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Please don’t support the terrible Rowling
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Solo la 🌍 salva a la 🌎

@Noortjevee
The only things JKR brought to the table were cruel interconnects between the much better sources she stole from, plus lawyers.

When I read the first HP book, I thought it was a fanfic homage to the Worst Witch series or maybe Chrestomanci series. Or Books of Magic for the protagonist. Or Agatha Christie for plot. Nope. Complete rip-off.

OK, time to watch some Worst Witch! Or Owl House!

A pretty good summary of the wherefroms and examples:

elftor.medium.com/harry-potter…

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The Books of Abarat is a young adult fantasy series by Clive Barker, set in a magical archipelago of 25 islands, each representing an hour of the day, with a planned five books, of which three have been published: Abarat (2002), Days of Magic, Nights of War (2004), and Absolute Midnight (2011).
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@Noortjevee @jakebrake I think he got his magic rules a lot more consistent. JKR had so many inconsistencies. They can do a reparo, for instance, to fix broken glasses, but poor witches/wizards have patched or ratty robes? They all seem to take the train, in a muggle train station, to Hogwarts, but there are magic folk who don't know what muggles dress like?
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@CStamp @jakebrake
the whole
"...and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives."

(had to google the words)

Was kinda intresting to me.

but the cop out of the deathly hallows, and then the goddamn expeliarmus deflect bullshit, so they could go "no no...HArry never killed him, voldemort kinda killed himself"

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Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen

to be fair that's probably incorrect. I would guess that there's a nucleus of Warner Brothers (and other) corporate executives hoping that this remake will put enough shine back into the Rowling brand that they can squeeze another couple of decades of money from it. I wouldn't be surprised if "a new generation of children" has been invoked in corporate boardrooms, as the purported beneficiaries of flogging Harry Potter back into service for a new TV show.
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Andreas Zieritz

I don't agree.

The Harry Potter books were definitively the best reading experience I've ever had in my life.

I've read all of the books to my kids as well, and I wouldn't miss a minute of that wonderful time.

There is some much magic and wisdom in those books, and the prophecies of the hard times we are in at the moment.

I am here to protect her and willing to cast every spell I know with the exception of one of the forbidden ones.

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@anthrazit that series already had so many problematic themes, but also, Rowling is such a cruel, anti-feminist, transphobic, bigot, that I don't understand how anyone can still support her work in any way that puts money in her pocket or spreads her toxic influence.

It's like saying, "Voldemort's policies left something to be desired, but he really brought people together". Except you didn't even acknowledge the first part.

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Morgan ⚧️

@anthrazit I have some follow-up questions.
- do you think I deserve healthcare?
- do you support my right to call my wife a woman?
- do you think people should be allowed to choose what we do with our bodies?
- do you think racism or anti-Semitism are bad?
- do you think women are harmed by a system that enforces strict gender roles and places their value on how well they meet an arbitrary aesthetic standard?

If you answered "yes" to any of these, you might want to rethink your support.

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@dzwiedziu @raphaelmorgan
Actually according to this definition this is something you do, not me.

It is not a blank check to silence opposition: The goal is to protect a tolerant society, not to censor all views deemed unpopular.

I have never excluded someone in this discussion by his/her opinion.

I just defend Rowling's right to have a different one. I don't agree on some of her views, but I defend her right to have a different view.

That is democracy, if you like it or not.

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@anthrazit
Ah, first reply and I got DARVO crossed from my alt-right bingo, and several right-wing talking points.

What you call “unpopular” is in JKKKR's words: transphobia, queerphobia, holocaust denial, financing those views; from her works you can add pro-slavery (Dobby), antisemitic (goblin bankers), (a short list).

So you can defend her “views” and call it a “democracy” or even “marketplace of ideas”, but you're just pro-fash.

Image unrelated.

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Violet Madder

@anthrazit @dzwiedziu @raphaelmorgan
A TOLERANT society, huh?

This isn't about censorship. It's about handing money directly to people who are trying to push a marginalized group out of existence. Forcing trans women to be in mens' prisons, for example, is going to get some of them killed. Do you get that?

advocate.com/news/jk-rowling-a…

J.K. Rowling uses Harry Potter wealth to fund anti-transgender organization

This is where "Harry Potter" profits are going.
Ryan Adamczeski (Advocate.com)
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@trebach @Linux
Proton is problematic due to cooperating with the FBI. Did they resist? Yeah, sure. Could they have resisted a lot more and in more public ways? Definitely.

Plus the owner is allegedly a racist bigoted POS. Proton might shield similarly-minded users, but anyone else, caveat utilitor.

stateofsurveillance.org/news/p…

Proton Mail Handed FBI Data That Unmasked Stop Cop City Protester - State of Surveillance

Privacy-focused email provider Proton gave Swiss authorities payment data that reached the FBI, identifying an anonymous activist. The person was arrested for trespassing. Here's what happened and how to avoid the same trap.
State of Surveillance
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RalfMaximus

Streaming services now use paid services to track how often torrents are downloaded, effectively treating piracy as another viewer metric. Just by torrenting it you're helping boost JKR's numbers. And alas, using a VPN won't change that.

There are many services, but one such tool is Piracymeter.
piracymeter.com/

Piracymeter: Advanced Anti-Piracy Monitoring and Protection for Movies and TV Series

Piracymeter offers rapid, accurate piracy detection for movies and TV series across 100+ countries and 30+ languages.
piracymeter.com
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Hot Dog Water

Does she plan to teach a new generation of kids that only a 'man' and a 'woman' can have a child that they recklessly leave-behind while fighting the specters of their own creation, to be raised by child-slavers and sneaky serpents, who are the only ones that child can trust? And that kid's name is definitely not Jesus?

I admit, I quit watching after the werewolf one and never read them. Did I get it wrong?

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Viral Obscurity

I did enjoy the films on release despite some problematic elements and they certainly don't need to be remade for streaming or otherwise even if you don't consider the problematic author and where the profits will be going

As soon as I saw the transphobic and hate filled ramblings on twitter, it was instant boycott from me for anything by JK Rowling

That's it. She lost my support right there

I wouldn't even bother to download the stuff because potter just needs to be left to die

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