[ SECRET POST #6969 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6969 ⌋

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Comments

[(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!