Can someone ELI5 about why exactly is JKR bad?
She’s a TERF/transphobe who uses her wealth to make life shitty for trans people.
She’s advocated for shit like people to go into bathrooms and take photos of trans women using them.
To clarify for ELI5:
TERF means trans-exclusive radical feminist. They don’t accept that trans women are women and pass laws making their lives worse. Recently notable examples are legal pressure for women to use bathrooms based on gender assigned at birth.
There are a couple reasons (that I know of) why JKR is considered bad by many left wing and liberal people. One is that she is a “trans exclusive radical feminist” or TERF. These are people that are feminist but anti trans, not liked by people pro trans rights. Second is that in Harry Potter there are many instances of racist tropes and/or ‘casual’ or ‘unintended’ racism. Her depiction of goblins has a lot of characteristics from antisemitic stereotypes, greedy, big nose, etc. There are very few POC in the Harry Potter story, and sometimes their implementation seems problematic, i.e. the seemingly only asian character being named Cho Chang. This meme in particular regards the seeming disconnect between the quote cited and her anti trans stance.
Tier 1 - Global household names:
- Hugh Laurie (Dumbledore) - House made him globally iconic
- Dame Shirley Bassey (Celestina Warbeck) - Legendary singer, James Bond themes
- Simon Pegg (Arthur Weasley) - Mission Impossible, Star Trek, Shaun of the Dead
- Kit Harington (Lockhart) - Game of Thrones
- Riz Ahmed (Snape) - Oscar winner, Sound of Metal
Tier 2 - Very well-known internationally: 6. Matthew MacFadyen (Voldemort) - Succession, Pride & Prejudice 7. Mark Addy (Hagrid) - Game of Thrones, The Full Monty 8. Lennie James (Sorting Hat) - The Walking Dead, Snatch 9. Iwan Rheon (Remus Lupin) - Game of Thrones (Ramsay Bolton) 10. Indira Varma (Petunia) - Game of Thrones, various prestige TV 11. Michelle Gomez (McGonagall) - Doctor Who’s Missy, Sabrina
Tier 3 - Well-known, especially in UK: 12. Matt Berry (Sir Cadogan) - What We Do in the Shadows, IT Crowd 13. Gemma Whelan (Sprout) - Game of Thrones (Yara) 14. Stephen Mangan (Nearly Headless Nick) - Episodes, Green Wing 15. Daniel Mays (Dobby) - Strong British film/TV presence 16. Cush Jumbo (Narrator) - The Good Wife/Fight 17. Jeremy Swift (Vernon) - Ted Lasso 18. Sacha Dhawan (Quirrell) - Doctor Who’s Master 19. Adeel Akhtar (Filch) - Four Lions, Sherwood 20. Sope Dirisu (Sirius Black) - Gangs of London, rising star
Tier 4 - Recognized character actors: 21. Blake Harrison (Pettigrew) - The Inbetweeners 22. Joel Fry (Charlie Weasley) - Cruella, Game of Thrones 23. Miles Jupp (Fudge) - British comedy mainstay 24. Nina Wadia (Molly Weasley) - EastEnders, Goodness Gracious Me 25. Saoirse-Monica Jackson (Trelawney) - Derry Girls 26. Megan Richards (Moaning Myrtle) - Rings of Power
Like how the Wizarding World left her behind. I’m playing Hogwarts Legacy (set 100 years before Philosopher’s Stone) and every time I see or hear about a gay couple or a trans character, I imagine JKR hates it and hates us enjoying the best of her world without her bigotry. Ironically her reaction to the game is probably similar to how the alt right reacted to her books when they were new.
I also like how one of your first friends is a Slytherin and the Slytherins aren’t all one dimensional fascist bastards like they were in the books and movies. They’re just a little more ambitious than the rest, like how my Ravenclaw witch is just a little more curious.
I doubt she hates the gay people, tbh. Her whole trans hatred feela very rooted in self hate and it’s kinda sad how she chose the path of being an insufferable piece of shit. There was an interview where she said she should’ve been born a boy. She probably hates being a woman and instead of realizing that that’s how transwomen feel about being amab, she thinks it means no one can possibly want to be a woman unless they want to creep on women or whatever the terf narrative is.
I imagine JKR hates it
She’s crying all the way to bank, and from the pulpit the popularity “Wizarding World” gives her. /s
Yeah, she’s like the richest private citizen or the richest private female citizen in the United Kingdom. No amount of hate is going to change that. She’s getting paid from the interest. If we could take her money because we don’t like her, we wouldn’t, because it would be used on us instead. Let her have her money, it won’t ever buy back all the goodwill she’s pissed away.
