[ SECRET POST #4207 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4207 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Why are people bitching about this? It isn't like Rowling was just "RANDOM THOUGHT!" She was responding to questions from her Jewish followers. Fans ask things and she answers them instead of just ignoring them like an asshole.

[(Anonymous)]

Because she does it all the time and it's ridiculous

[(Anonymous)]

How dare she answer fans. IGNORE THEM DAMNIT!

[(Anonymous)]

It would probably be better to say something like "there probably would have been, and I wish that I had explicitly written some in, even though I didn't"

rather than "they were totally there all along, and I definitely knew they were totally there all along. I didn't bother to write them in, but they were definitely there, everyone in Hogwarts was gay."

[erinptah]

Look, I'm not gonna say Anthony Goldstein was a shining example of complex and fulfilling representation, but he was in the books. It's not like she only thought about it once someone asked and hastily made up a Jewish-sounding name for a character she hadn't written in the first place.

[(Anonymous)]

Sure, I don't disagree with that.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not sure why we assume Rowling should have talked explicitly about the presence of Jewish kids at Hogwarts. Ethnicity aside, I think she was way better off not mentioning anyone's religion at all. It wasn't the story to get into that.

I admit I was a little annoyed when she said there were no Wiccans at Hogwarts. I get she was responding to all the crazy parents accusing the series of Satanism, but c'mon. Rude.

[(Anonymous)]

Exactly. It's probably closer to the truth. But Rowling knows the fans asking won't respond well to the truth.

[(Anonymous)]

Right? Why doesn't she just list every ethnicity on the planet, every gender, every religion, every sexual orientation, and say, "There was at least one of each of these people," and be done with it?

[(Anonymous)]

I like you, anon.

[(Anonymous)]

oh no, the mean author lady answered a young fan's question on twitter. burn her, i say, burn her.

she can't control how people report on it (calling it an "announcement" rather than, y'know, a response to a fan tweet), nor is there really any winning when it comes to the parts of fandom that get very stuck on representation to begin with.

[(Anonymous)]

Wasn't there a kid at Hogwarts named Anthony Goldstein, whose name gets mentioned several times in several of the books? I always assumed he was Jewish. Her confirming that there's a Jewish character, even if she didn't name one in the tweet or whatever, would just as far as I'm concerned be her confirming that that character was officially Jewish.

[(Anonymous)]

That's a fair point! And I don't think this particular instance is especially objectionable, divorced from the broader context of The JKR Twitter Experience.

[(Anonymous)]

iirc, she even mentioned anthony goldstein during the whole thing.

[(Anonymous)]

She did. He was one of the original 40 students she though of.