[ SECRET POST #6969 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6969 ⌋

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[fscom]

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[fscom]

I still mentally assign real people and fictional characters to Hogwarts houses.

I would never tell anyone in real life about this.

[(Anonymous)]

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I mean. I don't see how this hurts people?

[(Anonymous)]

It doesn't, but a lot of people will get very touchy if you even think about anything related to HP. And that was before JKR was found in the Epstein files.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah.
Still its not giving her money and getting mad at ppl for this is too close to thoughtcrime vibes for my liking

[(Anonymous)]

Even before she started being openly TERFy, people were shouting 'read another book' at anyone who mentioned Harry Potter. Sometimes I really felt like I was supposed to pretend people who liked HP DIDN'T read other books.

I've seen people say it's wrong to participate in HP fandom, like writing fic, even though JKR doesn't make a cent off of that.

[(Anonymous)]

i mean i think thats more about "it will tell her your approve"

which like maybe but people like that will find reasons anyway And a lot of HP fic i see nowadays has things like disclaimers of "FUCK JKR and her views"

Disclaimers in 2005: PLEASE DON"T SUE ME , mama JKR i am broke ;.;
Disclaimer in 2025: FUCK YOU JKR you miserable mold terf

[(Anonymous)]

Doing it in your head doesn't. It's perfectly normal and harmless for someone who grew up on the books to go back to that worldbuilding, think about it applied to other fandoms etc.

It's bringing it up in a group where people may have been hurt by the groups and policies noted friend-with-literal-fascists JKR hurts that can get thorny. Because, you know... a lot of people have been deeply hurt by the things that she does with her money, while she's palling around with nazis. And keeping her culturally relevant by talking warmly about hp nostalgia adds to the cache she has with which to harm real people. And the nicest thing that someone hurt by her has to say isn't going to be very nice-- at best, 'read another book'.

OP probably doesn't WANT the people they know to criticize their reading habits-- I'm sure OP HAS read other books, but read these particular books during a formative time as a reader if not as a person. And, I'm also sure OP doesn't want to bring up a topic that might hurt someone else's feelings, or make OP seem untrustworthy by association. So, as an ex-hp fan who has been hurt and seen friends suffer material harm based on what the author has done, I think OP is taking the right tack by keeping those thoughts to themself, and I think fandom secrets is a good place to just... let the cat anonymously out of the bag if it's something they're sick of keeping wholly bottled up but don't want to talk about to the people they know.

Like... I get it-- it's easy to say 'well, X children's series is better in this way and that way, and doesn't have the same weight to it in terms of racism, antisemitism, homophobia, transphobia, etc'. But if you grew up reading hp and now you're an adult, and you never read, say, Percy Jackson before... then it's not the same to get into it and it's not the same to sort people into their camp factions. You can't just transfer everything that was meaningful about an old fandom to a new one, even if the last thing you want is to publicly associate yourself with an abhorrent author. And the thoughts you think inside your head aren't harming people!

[(Anonymous)]

I'm actually fine with people consuming and creating HP fan content. I still RP HP characters. But I'd never admit it off anon either.

Fandom needs to embrace death of the author and also make more canon divergent shit. So long as she doesn't get money, it's okay.

[(Anonymous)]

That's not what death of the author means*, and keeping hp culturally relevant DOES mean she is going to get more money. Canon divergence has absolutely no bearing on the matter, either. The more people are out there being into the fandom, the more it is going to seem like a sound business decision to give her more money, to make more shit, that people who don't know how much harm she's doing or the types of people she associates with are going to buy.


*Death of the author has nothing to do with separating the art from the problematic artist. I might say 'I can separate the art from the artist and appreciate that Chinatown is a cinematic masterpiece, regardless of my feelings about Roman Polanski', for instance. Death of the author is to look at a creative work without considering any knowledge I might have about the author's history and biases. That doesn't mean I would not NOTICE that the author clearly hates fat people and unbeautiful women, and doesn't seem to think much of people who aren't white and middle class. It means I would be examining those things separate from any foreknowledge of where the author comes from or how they might have come by those biases.

[(Anonymous)]

Some of my friends who like HP call me a Hufflepuff. Aren't they supposed to be the boring ones? Should I be pissed?

[(Anonymous)]

I'd be pissed if I had friends trying to assign me a hogwarts house even if they didn't assign me 'miscellaneous', tbh.

[tabaqui]

I always thought of the Hufflepuffs as like the hippies of Hogwarts. Laid back, inclusive, happy to just do magic and not crazy-competitive.

[(Anonymous)]

i think they have a negative connotation because the way it's explained is that every other house all has their own specific traits, and then hufflepuff "took the rest" that didn't fit in anywhere else. so not necessarily boring, but nothing to make them stand out compared to their peers

[(Anonymous)]

Hufflepuffs are the INFPs of Hogwarts.

[philstar22]

I have no issues with this. The only things I have issues with are giving her money or supporting her in public.

[(Anonymous)]

I still do that sometimes. I did find that I got more into Zodiac astrology once I began to distance from JKR/HP. I'm better at guessing people's signs now lol