And I don’t know how popular she is these days… the people she’s sucking up to are the same people who wanted her books banned 20 years ago. What even is her angle, anyway? She taught a generation of kids to stand up for themselves and each other and to explore their potential while being attacked by the alt right, but now that she’s made her money, she’s joining them? It doesn’t make any sense. The left doesn’t like her because she’s anti-trans and the right doesn’t like her because she made Harry Potter.
Her money is being used against us now. Also the right is happy to embrace any rich person who embraces hatred regardless of past actions.
Past actions?
She’s always been like this.
The only asian character in her books is effectively named ching chong.
She thinks you buying and playing the game means you agree with her views.
Yaarrrrrr
Ahoy matey of culture.
I don’t think so, the devs made sure to make the game inclusive in many ways that she disagrees with. But I do think no one should buy the game as it gives her money, it’s like buying from a brand owned by nestle. All she sees is money to give to people who support her disgusting and pathetic views and it doesn’t matter if whatever thing that’s based on her creation tries to go against those views. And it doesn’t matter if that thing directly pays her, it will help continue the popularity of that thing so she ends up with more money anyway.
She’s publicly said she takes people purchasing Harry Potter merch as support for her views.
She thinks a lot of things I disagree with. I don’t put much stock in what she thinks. If you do, that’s your business, but it’s got nothing to do with me.
They used to say if you read Harry Potter you worshiped the devil. As an Atheist, I never put much stock in that. I, of course, did not worship the devil at any point, before or after reading the books and/or movies. Playing a game with LGBTQ+ characters and having people assume I share the view of bigots, and I’ve been a lifelong ally, makes even less sense to me.
Also, the game’s been given away and sold for deep discounts (something like 90% off). It’s assumed it’s to get people playing so they pay attention to a sequel announcement.
What she thinks, not the problem. What she spends her Hogwarts licencing dollars is. She literally bankrolled the lawyers that got Gender Recognition Certificates made useless by enforcing a definition of woman that excludes trans women in the UK Supreme court. She did this to the tune of about seven hundred thousand pounds sterling personally out of pocket.
She spends her dosh on fighting to literally change laws that attack trans people’s ability to exist in public and funds the defense of bigots who got fired or reprimanded at their workplaces for harassment of trans coworkers.
This stopped being about her being a troll about four years ago. The reason people say not to buy her shit these days is because of what she’s doing with the money.
You’re missing out!
I advise all people to place confidence in the glory and might of Satan.
I wasn’t casting shade on you, just repeating what Jo has said publicly, that she views Harry Potter merchandise sales as a tacit endorsement of her views. It’s always worth considering the views of the creator when consuming media, informed consumer and all that. But yes I’ve gotten the game free myself and also pirated it.
That’s fair. I also have a Hermione (I forget which year) Pop figure because I always liked the character.
I think it’s funny that J.K. Rowling considers Hermione to be the self-insert character. She’s a bit more like Draco or the Slytherin house and their leanings toward purebloods, with regards to her opinions on trans women.
I never liked how she did the Houses. Gryffindor good, Slytherin evil, and the other two don’t matter. I never got that. How I would have done it, Harry would still be Gryffindor, Ron would be Hufflepuff, Hermione Ravenclaw, and Draco Slytherin, but they’d all be friends, with different goals, and would have to work together in various pairings/trios/all four of them to solve problems relating to each of the four Houses. She set up a good system but then sold it short. My character is basically a more ambitious Hermione, so she’s a Ravenclaw. She’s a bit naive at first, but her thirst for power makes her almost seem Slytherin, and she uses dark magic. But only on evil. Like all information is good to know, it’s the application of it that determines the ethics and morality.
I don’t much mind shade, I get plenty of it at work. I make some of my own shade, but I also make light, by the same token or analogy. Even if you were casting shade, that would be your choice. It’s my choice whether I dwell in it or “shine”. It’s not a great example. We all throw a little shade at things we don’t like and it’s hard to avoid it sometimes. I just try to have fun, even if some of the people involved in that fun aren’t such good people, if that makes any sense. The TL;DR is, “you’re good.”
It all comes down to Harry Potter being kids books largely and most of the world building and themes don’t hold up to real scrutiny.
