Hi everyone I hope you're all well so author of juggernaut magic realism books
franchise JK Rowling has unfortunately made herself the butt of an internet
joke in the decade or so since that devastating day when the final Harry
Potter book was released
Rowling has drawn a number of raised eyebrows with the retrospective editions
she's made to the popular franchise in large part because the nature of those
additions is decidedly woke it all started in 2007 when she revealed during
a Q&A that Albus Dumbledore headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and
Wizardry was in fact gay and had a love affair with the evil Dark Wizard
Grindelwald who he notably defeated in a duel in the early 20th century since
then she's come out with a number of similar little nuggets
along with elaborating here and there on Dumbledore's alleged sexuality she
implied that Hermione who was played by Emma Watson in the film series could
have been black this was in response to criticism she copped after the casting
of a black actress to play Hermione in the franchise spin-off Harry Potter and
the cursed child in the original West End production canon brown eyes frizzy
hair and very clever white skin was never specified Rowling loves black
Hermione this was all well and good until one savvy Internet user pointed
this out
she's also responded to a number of fans over the years who have questioned the
work nosov her books to everyone asking whether their religion / belief / non
belief system is represented at Hogwarts the only people I never imagined there
are Wiccans she followed that up with a response to a fan who asked her whether
there were any LGBTQ students at Hogwarts but of course if Harry Potter
has taught us anything it's that no one should live in a closet which is of
course a reference to the fact that Harry spent his formative years living
in the cupboard under the stairs in the home of his repugnant aunt and uncle she
also revealed that there were in fact Jewish students at Hogwarts citing one
Anthony Goldstein ravenclaw who was part of the original 40 students that started
school with Harry now these woke takes have drawn some
criticism over the years largely because people suspect she may be doing it to
score brownie points with the intersectionality brigade as a kind of
Maricopa for the fact that there isn't a queer lesbian trans non-binary person
who identifies as an attack helicopter in the books however her most recent
revelation has people decidedly up in arms in an interview recorded in the DVD
and blue-ray editions of fantastic beasts the crimes of Grindelwald Rowling
states this about the relationship between Dumbledore and Grindelwald their
relationship was very intense it was passionate and it was a love
relationship but as happens in any relationship gay or straight or whatever
label we want to put on it one never knows really what the other person is
feeling you can't know you can believe you know
so I'm less interested in the sexual side though I believe there is a sexual
dimension to this relationship then I am in the sense of the emotions they felt
for each other which ultimately is the most fascinating
thing about all human relationships these prim but somewhat salacious
references to kinky relations between these wizards have caused quite a range
of reactions from the merely interested to the truly outrage that Dumbledore
seems to be gay everywhere except in the books and movies and of course the
internet game has been outstanding
wait just one more thing what is it guess um guess which character is
actually gay what'd I say guess which character there's the game I don't know
all of them okay so there are two ways you can look at this scenario I for one
can perfectly understand why LGBT activists are a tad ticked off in their
eyes she's written a closeted character who was lonely and unaccepting of his
homosexuality which is a cultural trope they have been fighting against for a
long time after all writing an entire series of books with zero reference to
Dumbledore sexuality and then suddenly dropping it into the public eye like
some sort of virtuous afterthought presumably to appease the proverbial
gays is really quite patronizing as stated by Richard Morgan in the Sydney
Morning Herald if Rowling thinks in a fantasy world of
magic and possibility and Polyjuice potion and metaphor Maji that Easter egg
in a character as ex post facto closeted it is in any way helpful to anyone
wondering what to do with gay thoughts and gave feelings she's wrong
Dumbledore's pep talk on love rings as hollow as gays who strike thirsty no
hate poses and cheer hashtag love wins but then also decry fats films and black
guys on their dating profiles all hookup apps Twitter had quite a bit to say
about it as well I'm sick of Rowling and her half-assed
inclusivity it doesn't count if she's telling us after the fact that's not
being an ally that's trying to get brownie points
she loses nothing this way put it in the text or don't talk about it at all
same thing with Hermione's race well as an intense homosexual and a fan of her
