I remember one time someone tried to compare JKR and Rick Riordan to me and claimed that Rick is also writing representation for publicity but they are literally in no way comparable?? Like?
Never shows Dumbledore as explicitly gay as canon
Falsely claimed that Hermione had never been described as white even though she had
Gave Cho Chang, a Chinese character, a name made of two Korean surnames
Took South Asian mythology and cast an East Asian woman to play the character, who is literally a pet snake to wizard hitler and whose hobby is to obey her master
When asked if Charlie is gay, responded ‘no, Dumbledore’s gay’
Made Queenie, a Jewish woman, side with the other wizard hitler
Compared lycanthropy to the HIV/AIDS epidemic and made one werewolf go around biting children
Signed off on Cursed Child. Enough said about that
Made a super side character Jewish in a tweet
Had Dumbledore repeatedly send Harry back to people he knew were abusing him
Literally made the series so his son with ADHD and dyslexia could feel represented
Makes a major character in PJO gay and gives him a boyfriend in canon
Addressed abusive and neglectful parents without having people enabling said parents
Wrote a load of main characters that are canonically POC (Hazel, Piper, Frank, Alex, Leo, Grover, Carter, Sadie, Sam, etc.)
Has a relationship between a homeless guy and a mixed-race genderfluid trans girl
Wrote a deaf elf character and a male dwarf who loves fashion
Wrote about internalised homophobia and heternormativity
Has a hijabi Muslim main character
The main characters in Kane Chronicles are mixed race and talk about how people assume that Sadie isn’t related to Carter because she’s white-passing
Apollo is canonically bisexual and is the POV character in ToA
Used his popularity to help publish a book about Hindu folklore written by a Filipina/Indian woman so his fanbase would be able to read an accurate representation of the lore
Maybe Rick’s representation isn’t perfect all the time, but at least he used his platform to try to give as much canon representation as he can and in a way that children can understand, instead of just tweeting about it and refusing to put it in his books
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