100% fuck all these voice actors for remaking HP, AND supporting that fucking cunt
FUVK ROWLING
FUCK POTTER
BURN HER FUCKING CASTLE TO THE FUCKING GROUND
The voices of Harry Potter: The Full-Cast Audio Editions
Narrated by
Cush Jumbo OBE
Starring:
The golden trio
Frankie Treadaway as Harry Potter
Max Lester as Ron Weasley
Arabella Stanton as Hermione GrangerYou-Know-Who
Matthew MacFadyen as Voldemort
Hogwarts Headteacher
Hugh Laurie as Albus Dumbledore
Gerard McDermott as Armando DippetHogwarts teachers
Riz Ahmed as Severus Snape
Sacha Dhawan as Quirinus Quirrell
Michelle Gomez as Minerva McGonagall
Kit Harington as Gilderoy Lockhart
Saoirse-Monica Jackson as Sybill Trelawney
Tracy Ann Oberman as Rolanda Hooch
Fergus Rattigan as Filius Flitwick
David Troughton as Professor Binns
Gemma Whelan as Pomona SproutHogwarts staff
Mark Addy as Rubeus Hagrid
Adeel Akhtar as Argus Filch
Yasmin Mwanza as Irma Pince
Rebecca Root as Poppy PomfreyThe Marauders
Anthony J Abraham as Young Sirius Black
Sope Dirisu as Sirius Black
Blake Harrison as Peter Pettigrew
Iwan Rheon as Remus Lupin
Richard Stranks as Young Remus Lupin
Rory Toms as Young Peter PettigrewThe Potters
Tia Bannon as Lily Potter
Tom Glenister as James PotterThe Weasleys
Bumble Clarke as Ginny Weasley
Joel Fry as Charlie Weasley
Hamish Lloyd Barnes as Fred & George Weasley
Simon Pegg as Arthur Weasley
Tom Royal as Percy Weasley
Nina Wadia as Molly WeasleyThe Malfoys
Jude Farrant as Draco Malfoy
Alex Hassel as Lucius MalfoyThe Dursleys
Jaiden Dosanjh as Dudley Dursley
Jeremy Swift as Vernon Dursley
Indira Varma as Petunia DursleyHogwarts students
Gryffindor
Grace Barkley as Alicia Spinnet
Bertie Caplan as Colin Creevey
Lennon Che Doyle as Seamus Finnigan
Patrick Davies as Young Rubeus Hagrid
Marley Rae Hunt as Angelina Johnson
Ruby-May Martinwood as Lavender Brown
Scarlett May-Carter as Katie Bell
Joseph Obasohan as Lee Jordan
Dray Oli as Dean Thomas
Mitchell Robertson as Oliver Wood
Jake Sigsworth as Neville Longbottom
Sasha Watson-Lobo as Parvati PatilSlytherin
Dougie Brownwood as Vincent Crabbe
Oscar Brudenall-Jones as Tom Riddle Jr
Aaron Garland as Marcus Flint
Heaven Harriott as Pansy Parkinson
Oscar Hubble as Gregory GoyleHufflepuff
Tiffany Banyong as Hannah Abbot
Samuel Hallybone as Jutin Finch-Fletchley
Harvey Marshall as Ernie MacMillanRavenclaw
Lisa He as Cho Chang
Scarlett May-Carter as Penelope ClearwaterOther Hogwarts students
Patch Dillon as Transfiguration Student 3 & Dark Arts Student 2
Edward Frowde as Quidditch Spectator Student 2
Grace Hatch as Ravenclaw Girl
Caoimhe Judd as Great Hall Student 2
Mia Lee as Gryffindor Fifth Year & Great Hall Student 1
Lucia Lewis as Student Outside Class 1 & Quidditch Spectator Student 3
Ash Noble Stein as Whispering Student 1, Departing Student 1 & Gryffindor Common Room Student 3
Myah Palmer as Gryffindor Common Room Student 4 & Student Outside Class 2
Austen Phelen as Quidditch Spectator Student 1
Archie Phillips as Great Hall Student 3
Maya Shepelev as Dark Arts Student 3
Maxim Simaitis as Departing Student 2, Gryffindor Common Room Student 1 & Transfiguration Student 1
Zane Squirrell as Sorting Student 1 & Quidditch Spectator Student 4
Harry Tuffin as Gryffindor Common Room Student 2
Poppy Wilson as Sorting Student 2, Whispering Student 2 & Transfiguration Student 2Hogwarts ghosts
Finbar Lynch as The Fat Friar
Stephen Mangan as Nearly Headless Nick
Nigel Pilkington as Peeves
Megan Richards as Moaning MyrtleHogwarts artefacts
