the longer he and Harry interacted as rivals, imagine if they were roommates. Real missed opportunity for an anti-hero arc and give that "good versus evil" black-and-white morality some gray, and he could've actually earned those leather pants.
 
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Some authors have left the agency that represents Rowling. They're standing up for her, I'm sure because of their commitment to free speech and not because Harry Potter probably brings them more money in an hour than these four have in their whole careers.

I know the films and books are done, but hasn't Harry Potter expanded to shops and theme parks and stuff? Those places must be worried the trannies will start turning up to scare the kids.
 
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Toshiba said:
I know the films and books are done, but hasn't Harry Potter expanded to shops and theme parks and stuff? Those places must be worried the trannies will start turning up to scare the kids.
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No more so than any other amusement park, I'm sure.
 
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Some authors have left the agency that represents Rowling. They're standing up for her, I'm sure because of their commitment to free speech and not because Harry Potter probably brings them more money in an hour than these four have in their whole careers.

I know the films and books are done, but hasn't Harry Potter expanded to shops and theme parks and stuff? Those places must be worried the trannies will start turning up to scare the kids.
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The authors who walked:
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"The Shape of Us", and "Dear Lily".

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Shitty art.

And nothing of value was lost.
 
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Oh, the irony.

These people often use their power to remove someone they don't agree with from their group to feel heroic.

Now, as they hold no power here, they are leaving and pretending they're powerless and martyrs.

If we were like them, we should be chasing them everywhere and get them banned from every other publishing house.

the most likely scenario is that they will try to boicot the company out of spite.

I counted 88 clients represented by this agency... 4 left, wow.

Effluvium said:
Watson is too far gone, Radcliffe was always a closet faggot, and Grint most likely just wants to be left alone.

That being the case, whether they like it or not, Rowling was the one that made it all possible for them. They were nobodies who could have landed any other roles, end up as damaged child actors with prolapsed sphincters, or be found after a bad overdose days later.
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IICR, Radcliffe did have issues with alcohol at some point. He's gotten better now.

Then there is no way Emma has become such a radical feminist without being probably a victim herself.

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Doctor Placebo said:
Harry did have being raised by an abusive family in defacto poverty in the underdog category. He had this thing going on in the earliest books where he's someone who has nothing only to suddenly be handed everything and he's uncomfortable with it, but in the later books that's dropped entirely in favor of a lot of teen angst that meanders in multiple directions but never goes anywhere.
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The problem here is the pacing of the books. Each books depicts a full year and the main action happens often at the end. Even when there is something bad happening, it's a full year of foreshadowing.

Based_Papa_John said:
Which also feeds into the Daddy issues that a lot of these guys suffer from.
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It only took one scene of James Potter being a bully for Harry to stop thinking his father was a good man.
 
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Meat and potatoes here, guys. Just...how bad is the HP cult? Let's be real here. How much was Rowling responsible for the political awakening of young and budding millennials? How many did she inspire to believe that they were "speshul" and destined for greatness? How many did she convince to take their daddy's pocket knives to carve a lightning shaped tramp stamp above their butt cheeks?

Just how much is this woman responsible for genuinely corrupting the slurry minds of the youth?

Whether her career goes up in smoke in the long run, I think she wouldn't even mind. I think a part of her is even exhausted with Harry Potter.
 
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Effluvium said:
Meat and potatoes here, guys. Just...how bad is the HP cult? Let's be real here. How much was Rowling responsible for the political awakening of young and budding millennials? How many did she inspire to believe that they were "speshul" and destined for greatness? How many did she convince to take their daddy's pocket knives to carve a lightning shaped tramp stamp above their butt cheeks?

Just how much is this woman responsible for genuinely corrupting the slurry minds of the youth?

Whether her career goes up in smoke in the long run, I think she wouldn't even mind. I think a part of her is even exhausted with Harry Potter.
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I'm sure HP is responsible for the radicalization of the Potter generation, especially the part where they are too tribal and the messianic complex. It's not Rowling's fault that these people built a full religion around it witout any supervision though.
 
