"it only takes one desperate generation to change history - even erase it. One generation to change the text. One generation chooses to teach that text. The next grows, and the lie becomes history”

Really makes one reflect on our own history. What happened and what is even happening today. I mean It's literally what Hitler did and tried to spread, what Putin is also doing right now to his own country to justify his genocide.

But it also reminds me of certain ignorant rich people with big platforms who spread misinformation cough JK Rowling cough, who for instance denies events that happened during the holocaust.

It’s dangerous because she’s such an influential person because of her success with HP. How people can blindly follow her because HP was such a huge part of them and don’t want to imagine their beloved author to be as terrible as she is. Meaning “she must be right” because her books were genius so she must have a point. Then blindly believe all her ridiculous misinformation she spreads and yeah it just feels like we’re starting to go backwards..

For those who don't know, she's one of Harry's concurrents in Goblet of Fire. She's a student of Beauxbatons, the French school, and she has two character traits : Being beautiful and being a bit mean. Basically, she's useless in the book, always being overshadowed by Diggory, Krum and Harry.

During her first appearance, Hermione, of course, is implied to get jealous of her because every boy, including Harry and Ron, find her gorgeous (friendly reminder that Hermione is Joanne's self-insert, which is really telling in hindsight). She's also depicted as a bit oversensitive and annoying - she cries and thanks Harry for saving her little sister during the second task, not knowing that the "hostages" weren't actually in danger - which is fucked up that the champions aren't supposed to know this by the way !

She's also depicted as mean and condescending to Ron, coldly rejecting him when he tried to ask her out. In Half-Blood Prince, all the important female characters (Hermione, Ginny, Mrs Weasley) hate her, because she's too beautiful and feminine, while Harry and Ron are so dumb that they can't understand why they'd hate her (I'm not saying that Fleur is hateable, but that Hermione and the others are clearly jealous).

Ironically, it's very Rowling-esque to have female characters hate and being envious of each other (Rowling strikes me as the type of woman who, during the witch hunts, would have denounced other women for petty reasons).

Concretely, my feelings for Fleur Delacour can be described as : "You hate her because she's beautiful and feminine, I don't like her because I find her a little snotty. We are not the same, Joanne"

I largely ignored her and her views during her early transphobia days (her discourse back then wasn't entirely out of character of what your average Gen X' er or boomer would say; at the very least in my country).

But now? She just goes out of her way to insult trans ppl over every little thing and dehumanize them. She crossed any line of decency when she engaged in Holocaust denial over those trans book burnings by the Nazis.

I hope that she will one day come to see the error of her ways, apologize, and erase all of her social media.

She’d have to direct a transformers movie. She hates the central premise as she says “a truck can’t become a robot” as “trans is bad”. She also has to cast Hunter Schaffer as the main character as well.

I've noticed that her tweets have become constant again. The only other time when they've been close to this constant was leading up to the UK election. Leading up to the UK election, her tweets became more and more relentless and then died down again after the election. Now, she seems glued to her keyboard.

I'm pretty sure she has spoken against Trump in the past. But, I honestly don't trust her. Of course she has to speak against the rapist candidate to maintain her image as a feminist.

What do you think? Is she genuinely against Trump? Or is she full of crap like she always is?

As a former Harry Potter fan, I'd like to do something like this because it would be cathartic for me (and for many ex-fans here as well I guess). You can make any headcanon you want, as long as it would spite Miss Holocaust Denial.

I begin :

- The saga that we know is actually Ministry propaganda that they use to justify their oppression. This is why the status quo stays the same at the end, and why the nonhumans are mostly depicted as conforming to the stereotypes one way or another. The Ministry also depicts the house-elves as having alien morals that allow them to love slavery to manipulate people into thinking that slavery is okay. By using characters such as Fudge or Umbridge, they can pretend that every problem from the Ministry comes from individuals and not the system itself.

- The first Minister of Magic actually created an artefact that makes most of the Wizarding World more callous and stupid (and thus easier to control). That's why so many people don't give a shit about abolishing slavery in Harry Potter. He also secretly created an Horcrux to be able to live forever because he was such a control freak that he'd have to watch over the wizarding society forever. I imagine his Horcrux to be the entire building of the Ministry, which means that you'd have to destroy it to kill him, symbolically destroying the pro-slavery dystopia.

- Dolores Umbridge actually escaped from Azkaban and went into hiding in the Muggle world. She chose the name "Robert Galbraith" as her new identity

I know many former fans already said similar things on this sub before, but I still wanted to make a post dedicated to it.

To give you an idea, besides my family, JK Rowling was the person I respected the most. She was everything I dreamed to be : A kind-hearted, thoughtful, feminist writer who fought against bigotry. I literally considered her as close to saintly (not a saint, but close enough). I thought she was an extremely intelligent author as well, who planned out every detail in her series (or at least like 90% of these details).

I think that what hurts me the most is that she didn't believe what she wrote - or rather that she only meant to talk about the wizarding world when she criticized blood purity, and that any connections fans made to real-life instances of bigotry were unintentional. That, and the fact that she's so sarcastic and contemptuous of just about anything that doesn't fit in her worldview - and how she's going out of her way to attack people with like 30 followers.

My idol, an author that I dreamed to meet one day, turned out to be an unhinged, stubborn bigot who condones her far-right friends, is proudly ignorant of History when it comes to LGBT people and let hatred define her entire personality.

