I think at some point I must have removed JKR and Harry Potter from my news feed, because I had to go looking for the offending tweet, and...ugh. Well. I can't say I'm surprised.
(I hate it, because I grew up loving Harry, identifying with Hermione, and wanting to throw the nearest heavy object at Ron while simultaneously being desperate for him to be my best friend too, and I don't want to like something associated with the opinions JKR evidently holds. I am also intrigued by some of the threads left trailing in the Fantastic Beasts films, like where Modesty Barebones went. But. But.)
Hands up, I admit that I too have been a clueless Brit about some of the things you raise - but then again I try not to burden the internet with opinions about things I know I don't understand well.
Tangent, but I also really dislike that Harry Potter has gone from being a magical world that existed in children's heads, to an excuse to make money out of places that had nothing at all to do with the HP franchise. "This random place in Britain is kind of pretty and looks like it might be part of Hogsmeade. Gift shop!" Great, you pushed out three established local family businesses. Well done.
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(I hate it, because I grew up loving Harry, identifying with Hermione, and wanting to throw the nearest heavy object at Ron while simultaneously being desperate for him to be my best friend too, and I don't want to like something associated with the opinions JKR evidently holds. I am also intrigued by some of the threads left trailing in the Fantastic Beasts films, like where Modesty Barebones went. But. But.)
Hands up, I admit that I too have been a clueless Brit about some of the things you raise - but then again I try not to burden the internet with opinions about things I know I don't understand well.
Tangent, but I also really dislike that Harry Potter has gone from being a magical world that existed in children's heads, to an excuse to make money out of places that had nothing at all to do with the HP franchise. "This random place in Britain is kind of pretty and looks like it might be part of Hogsmeade. Gift shop!" Great, you pushed out three established local family businesses. Well done.