Swift backlash from 2SLGBTQ+ community over series author J.K. Rowling

Natalie Stechyson · CBC News · Posted: Jul 28, 2026 1:10 PM EDT

  • ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.caEnglish
    176·
    2 days ago

    It’s such a shame. Harry Potter was a great series of books with great stories and characters that many millenials grew up with.

    It’s a shame its author is such a fucking cunt and ruined the whole franchise for everybody.

    • SalamiDommie@lemmus.orgEnglish
      1·
      22 minutes ago

      It is a shame that vocal minority of the fans have become asshats. More millennials support HP than take your extremist stance.

      That is why they keep opening HP stores in major cities and they have hr long waits to get in.

    • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca
      31·
      16 hours ago

      I hope that the Harry Potter series outlives Rowling. Yes, it’s an imperfect series that Rowling’s prejudices seeped into, but there is still a lot of good to be found in it. Eventually, Rowling will die and fans will no longer have to worry about supporting transphobia. Some will still say it’s not okay to like Harry Potter, but I hope most people will be able to embrace the series

    • Ismay@programming.dev
      73·
      23 hours ago

      It was, when we were kids and kinda stupid . It you take 5 mins, it’s a racist and sexist cesspool and the story is pond deep.

      And don’t get me started on jk…

        • Ismay@programming.dev
          1·
          4 hours ago

          I feel they’re mostly better than the books 😐

          Like in the book, Dobby’s funeral are a shame. The less sentimental shit I saw in those books. She really sucks at having any other emotion than hate.

          I won’t even talk about the last one 😂 The first 2-3 were nice for kids.

    • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      172·
      1 day ago

      Hp was loved, by myself, too. But even then, I’m not sure I’d ever thought of hp as great, just “comfortably decent enough”.

      But yeah, jkr is a fucking monster.

      • SalamiDommie@lemmus.orgEnglish
        1·
        20 minutes ago

        I have always felt that she created a more interesting world than the story she told. I don’t mind the HP story, I love hogwarts and the wizarding world

        I also have no issues with JKR and find calling her a “monster” rather ridiculous

    • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world
      53·
      1 day ago

      Trans people existing unharassed and legally able to exist but the characters in this fake story about magic children is really fun.