Please tell me that the majority of Scottish people don't want to be associated the Happy Potter IP and Joanne in general?
A lot of Harry Potter tourist traps have shut up shop. There's unfortunately one near me in Falkirk that's probably one of the more well-known ones.
I feel like folk have tried to retroactively make Harry Potter into an IP closely related to Scotland but beyond using the Highlands, I never felt like the series was remotely Scottish when I read it growing up. None of the main characters are Scottish, and I think Cho Chang (A genuinely awful and incorrect name) is the only actress with a Scottish accent in the films.
Most folk are pretty aware that JKR is holed up in her mansion and rumour has it she spends most of her days utterly fucking miserable, although doesn't take much of a genius to work that out based on her twitter obsession.
Turns out when you write a story with predominantly English characters from English towns who attend an English schooling system and then set the whole thing randomly in the Scottish Highlands, everyone gets confused and settles on Edinburgh as the 'palatably Scottish' hotspot for book-based tourism. Which is how you get walking tours of amazing sights such as "Doesn't this winding road remind you a bit of Diagon Alley? 👀" and "Apparently she wrote a bit of it in this cafe! Paninis are £12"
But given that Jobert Kalbraith is also interfering in Scots' right to roam throughout their own country it's safe to say she's never thought of Scotland as much more than an empty playground to act out her own little model of an ideal civilised society.
