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Re-evaluating J.K. Rowling through Harry Potter
So, Harry Potter was a hyperfixation in my youth, and I was even in line for books 5, 6, and 7 to come out.
I locked myself inside my room and read the 7th book as fast as I could to not be spoiled.
It was, a bit weird. Unexpected. I didn’t think she’d kill off any of the main three, but I wondered what would be used to kill Voldemort. He was supposedly going to kill harry potter, or die trying after all.
It stuck with me for years, I have a very detailed memory so I don’t need to rewatch movies or reread books for years at a time.
I most identified with Luna Lovegood as a favorite character.
I went back to it after I saw JK Rowling said autism was dangerous. Specifically reducing her fear that trans men are not in their right mind, due to having autism were incapable of a conscious choice to transition.
I don’t use twitter, or X, whatever so I learned second or thirdhand that JK Rowling was transphobic and antisemitic (which it appears she is given the depiction of goblins and tieing them to cultural stereotypes subjected on Jewish People). However, no one had mentioned the Autism aspect to me.
That there were people, like myself, that had no ‘right to agency’ because of not being in ‘the right mind’
