I agree. People thought I was being a hard ass about Hogwarts Legacy, but I wasn't. I can't stop someone from continuing to engage with things that make Rowling stronger but I can sure as hell understand that to them my safety is not a priority.
If you don't stand for something then you stand for nothing, and it's not even just a matter of principle when it's your own life being actively endangered by that fool and her lies. With me I'm just doing it to be supportive. I can in theory walk away. But I'm not going to do that.
What gets me the most are the people who are vaguely aware that Rowling is trash but pretend that doesn't matter so they can have the thing they like. It's a level of cowardice I simply cannot respect.
SAME. 100% SAME. Grow a damn spine! People are being MURDERED! But a stupid video game is more important to you? Seriously?
I am comparing Rowling to Hitler to highlight that the tactics really are the same. I am not meaning to imply the personages are the same because they aren't.
They're both people who spread or are spreading bigotry, so of course there are parallels. Disturbing ones.
Harry uses these things that are forbidden for good reasons and then is just basically fine. Which is both morally bad and bad storytelling.
I can understand that the rest of the wizarding world lets him off the hook (the winners decide what the warcrimes were, after all), but yeah, he definitely shouldn't be at all comfortable with himself after what he did. One of my characters (mistakenly) believes he committed genocide and is so tormented that he voluntarily turns himself in and says he accepts whatever punishment is handed down to him. Harry just goes off and becomes a magical police officer. When the trauma he went through should quite frankly make him ineligible.
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If you don't stand for something then you stand for nothing, and it's not even just a matter of principle when it's your own life being actively endangered by that fool and her lies. With me I'm just doing it to be supportive. I can in theory walk away. But I'm not going to do that.
SAME. 100% SAME. Grow a damn spine! People are being MURDERED! But a stupid video game is more important to you? Seriously?
They're both people who spread or are spreading bigotry, so of course there are parallels. Disturbing ones.
I can understand that the rest of the wizarding world lets him off the hook (the winners decide what the warcrimes were, after all), but yeah, he definitely shouldn't be at all comfortable with himself after what he did. One of my characters (mistakenly) believes he committed genocide and is so tormented that he voluntarily turns himself in and says he accepts whatever punishment is handed down to him. Harry just goes off and becomes a magical police officer. When the trauma he went through should quite frankly make him ineligible.