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

[Tigerwatch]

I hate to defend Kotaku, but this isn't manufactured outrage, it's organic.

Plenty of people have complained about Rowling's bullshit additions over the years from different angles, like how Dumbledore being gay either should've been incorporated on the main story or not brought up at all later. When the latest Fantastic Beasts trailer came out I saw with my own two eyes not just die hard Potter spergs complain about Nagini being an asian woman, but normies as well (because seriously, what the fuck).

That being said I don't think an author expanding the universe they've created and adding new details is a bad thing on itself; Rowling's additions to the Potter canon are bad because she's a bad writer and the original books were bad even though her fans can't accept this.

Kotaku's just late to the party (again).

 

[Henry Wyatt]

for kotaku this isn't that bad of an article

BTW hedwig is a pansexual humankin

 

[MediocreMilt]

We really should start a betting ring as to what characters get niggerfied/wammenized/faggoted

Gandalf : high probability of going black
Frodo : DEFINITELY made a faggot
Sam : see above....and probably black/brown which will stir some REEE outrage because hes Frodo's servant
Merry : if frodo/sam are not made gay, Merry and Pippin will definitely be
Pippin : see above...if not will be made a wammen
Aragorn: nigger. definitely made a nigger.
Boromir: will remain a FFFFFFFFUCKING WHITE MAAALE because he is the closest the fellowship has to a "bad" character. his antipathy for aragorn will be because muh racism
Legolas: brown bi womyn of color. this will be the character made specifically for tumblr
Gimli: will remain a FFFFUCKING WHITE MAAALE and his "lol silly comic sidekick" factor will be dialed up 1000% and all his competent and awesome moments will be given to brown womyn legolas

Don't forget the One Cock Ring to rule them all

 

[Coelacanth]

Kotaku's just late to the party (again).

inb4 JK Rowling announces that Buckbeak is pansexual and was secretly in a sexual relationship with Sirius.

Seriously though JK Rowling has become a spoilt child whose time in the limelight has passed, yet she still refuses to let go and enjoy the rest of her life in luxury. As a side note has anybody here read the other book she made for adults? I think there was some social justice stuff in that one too if I recall correctly...

 

[Tigerwatch]

inb4 JK Rowling announces that Buckbeak is pansexual and was secretly in a sexual relationship with Sirius.

Seriously though JK Rowling has become a spoilt child whose time in the limelight has passed, yet she still refuses to let go and enjoy the rest of her life in luxury. As a side note has anybody here read the other book she made for adults? I think there was some social justice stuff in that one too if I recall correctly...

They're crime fiction so you could fit social justice themes/topics in easier but no one actually read them since she never fucking talks about them.

She's written other books that take place in the Harry Potter universe, but insists Dumbledore was gay instead of actually putting a gay person in her new books for whatever exceptional reason.

 

[Clop]

They're crime fiction so you could fit social justice themes/topics in easier but no one actually read them since she never fucking talks about them.

She's written other books that take place in the Harry Potter universe, but insists Dumbledore was gay instead of actually putting a gay person in her new books for whatever exceptional reason.

She should've taken a page from Ren & Stimpy's creator. When asked about whether a character is gay, you answer "I don't know. It's none of my business" because it isn't relevant to your work.

Thing about gay characters in most fictional works is that there's usually no reason for them to share their naughties. It's just attention whoring to announce it and that makes for an annoying character trait. For all anyone would ever know, half of the fictional universe could be gay and we'd have no way of knowing it because they wouldn't have a broomstick up their arse about going on about their personal sex lives, but such a notion fucking constantly escapes the journo trannies who want gays to be showcased like pure-bred poodles.

 

[Zorin OS Is Awesome]

I'm so freaking sick of J.K. trying to retroactively make the books a liberal masterpiece. THey were originally amazing but her attempts to expand upon the "Potterverse" have ruined the fun for me. It's sad to see this beloved book series be ruined by a bitch like her.

 

[Adolf Von Merkel]

You know that she is going still doing it because she know that faggots sperg whatever she say something stupid like hermione is black?

 

[Caralho]

As a side note has anybody here read the other book she made for adults? I

No, hence the reason why she started on that Harry Potter play probably.

 

[Dr. Samuel Hayden]

She's desperately trying to make the Harry Potter series as woke as humanly possible because it keeps people talking about her and she misses the fame she got when the books first came out. I can't imagine how pissy she is because no one reads any of her other garbage so she keeps trying to 'improve' her best work to regain attention.

I don't see how she's really ruining anything unless she burnt every single book in the series and published new editions where everyone's a black pansexual Muslim transfemme. I can just grab the books and reread them and ignore all the insufferable social media. I just don't care about HP anymore as an adult so I haven't lost any money to her.

 

[8777BB5]

No, hence the reason why she started on that Harry Potter play probably.