Matt Berry as Sir Cadogan
Lennie James as The Sorting Hat
Sarah Whitehouse as The Fat LadyMinistry of Magic
Margaret Cabourn-Smith as Mafalda Hopkirk
Miles Jupp as Cornelius FudgeDiagon Alley
David Ahmad as Mr Borgin
Celia de Wolff as Madam Malkin
Gene Foad as Tom the Leaky Cauldron Landlord
Hugh Ross as Garrick OllivanderHogsmeade
Nadia Albina as Madam Rosmerta
The Knight Bus
David Holmes as Stan Shunpike
Paul J Smith as Ernie PrangWitches and wizards
Named
Rachel Atkins as Augusta Longbottom & Madam Z Nettles
Tia Bannon as Doris Crockford
Dame Shirley Bassey as Celestina Warbeck
Margaret Cabourn-Smith as Hogwarts Express Trolley Witch
Lousie Jameson as Bathilda Bagshot
Carl Prekopp as Bozo, the Daily Prophet Photographer
Adam Samuel-Bal as Walden MacNair & Warlock D.J. Prod
Andrew James Spooner as Dedalus DiggleUnnamed
David Ahmad as Wizard in Street 2
Ewan Bailey as Square Jaw Wizard
Nicholas Boulton as Flourish & Blotts Employee
Doc Butler as Tiny wizard aboard the Knight Bus
Ian Conningham as Wizard in Street 1
Patch Dillon as Broomstick Boy
Pete Gold as Wizard in Alley 1
Kiran Landa as Woman in Honeydukes
Gerard McDermott as Old Committee Member
Claire Morgan as Woman outside an Apothecary & Aged Witch
Sule Rimi as Wizard in Alley 2
Andrew James Spooner as Manager of Flourish & Blotts
Zane Squirrell as Boy in Shop
Lizzie Stables as Magical Menagerie WitchMagical beings
House-elves
Daniel Mays as DobbyAcromatula
Phillip Arditti as Aragog
Andrew James Spooner as Spider 1
Paul J Smith as Spider 2Basilisk
Ewan Bailey as The BasiliskCentaurs
Tom Alexander as Ronan
Damian Lynch as Firenze
Carl Prekopp as Bane & SnakeDwarf
Ian Conningham as Valentines Day DwarfGhosts
Ian Conningham as Sir Patrick Delaney-Podmore
Gene Foad as Knight at the Deathday Party
Finbar Lynch as Portly GhostGnomes
Nigel Pilkington as GnomeGoblins
Ewan Bailey as Goblin 1
Doc Butler as Griphook
Nigel Pilkington as Gringotts SpokesgoblinMagical objects
Phillip Arditti as Book about Nicholas Flamel & Diner 2
James Forbes as Wall
Mat Fraser as Doors & Card
David Holt as Potions Textbook
Louise Jameson as Document
Chris Lew Kum Hoi as The Daily Prophet
Damian Lynch as Marauder’s Map
Nigel Pilkington as Mirror in the Leaky Cauldron
Carl Prekopp as Sign
Danusia Samal as Notice
Paul J Smith as Letter
Dan Starkey as Chess Pieces & Banner
Rufus Wright as List & Diner 1Muggles
Nicholas Boulton as Ted the News Reader
Laurence Bouvard as Hotel Owner
Edward Frowde as Piers Polkiss & Whispering Student 3
David Holt as Train Announcement
Lousie Jameson as Aunt Marge
Gerard McDermott as Zookeeper
Adam Samuel-Bal as Jim McGuffin the Weatherman
Dan Starkey as Train GuardAdditional voices
Tom Alexander
Ajjaz Awad
Ffion Bambury
Oliver Brady
Lydia Brownell
Mollie Casserley
Gabriel Clapson
Ian Conningham
Amy Cudden
Jessica Dennis
Patch Dillon
Gian-Luca Di Corrado
Dylan Ennis
Jason Forbes
Sarah Golding
Pete Gold
Mia Haynes-French
Sebastian Halford
Oscar Hubble
Sidney Jackson
Twinkle Jaiswal
Caoimhe Judd
Simon Kane
Harriet Kershaw
Max Mackintosh
Fiz Marcus
Debra Michaels
Liis Mikk
Claire Morgan
Yasmin Mwanza
Iris Moss
Harry Myers
Muireann Ni Fhaogain
Evan Ovenell
Catherine Phillips
Austen Phelen
John Sackville Maya Shepelev
Jayesh Sidpra
Ravi Sidpra
Betsy Pearl Smedley
Andrew James Spooner
Sam Stafford
Brianna Squirrel
Harry Tuffin
Jo Troy
Harriet Turnball
Riya Vyas
Poppy Wilson
Sarah Whitehousewhen was this recorded?
Currently.
The series releases one book per month from November 2025 to May 2026.