I'm only talking about my own experience here, but I'm sure there's former fans who felt the same as me.

A while back, I was watching a clip of Django: Unchained where they introduced Calvin Candie, and thought about the details on what made that scene with the Mandingo Fight so tense and eerie. For the clip: https://youtu.be/XNE5Bi0ktVQ?si=IhTTIz5zHJHY85lM . Anyways, when also looking at how the whole House Elf system is pretty much slave apologia, it gave me a horrifying thought: The Wizards do the same, but with House Elves. For my reasoning as to why:

- In real life, while it's not out of possibility that Antebellum masters had their slaves fight each other, there obviously wasn't any this organized or like in the film, due to it not being the financially viable (and abolitonists can use it to justify their anti-slavery points). However, the Wizarding World does not follow logic. And also, by technical logic, because we see how Wizards can do most stuff without servants thanks to magic, it's possible that they wouldn't be losing much with making House Elves fight to the death.

- This is the Wizarding World. They still use slave systems, their legal system is pretty bad, date rape is seen as a silly, innocent prank, and systematic bigotry is quite open and implemented. There is no doubt that they would also go down to this kind of stuff, especially since they are "old-fashioned" in a bad way.

- House Elves have a whole indoctrination where they apparently love working for their masters, and fighting to the death to them would be a way of proving that "love". This also would prevent them from trying to use it as means to escape.

- Because of how small the Elves are, it wouldn't be hard for Wizards to set up pits for fighting. For an idea, think of it like how they have dog fights like in White Fang, or even cockfights, but replace domestic animals with Elves. And if magic is involved in the fighting, wizards are also able to just have their own enchantments or magic forcefields to keep it all in the arena.

- And with magic, it would be quite easy for Wizards to heal their badly injured Elves who won fights, and would be able to continue this awful practice.

While this could be an interesting story element to analyze, I am honestly glad that Rowling did not have something like this in the story, because of how bad she would screw it up (bonus points if she'd try to compare it to Pokemon for a defense, and missing the whole point). Anyways, that is all of my thoughts from the darkest part of my imagination. What are your thoughts on this?

Like the moral panic against gay people, it'll be no more socially acceptable to hate on trans people sooner or later. No moral panic ever lasted long. What will Joanne do when this happens ?

Personally, I believe that she'd either try to gaslight people into thinking that she never meant to harm trans people, or her ego will stop her from doing anything besides doubling down. In either case, she'll become irrelevant - her Harry Potter's author days are long gone, and her "queen of TERFs" days will be gone as well.

What do you think ?

While Elon Musk is no saint, he has even told Joanne to go touch grass, implying even he is fed up of her nontsense.

In theory, could it be possible where enough people report Joanne’s account to get her blocked or alternatively sign an online petition to have her removed, and that if she’s not removed by such a date everyone who signs the petition will do a Twitter(X) boycott, thus giving Twitter a financial incentive to block her?

Especially if advocates like Emma Watson and Daniel Radcliffe publicly signed it, and it was phrased in such a way to boycott Twitter until its algorithms automatically delete hate speech and block repeat offenders

I'm just curious. We all know that Jojo hates trans people and she's cruel towards nonbinary people too, but did she attack bi people yet or is she still too cowardly to talk shit about "LGB people" ?

On a side note: What do you think a DW adaptation of HP would be/look like hypothetically?

If it gets to the point where her outspokenness is actually putting the brand future in jeopardy.

Harry Potter is a big earner. Her kids and grandkids will never have to work a day of their lives and can live in luxury off the proceeds if it stays that way.

That all comes crashing down if it becomes a forgotten - or worse, widely disliked - IP.

Whether or not people in her family agree with her views privately, at some point, this kind of public behavior is going to come to a hard stop once people around her make clear to her that it's not just her personal livelihood that's under threat here if she keeps going.

I've seen many people on this sub saying that she looked genuinely mentally ill (or that she acted as if she was), as well as people arguing that we shouldn't blame her horrid behavior on a mental illness. Honestly, her behavior does seem..erratic at best (a post on this sub showed a letter she wrote to a bully once, and her handwriting was terrible ; her tweets are increasingly more unhinged, like when she wrote "Oh Joanne, why can't you, Joanne, stop standing for, Joanne, women's rights, Joanne" because she was furious at people calling her by her name...)

Personally, I think that, while her transphobia didn't start off as a genuine mental illness, it degenerated into one because of how obsessed she was - nowadays, it could be considered a mental illness with how brain-rotted she is. In other words, the answer to the question "is she mentally ill" is both yes and no.

(I feel bad for the mold who has to stay in the same room as her)

She claims that she's motivated by her "struggling against people who want to steal women's rights", yet she goes out of her way to mock people that were not dangerous for her rights in the slightest - for instance, she mocked a nonbinary person recently because they were celebrating their pronouns. How does she justify it to herself ? I genuinely want to know what kind of mental gymnastic she does to think "bullying a nonbinary person is the same thing as standing up for women". She rants about how she only hates people who threatens women, but we don't even need to point how the flaws in her lies, since she goes full mask-off immediately after !

To this day, I don't know whether she genuinely deluded herself into thinking that she stands up for women, or if she hides behind that filmsy excuse. Or both.

What do you think ?