Which most Potter fans hate because she only provided the story and the two people who wrote it basically ripped off the fanfic My Immortal.,Also as for her crime books, they are some of the most childish things ever written. From the comical overuse of profanity to her not being able to write without overusing adverbs to the characters being 1-D they are a true slog to get through. The only reason they sold was the publisher wisely "leaked" the real author's name because the first run sale was in the low hundreds. Pretty poor performance for an accomplished author

 

[Muttnik]

Guardians of Ga'hoole was a better book series anyway. That one at least had badass owls killing each other to WW2 imagery. Too bad the movie sucked monkey balls.

Honestly, I just want Rowling to stop. I want the millennials to stop. Harry Potter is a fun book series for a younger generation to kickstart their way into reading more complex, better novels. It's not the holy Tumblr Bible everyone wants it to be.

 

[Pickle Inspector]

I bet one day Rowling will release a Star Wars-esque special edition of the books which makes everything worse.

how does magic work, exactly?

Literally a wizard did it! Why are adults getting worked up about magic in a children’s book?

Rowling, meanwhile, has pointed out that “white skin was never specified” for Hermione in the books.

Another reason why Tolkien's work is infinitely superior in every way

He had the common courtesy to die before he thought of changing his works years after they were published

I mean he did rewrite The Hobbit but it was just to make everything sync up with his later LOTR books so it doesn’t really count.

I’m glad the LOTR movies got made when they did.

 

[Splendid]

made Dumbledore gay for no reason what so ever other than to pander to LGBTQ bullshit years after the books were done.

To be fair, the books had a pretty heavy subtext about him being gay.

 

[Graffiti canvas]

To be fair, the books had a pretty heavy subtext about him being gay.

To be fair, you had to be wanting to find that hole that fits your peg to think anything in those books had anything to do with Dumbldore's sexuality.

 

[Tigerwatch]

Guardians of Ga'hoole was a better book series anyway. That one at least had badass owls killing each other to WW2 imagery. Too bad the movie sucked monkey balls.

Honestly, I just want Rowling to stop. I want the millennials to stop. Harry Potter is a fun book series for a younger generation to kickstart their way into reading more complex, better novels. It's not the holy Tumblr Bible everyone wants it to be.

Yeah but it also turned kids into furries.
(Warriors still takes the cake for that though)

 

[Judge Holden]

Imma be honest. The best thing to come out of Harry Potter was the Dirty Potter series

 

[Red Hood]

How about "JK Rowling just needs to fucking STOP."

 

[Kari Kamiya]

It's a series of children's books about the never-ending war between good and evil, and growing up, there just happened to be other things in it to give it the illusion of something much deeper and thought-provoking than it actually is. I don't know why that's not "good enough" for some people to accept.

I completely understand the need for a creator to expand on their worlds that they couldn't entirely fit into the main series proper (it happens), but honestly, I believe Rowling when she says that Harry popped into her mind out of the blue when she was on the train one day. This happens to a lot of people, but folks who truly care about their work will put time, thought, research, and effort into fleshing out their worlds so it's believable no matter how crazy-imaginative.

Well, she did this alright, but something went wrong while writing the series--fame and fortune, perhaps, though the cracks may have long already been there. But it's also possible she didn't have the (right) people to bounce off ideas with. If she was ever aware of her weakness in not being a good world-builder, she could've gotten herself an editor who'd help her in this field, but maybe she didn't want to share the credit, I don't know. But Harry Potter was in desperate need of world-building, and it was sadly restricted to focusing on only what happens on Hogwarts grounds. And at the same time, Hogwarts has its own lore that also didn't get the proper attention it needed. It's a good setting that feels like it could be a functioning school, but it almost always felt like it had a life of its own, in some way. Hogwarts, really and truly, is the centerpiece of the story--because without Hogwarts, there's nothing for the characters to do. So why couldn't Hogwarts get that rightful recognition?

Maybe this is why she allowed fans to run wild with their fan fics, though this is something she should've already fleshed out before it got out of her hands. Unfortunately instead, Rowling has to waste everyone's times with "expanding" on long-established characters when there's a bigger world out there to explore, not helped she's been pandering to a small selection of her readers who already were having issues with the books themselves (or the average Harry Potter fan is literally consisting of windowlickers or just plain autism--:powerlevel:though I don't have the heart to say that to my mother's face when she still likes the books after all these years and has sperged about them:powerlevel. "Don't fix what ain't broke" and all that good jazz, but I guess Rowling missed the memo or thought it didn't apply to her. Fantastic Beasts is a step in the right direction, it just should've been made a long time ago.

And I've mentioned it before, but it bears repeating that if Rowling was a true author who really and truly cares about her work, she wouldn't be fucking apologizing annually for killing off characters or making stupid statements expressing "regrets" about who ended up marrying who. If this was going to be such a huge problem with her later down the road, she should've had the foresight to "correct" it during production, not after.

Sorry for the wall of :autism:, I'm just honestly peeved that I have to have an on-going fight with myself to whether-or-not pass these books on to my children thanks to Rowling's bullshit.

 

[HanSolo]

Don't forget the One Cock Ring to rule them all

MTV and Jack Black didn't forget.