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TrippinKahlua said:
JK made Harry too perfect. From being “The boy who lived” to being the Selected Quidditch Champion.
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Even as a kid something didn't feel right about Harry getting everything he wanted. I think the most egregious example of that was Gryffindor winning the House Cup in his first year.
 
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SamTheEagle said:
Even as a kid something didn't feel right about Harry getting everything he wanted. I think the most egregious example of that was Gryffindor winning the House Cup in his first year.
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Imagine seeing the cup get ripped from you after the party started because an old man set up tests that were likely designed to see how a kid who made your parents' lives hell would handle them.
 
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Don't mention Snape's name amongst Harry Potter fans least you trigger a rant about how he really was an incel and couldn't handle Lily's rejection.

All of these fans who denounce the books and J.K are going to the first ones to line up whenever a new ride debuts in the Wizarding World or when the FBAWTF comes out with another movie.

Maybe J.K should do like Stephen Meyer did and rewrite the first book but someone's else perspective-- maybe Hermione or Snape?

That would make all the fans instantly forget about her "problematic" thinking and worship her again.
 
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Fandom Trash said:
Don't mention Snape's name amongst Harry Potter fans least you trigger a rant about how he really was an incel and couldn't handle Lily's rejection.

All of these fans who denounce the books and J.K are going to the first ones to line up whenever a new ride debuts in the Wizarding World or when the FBAWTF comes out with another movie.

Maybe J.K should do like Stephen Meyer did and rewrite the first book but someone's else perspective-- maybe Hermione or Snape?

That would make all the fans instantly forget about her "problematic" thinking and worship her again.
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People just need to move on. I see it as a take it or leave it situation, just enjoy the books and films or consoom something else. No one's life should revolve around this stuff anyway to the extent it emotionally affects you that the creator of said stuff holds a different opinion.
 
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Another curious thing that we can blame HP for is how most of the current TDS people seem, I think, to have taken a lot from the childishness of the characters (who are indeed children).

When Dolores (the baddy from book 5) was in the school, they "rebelled" her by setting up the Dumbledore Army, but also, they were using pranks against her, Overall, the characters, being wizards, and because two of the big characters are big pranksters, do a lot of these shit, but these shit is very cringy and childish. Some (google) examples:

-Fred and George “forgot” that they’d hexed the custard creams and made them into their signature Canary Creams
-Putting a niffler in Umbridge's office
-Fred and George Weasley turned a fifth-floor corridor at Hogwarts into a swamp.
-Peeves blocked entrance to the Gryffindor Tower, telling students that they could only pass if they set fire to their pants
-Peevers simply tossing things at people being him the top-notch "prankster" of the books.

None of these shit is very elaborated. It's just hexes and potions that, don't know, make you cough. I guess Rowling isn't much of a prankster herself, so sure, I give her a pass that most of these "elaborate" jokes are a tamed child-oriented version of toilet humor. Fine.

But it's been quite adopted by her readers as though is the epitome of humor. That's why; I think, their "orange man" jokes are clever and sophisticated and they're convinced they're doing an actual harm to others.


Cr1ms0n_&_C10v3r said:
People just need to move on. I see it as a take it or leave it situation, just enjoy the books and films or consoom something else. No one's life should revolve around this stuff anyway to the extent it emotionally affects you that the creator of said stuff holds a different opinion.
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It's too late for that. Her readers have grown with Harry Potter in the same way a religious kid has grown respecting the bible as a sacred text. They bbase their existence and purpose.
 
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jellycar said:
Katherine Applegate of all people, is essentially the complete opposite of Jo.

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She has a trans daughter and supports causes. The fucking Animorphs lady. I kind of want to revisit those books lmao
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She brutally kills a bunch of crippled kids as cannon fodder near the end of it among the roller coaster of fucked up shit in that series.
 
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