world’s angriest teen rants about bad franchise. unheard of
you see the thing about harry potter is that it’s a nice idea. you know? the idea of being able to just walk through a wall and leave behind the boring world that you always felt like you weren’t a part of, that’s a nice thought. a cool magical world where you can have your pets at school and you don’t have to see your mean caretakers for a year and school isn’t boring is a very exciting thing for kids to read, i see why it was so popular. obviously, schmay kay schmolling didn’t come up with this (see star wars) but it’s a very easy concept to grab at and make money. it’s just that she never wrote it well. i think any teenage girl with an ounce of a creative bone in their woke body could write harry potter better than Just Kidding did. harry potter suffers from its author’s legacy, sure, yes, but also from, i cannot stress this enough, bad, uncreative, unprofessional, poorly proofread, biased writing.
this shows very obviously through her writing. yes, of course, there’s kingsley shacklebolt (one of the only black characters in the series), and cho chang (one of the only asian characters, also put in the Smart House), but there’s other things that sneak their way in there. the bank tellers are short and greedy goblins with big noses and warts everywhere, the house elves are slaves who are happy being enslaved so long as their masters don’t beat them, rita skeeter is a creepy news reporter who digs into the teenagers love lives and is described as having masculine features. she’s uncreative because she writes some of the most common stereotypes into her plots. not to mention that these names are uncreative, too. pansy parkinson, luna lovegood, salazar slytherin, godric gryffindor, severus snape, all of these names and more are alliterated. this could be fun, i’ll admit, in a whimsical children’s story, and i am just being bitter, but it’s still something to take into account. she is lazy. she writes whole stories, with no mention to any queerness in any character, kills said character, and only then labels them Just Gay to get away with everything else.
she writes most female characters as enemies either to each other or to the main story (aunt petunia is a ‘horse faced’, tall, skinny older woman who hates her nephew and favors her fat son ((she really wants you to remember that she’s ugly and he’s fat)) ; aunt marge is a devilish overweight woman who thinks harry should be beat, and is blown up like a balloon and flown up to the sky ((again, remember, she’s soooo fat and ugly)) ; lavender brown is a crazy girl with a crush on hermione’s man who can’t stand being away from him for a second ; pansy parkinson is a pug faced death eater who’s dating malfoy ; fleur delacor is a devil for *checks notes* … being too pretty.)
to circle back again to laziness, as well as bigotry, i could make a case for it ; jowling kowling rowling’s perfect magical school sorts its students into groups in their first year, isolates them into these groups for the rest of their most formative years, and gives biases to these houses. gryffindor is the good, brave house, so hermione and ron have to be in this house even though they fit the other, less cared about houses more ; slytherin is the evil house so every student in slytherin is evil ; ravenclaw is the smart house ; hufflepuff doesn’t exist.
then, of course, there’s also her suddenly blurting that the werewolves in the series are a metaphor for AIDS, a sexually transmitted infection that cost the lives of hundreds of people, especially around the 80s, and was used as propaganda against the queer community. and of course the only werewolf character was turned by an older man who snuck into his room at night when he was a child and attacked him. because gays are all predators, didn’t you know
severus snape bullies children and calls his childhood crush a slur, he gets a redemption arc because he loved this crush and.. that’s it. also, this slur (mud blood) sounds like something that John Kennedy Rowling has been waiting to call a black person for her entire life.
this series has an entire section at universal studios. this series has made a nazi (look up jkr charlie kirk tweet, and also her whole fucking franchise) over a billion US dollars. this series has allowed this woman to donate 88,000 usd to anti trans organizations. fuck off. give a trans woman 300 dollars. give a black trans woman 500. punch your local bigot in the face as hard as you can. fix your hearts or die happy pride
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