books I've quite had it with JK Rowling piggybacking on lgbtq+ book because it's
trendy to do so now when she wasn't prepared to make the sacrifices and
fight at a time when it wasn't so easy stop milking money off our rainbow the
second way of looking at it however is to decry these LGBT activists for their
entitlement and unforgiving nature JK Rowling is a known Raging Lefty she
despises Donald Trump with an unimaginable hatred she's a remainer
however I don't think she's one of those malicious ill-intentioned regressive
thugs remember before she wrote Harry Potter Rowling was about as poor as you
can be in the UK without homeless as such I think she suffers
from a bit of survivor's guilt I mean she took herself off the Forbes
billionaire list because of the amount she gave to charity she's a good person
she's not just some virtue signaling celebrity so I think she's got so wound
up in work culture that she's desperately trying to do the right thing
by everyone because she feels bad and also because she lives in that bubble
she's been tricked into believing that the world of Twitter and The Guardian is
an accurate reflection of what the general public actually thinks hence her
eagerness to be woke as such this storm of disapproval from the work could be
put down to the insatiable nature of social justice warriors and of course
the tendency of the left to eat their own if they put even a pinky toe out of
line so perhaps because they are so wound up
in this crazy self obsession with identity they think a piece of film or
literature or whatever is only worth its weight if it represents every identity
and if it doesn't it's either immoral or there's something wrong with it it's the
same mindset of the people who were annoyed with Bohemian Rhapsody because
they thought it wasn't gay enough simply by virtue of the fact that Freddie
Mercury's sexuality wasn't front and center 100% of the time the nature of
social justice warriors is that they depend on malcontents and perceived
injustice in order to actually exist with any purpose if they thought
everything was fine and that nobody was underrepresented or oppressed they would
have nothing to do which is why they keep finding new and progressively nice
things to complain about they also hate other people's success so having a go at
the author of one of the most successful franchises of all time who is
tentatively raising her hand as a so-called Ally is their idea of heaven
however what everyone including JK Rowling it appears seems to have
forgotten here is one small but very important thing context
first off the books are actually set in the 90s the attack on God Rotolo when
lily and James Potter Harry's parents book tragically killed by Lord Voldemort
took place in 1981 when Harry was about 15 months old the story proper begins
about 10 years later around Harry's 11th birthday and continues for the next
seven years so the last book was set in 1998 we hadn't even hit y2k yet
considering that there is no way Dumbledore would have been an outwardly
gay man teaching at a high school particularly one of his advanced years
also the story is set at high school and begins when the kids are 10 and 11 years
old sexuality isn't even mentioned until about the fourth book when they're
picking dates for the Yule Ball which is about right in the development of
teenagers as such it would be highly unlikely that you'd have even one let
alone multiple LGBTQ students before the age of about seventeen especially at a
school as small as Hogwarts also the focus of the books is plot /
relationships I mean these are kids trying to save the world and not die in
between getting an education sexuality and relationships play a very secondary
role this is not Gossip Girl also we're talking about teenagers here maybe they
hadn't realized they would get yet or didn't feel comfortable coming out I
mean remember it was the 90s as for there being no out adults in the books
well why on earth would adults be talking about their sexuality
heterosexual homosexual or otherwise with children and teenagers I mean most
of them are teenagers or adult authority figures it would be totally contextually
inappropriate and let's be real while the LGBT community may be very visible
nowadays in pop culture they actually make up a very very small percentage of
the population so given the smallest of the Wizarding World statistically it's
unlikely they would have actually been enough LGBT people within the scope of
characters to form any kind of representative clique all in all can we
please please just learn to accept stories within the context they were
written in it is this obsession with rewriting history to make it more modern
or inclusive or whatever but it doesn't change
anything and it's an example of how if you view the world solely through the
prism of identity politics you will ruin literally everything because you will
never be satisfied there will always be something wrong team woke can never be
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