What. An. Idiot.

Welcome to my HP blog. JKR is a TERF so fuck her. TERFS do not interact.

[cryptotheism]

Knowing that JK Rowling agonizes over every individual mean tweet ever sent to her is amazing. I feel strangely at peace knowing she is currently trapped in a hell of her own making.

[desinteresse]

If cancel culture worked jk rowling would be living in a cardboard box right now but she aint 

[baixueagain]

People keep searching for ways to argue that JK Rowling has always been a horrible person deep down as a way of explaining her recent behaviour.

But here’s the thing: that’s probably not true at all.

Pretending it is discounts the harsher, scarier truth: that even decent, well-meaning people can be radicalised by dangerous, hateful, predatory groups, and given enough time they can become truly hideous versions of their former selves.

It can happen to me. It can happen to you. It can happen to any of us, given the right mix of circumstances. And over the past few years, we’ve seen it happen to one of the most famous children’s authors of our age.

Nobody is immune.

[agender-thanos]

So you’re saying that The Clown wasn’t always… outright evil?

[the-angry-ship-deactivated20220]

No one is born evil

[agender-thanos]

Well…

Good point, but prejudice is best installed at a young age. Why is why I assumed the said Clown was just evil since some early part of their life.

[baixueagain]

What I’m saying is that JKR, like so many average people, very likely started off in a place of well-meaning ignorance. Then she started exploring new and different ideas being shared online. Some ideas resonated deeply with her experiences as an abuse survivor, so she began exploring them deeper. Then, wham, public backlash. Her trauma is triggered - but so is her curiosity. After all, if something she did or said set people off, maybe she’s onto something. So she starts exploring more. Starts asking more questions. And when she does this in public, there is always backlash. Meanwhile, however, in private, her new friends are telling her “See? This is proof we’re right. This is proof that the world wants us silenced, because they’re scared of the truth, and they really hate women that much.” And what do you know, what they’re telling her starts sounding more and more reasonable, especially since the outside world is becoming more and more hostile.

And round and round it goes, until you have a radical.

[fierceawakening]

This is absolutely how radicalization works. I started out “I could never be a feminist, they hate kinksters” (yes, this was a massive oversimplification) and within, oh, i think two years? i was saying “well, i don’t like the overtones of ‘radical feminist’ but what’s so wrong with saying you’re a radical AND a feminist? we need to make sure there’s space for traumatized women who really do legitimately hate and fear men.” When you become an extremist, you become UNRECOGNIZABLE even to YOURSELF.

[filthyjanuary]

#also JKR is just the most famous and most heinous case#there are MANY MANY young people being indoctrinated with the same ideals within the circles they found safety and community in#i do not care that JKR has been radicalised; i am far more worried about people not recognising the radicalising process#and how it invades queer and women’s communties to deliberately and actively create harmful environments#as disappointing and gross as JKR is; it’s#it’s important to recognise that radical ideologies (be they alt-right racism or TERFdom) are spread (via @wondersmith-and-sons​)

[wondersmith-and-sons]

There is also this….revisionist tendency to say that JKR has always been a closet bigot and conservative and right-wing since she got famous, but that’s not even entirely true. One of her first major political stirrups was criticising Tory austerity measures and David Cameron, (she also once said “people who send their children to boarding schools seem to feel that I’m on their side. I’m not.”), donating to Labour and being openly supportive of the British welfare state. She has, in at least one interview (from 2000) self-proclaimed to be left-wing. As early as 2003, she claimed that one of her biggest writing influences was a Jessica Mitford, who Rowling described as a “self-taught socialist”. 

This isn’t to apologise for her behaviour or rehabilitate her into some former activist who is still worthy of saving; it’s to contextualise her recent descent into TERFdom compared to her previous political stances she’s openly held. She was probably never going to be a staunch ally for equality and diversity, and yes, a lot of the HP series were very problematic in retrospect, but she could very easily have gone the other way and at the very least turned out to be less of a bigoted shitbag she is now. The fact that her politics in late 2000′s/early 2010′s were similar to so many people who are now activists and organisers for queer, BIPOC and vulnerable communities should tell us to be all the more careful about radfem ideology and transphobia in progressive spaces. 

It’s comforting to say “we should have known in hindsight that she was always going to become a TERF, the early signs were all there!” but that’s also not true. We have to recognise that the toxic ideology, the active harm she chooses to participate in, was a deliberate choice; this was a path she chose to go down, not one that was pre-determined for her. It’s also an easy way to separate ourselves from being critical of radfem influence; “JKR was always a right-wing bigot and that’s why she became indoctrinated with radfem bullshit. I’m not a right-wing bigot, therefore unlike her, I will never fall for radfem bullshit.” 

