Hogwarts Legacy Isn’t Even A Real Harry Potter Game And You Still Can’t Give It Up

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Imagine I’m being held hostage, with a knife at my throat, a gun to my chest, and a slightly damp sock ready to be slid onto my foot. These particularly cruel kidnappers tell me they’ll let me go on one condition: I have to say one nice thing about JK Rowling. I gulp, look down at the wet, grey sock, the slow, gloopy drip sliding down the toe, and stare my kidnappers dead in the eye: “She writes good characters.”

I know that you do not, under any circumstances, ‘gotta hand it to her’, but I gotta hand it to her - Rowling writes characters well. Many of those who defend Rowling’s transphobia, or at least don’t consider it a dealbreaker, aren’t actively transphobic. They were on the Harry Potter train before Rowling revealed that side of herself, and now the Hogwarts Express has arrived at bigotville, they don’t want to get off. That still makes them passively transphobic, but they aren’t engrossed in the world of Hogwarts or desperate to buy the Harry Potter game because of JK Rowling - for many of them, it’s despite her. Oh, and before the ‘HoW iS sHe EvEn TrAnSpHoBiC’ crowd pipe up with their deliberate ignorance, you should probably read this, and this, and the sources contained within them, and of course then continue to ignore them.

Related: Stop Putting Down JK Rowling And Start Lifting Up Trans PeopleIn any case, people are Harry Potter fans for more than the transphobia, and that’s because Rowling writes good characters. Her follow-up novels to Harry Potter have not necessarily proven her consistency, but within Harry Potter itself she struck gold and kept on digging. They’re not the most original (the blank everyman, the smart and bossy girl, the dim but brave sidekick), but they are excellent executions of old