Girl Talk on Yik Yak | i love harry potter. it gave me a piece of magic in my childhood and i adored the stories and characters, they gave me an escape. but i fucking despise j.k. rowling. i feel super conflicted bc i hate supporting her but harry potter was so meaningful to me

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i love harry potter. it gave me a piece of magic in my childhood and i adored the stories and characters, they gave me an escape. but i fucking despise j.k. rowling. i feel super conflicted bc i hate supporting her but harry potter was so meaningful to me

Anonymous 6w

as a trans woman, imo it’s perfectly fine to still enjoy harry potter. definitely would avoid financial support-buy the books used, etc. i’m still a fan tbh

Anonymous 6w

You're already saying that Harry Potter *was* meaningful to you, you're already putting up that separation between how you felt about it as a child versus how you feel now knowing all the shit that JK Rowling does. We tend to cling onto things from our childhood as a reminder of an innocent past. We encase these things behind glass, beyond reproach

Anonymous 6w

I’m glad you’re actually aware of the harm she causes and recognise it. Secondhand, homemade. As long as she’s not being supported and enabled, she can’t do as much harm.

Anonymous

#2 6w

But we see the hate, the harm. The tangible, the money that she makes off of IP rights and residuals are actively being used in the UK to strip trans people of their rights. Right now. She revels in it. It's why she wants to remake the movies into a tv show because all of the original actors fucking hate her

Anonymous

#2 6w

There comes a time where we have to weigh these things, whether our implicit support for something (and someone) so horrible actually outweighs the sliver of nostalgia we derive from it. I don't think it's a very fair comparison. It's okay to acknowledge that this story no longer serves its purpose as it once did for you, and it's okay to let it go