People who become radicalised, including those to become radfems, were not always irredeemable right-winger proto-Conservatives doomed for extremism and hatred, and that’s the point. The revisionist idea that she was always beyond salvaging erases how TERFs recruit people (especially vulnerable, impressionable people) in queer, progressive and liberal circles and how easily their dogwhistles can go undetected. The idea that JKR was already a closet right-winger from the get-go and therefore could never have been a good person is ultimately unhelpful because all it does it separate from the reality of how radfem doctrine spreads. TERFs sell their own toxic, harmful views packaged as progressive ideas as part of their strategy and that’s why their ideology is dangerous and requires constant vigilance to drive out. 

[kyraneko]

A key factor of radicalization is being offered a sort of moral authority—the ability to judge and condemn other people, to attack them and have it be proof of your virtue, to be the expert and to get to dismiss all dissent with “they’re wrong, misguided, stupid, and possibly evil.” This is a fucking drug. This feels GOOD. This is a heroin hit of acceptance, power, and righteousness, and it’ll hit a suffering person like a personal blessing from God, and especially if they’re lacking good, real, valuable psychological support and emotional engagement in their life, they’ll crave a continual supply of it. And for that, they’ll keep returning to the source, who will not only provide them with more of it but also promise them better things to come once they’ve purged the world of what they hate.

[goodsprings]

i’ve been sitting here for like 5 minutes trying to think of a caption but i absolutely cannot think of anything funnier than this collection of images

[lesbianrey]

my brother my brother and me

[slopaganda]

harry potter is so funny they really just categorized 11-yr-olds as either jocks, nerds, betas, or ethnonationalists 

[6balls]

if you think showing ur kids harry potter will radicalize them u are wrong and u should just instead watch a bug’s life and chicken run. there are gays in there, even. no not “canonically,” shut up, i’m old and in my day we simply UNDERSTOOD when a chicken was a lesbian or a stick bug was a gay man with the telepathic connection between our massive gay brains like the baby geniuses. i took a benadryl

[sistersblack]

that line from gof that describes the malfoys’ tent lives in my head rent free because it’s essentially 

lucius, on his way to commit war crimes at the quidditch world cup: can’t forget my peacocks 

[sistersblack]

Halfway up the field stood an extravagant confection of striped silk like a miniature palace, with several live peacocks tethered at the entrance.

like it doesn’t say it’s the malfoys’ but who else would this belong to

[deifiliaa]

“ and when she at last came out, her eyes were dry. ” (cho chang + the princess bride)

[asw4ng]

[kyloren]

Snow was swirling against the icy windows once more; Christmas was approaching fast. Hagrid had already single-handedly delivered the usual twelve Christmas trees for the Great Hall; garlands of holly and tinsel had been twisted around the banisters of the stairs; everlasting candles glowed from inside the helmets of suits of armour and great bunches of mistletoe had been hung at intervals along the corridors.

HOGWARTS + winter & christmas aesthetic 🎄❄️☃️🎁

[draconisxmalfoy]

Harry Potter Meme (2/4) Wardrobes The Yule Ball held to celebrate Christmas and the Triwizard Tournament presented an opportunity for the Costume Department to create a more formal style of wizard wear. Costume Designer, Jany Temime designed over 300 costumes for the Yule Ball which required over 100 extra costume staff to help create. Creating Hermione’s iconic Yule Ball gown proved to be a daunting task for Temime. Taking three months to created, the final dress was made of yards of pink silk and 12 metres of chiffon, layered to form a beautiful, romantic gown. A kind of ‘Wizard’s Tuxedo’ was created for the Hogwarts boys in a satin silk while the Durmstrang students had military dress uniforms. Ron Weasley was the only exception with robes made from an old carpet fabric and acres of lace!

[dogdiggitycedricdiggory]

ahh an oldie but a goodie ✨

[kyloren]

#harry potter series in a nutshell

[taliasburns]

I fight like a girl

[legend-unicorns-blog]

[dramionefeltson]

littlemissdorkette:

This, all of this, is such a rarity and I’m so happy that we get to be part of it.

[priceforrottenjudgement]

I dont want to ever hear jiggy rowling speak again. She has made her priorities ABUNDANDLY clear.

Her Tweets over the last months were either promoting shit that makes her even richer or attacking trans women. Like, multiple huge crises were going on and she didnt tweet ONCE, but she had time to defend a woman who was fired for transphobia and had time to defend her own transphobia. DURING pride month. DURING the corona crisis. DURING the blm Protests.

Fuck you jk rowling. Please think carefully before continuing to contribute to this woman's wealth.

[lazy-cat-corner]

Rowling: Stand up to injustices and question authority!

Harry Potter Fandom: [stands up to Rowlings injustices and questions her authority]

Rowling: Now, you listen here you defiant little shits-