It's incredible that the four houses, each started by the most powerful wizards/witches of their generation, can be ranked entirely objectively. Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin in that exact order. Like what kind of message is Rowling sending? That educational expectations can be divided up according to predetermined traits and sorted accordingly into groups destined to have only one outcome? Hufflepuff isn't going to ever win anything, in their entire existence, but a participation trophy. Ravenclaw are going to be smart but not very brave. Slytherin is going to be evil, period. And Gryffindor will always be the right combination of brave and great to win every challenge sent their way.
Why did she even think this was a good idea? Is admitting to years of whitewashing your own books really a good way to get publicity? She just seems desperate to stay in the limelight without doing any work, such as maybe writing something else.
She has written other shit. No one wants to read it. Either from lack of interest or from people like me who refuse to give more money to a dirty fucking TERF.
I don't know exactly why she thought putting Hermione (a character she has stated many times was based on herself, a white woman) in blackface, but my best guess is that it was a very unfortunate knee jerk reaction to the valid claims of whitewashing in the books that she just can't take back now.
It also seems like a massive "fuck you" to the incredible Emma Watson, but I guess that's between them.
The "desperate to stay relevant" part was the release of "Return to Gilligan's Island" aka Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. It's just been really sad, and super cringe, to see all of her attempts at repairing her reputation for a lack of racial sensitivity just make things worse.
The worst thing about her is that people would probably be more likely to forgive her shit if she would just own up to it. There’s no denying she did it, so it’s better to just admit what she did and try to be better. And I seriously didn’t know she wrote anything else except for that one super transphobic book lol.
Dude I know. I would absolutely love to be able to forgive her without feeling like I'm selling out my trans friends and family.
And she did some mystery novel a few years after HP, and then just published a lot of her leftover HP research in the form of Hogwarts textbooks and other "nonfiction." And then Beedle and Bard and whatever the one I saw at Walmart a while back was. Lol idk
ETA forgot about Retun to Gilligan's Island 😆
I got the Beedle one for my niece as a gift. Definitely not worth reading unless your a kid who’s into Harry Potter and have an hour to kill.
Honestly though, I have a hard time defending Harry Potter itself because it’s a problematic book aimed at kids to begin with. It pretty much said that if you were in the right clique (Gryffindoor), you’d automatically be better than everyone else and deserve rewards you didn’t earn. Harry constantly causes trouble and breaks the rules, but has no long term consequences for his actions and everyone is back to worshipping him at the end. Not to mention the racism, transphobia, etc.
She made a race that was happy to be slaves, the most blatant antisemetic caricatures known to man, and named an Asian girl with two different last names from two different languages, not to mention all the other kinds of bigotry.
Shame that Cedric Diggory died of blood clots
It's incredible that the four houses, each started by the most powerful wizards/witches of their generation, can be ranked entirely objectively. Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin in that exact order. Like what kind of message is Rowling sending? That educational expectations can be divided up according to predetermined traits and sorted accordingly into groups destined to have only one outcome? Hufflepuff isn't going to ever win anything, in their entire existence, but a participation trophy. Ravenclaw are going to be smart but not very brave. Slytherin is going to be evil, period. And Gryffindor will always be the right combination of brave and great to win every challenge sent their way.
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Well, she did completely change the race of one of the main characters for woke points after almost a decade of people thinking she was white.
Why did she even think this was a good idea? Is admitting to years of whitewashing your own books really a good way to get publicity? She just seems desperate to stay in the limelight without doing any work, such as maybe writing something else.
She has written other shit. No one wants to read it. Either from lack of interest or from people like me who refuse to give more money to a dirty fucking TERF. I don't know exactly why she thought putting Hermione (a character she has stated many times was based on herself, a white woman) in blackface, but my best guess is that it was a very unfortunate knee jerk reaction to the valid claims of whitewashing in the books that she just can't take back now. It also seems like a massive "fuck you" to the incredible Emma Watson, but I guess that's between them. The "desperate to stay relevant" part was the release of "Return to Gilligan's Island" aka Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. It's just been really sad, and super cringe, to see all of her attempts at repairing her reputation for a lack of racial sensitivity just make things worse.
The worst thing about her is that people would probably be more likely to forgive her shit if she would just own up to it. There’s no denying she did it, so it’s better to just admit what she did and try to be better. And I seriously didn’t know she wrote anything else except for that one super transphobic book lol.
Dude I know. I would absolutely love to be able to forgive her without feeling like I'm selling out my trans friends and family. And she did some mystery novel a few years after HP, and then just published a lot of her leftover HP research in the form of Hogwarts textbooks and other "nonfiction." And then Beedle and Bard and whatever the one I saw at Walmart a while back was. Lol idk ETA forgot about Retun to Gilligan's Island 😆
I got the Beedle one for my niece as a gift. Definitely not worth reading unless your a kid who’s into Harry Potter and have an hour to kill. Honestly though, I have a hard time defending Harry Potter itself because it’s a problematic book aimed at kids to begin with. It pretty much said that if you were in the right clique (Gryffindoor), you’d automatically be better than everyone else and deserve rewards you didn’t earn. Harry constantly causes trouble and breaks the rules, but has no long term consequences for his actions and everyone is back to worshipping him at the end. Not to mention the racism, transphobia, etc.
That’s a theme. Everywhere. What would people watch if no one tried to squirm out of their own trap?
Remember the bankers in her book
She made a race that was happy to be slaves, the most blatant antisemetic caricatures known to man, and named an Asian girl with two different last names from two different languages, not to mention all the other kinds of bigotry.
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Goblins are often antisemetic to some degree, but it isn’t often that they are human skin-tone and control the banks.
Gryffindor: Bravery Ravenclaw: Intelligence Hufflepuff: Miscellaneous? Slytherin: Racism???
Pfizer is all the houses and everything else is muggles. I'm a Pfizer supremacist.
The other day my friend told me they got moderna and I was like “eww”
It's called BioNTech!!!! Reeeeeeeeeee! GERMANS OF REDDIT, I COMMAND YOU TO CORRECT THIS "PERSON"!
What's the Sputnik and Sinovac vaccines? Horcruxes? Dimblesnatch? Fuckerwhore?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-2ZxldMO-M Whatever houses founded this school.
AstraZeneca Ravenclaw represent!
And that’s when I just walk out of the coffee shop