Do you like Harry Potter?

I’m a Harry Potter fan. I currently am collecting all of the sets that can be connected to each other to form the Castle. All I’m missing are Sirius’s Escape, Hospital Wing, the Room of Requirement (the newest set), and the Flying Lesson. Not too concerned over Missing the two promo sets or Flying Lesson and I have collected a few other HP sets for more characters. Eventually I plan on adding a few of the Lego Mario enemy builds in the Castle just for fun. I really want to display the Goomba figure that is looking up with the Sorting Hat on its head.
 
I guess I kinda like it? I've never seen the movies or read the books but it seems interesting.

although I really do not like JK Rowling at all so I'm kinda torn.
 
I don't. It probably didn't help that were was alot of drama around the books when they first came out when I grew up. However I did attempt to watch on of their movies once because some friends insisted I should really give it a try and that they were so good. They simply just didn't hold me attention. Idk why. It just didn't. The franchise just isn't for me.🤷‍♀️
Now, Lord of the Rings on the other hand... I like.
 
I’m a huge potterhead, anyone who meets me knows that. I’ve got tons of Harry Potter merch and do various things to celebrate May 2nd and September 1st. And as I’ve said in other threads, I’m a Ravenclaw with a hedgehog patronus who prefers the books to the movies.

It’s kind of funny, because I used to hate the series. I read Sorcerer’s Stone when I was 7 in about three days, and the image of Quirrel becoming Voldemort gave me nightmares. From that point on, any talk of Harry Potter was forbidden in my house. (The one exception was when my fourth grade hallway was turned into a mini Hogwarts for the storybook parade and everyone had to participate) It wasn’t until I was eleven, ironically, when my parents decided I needed to be interested in something popular and put on SS/PS one night that I became obsessed.

I wish I could find something to recreate the joy 11-year-old me felt watching that for the first time. I’m one of those people a lot of you know who talks about how great the series is because of my good experiences with it. The series overall, and the people I’ve met from liking it, have helped me through some rough years, and I don’t think I’ll be able to forget that.

And now the erumpent (or elephant) in the room, JKR. I don’t agree with her comments about trans people, and I don’t like her changing certain things that contradict canon (*cough cough,* Cursed Child, *cough*), but she doesn’t bother me enough to think less of the series. I like the art, and it doesn’t matter how I feel about the artist.

tl;dr: I really like Harry Potter and have a many great experiences with it, but I don’t like JKR.
 
Franny said:
Oh dear. This is not a good look.

JK Rowling absolutely meant what she posted because she still campaigns against transgender people today. Also, lest we forget, she has no problems portraying racist stereotypes in her books. Cho Chang? Shacklebolt? The goblin bankers???

I can absolutely hate the person who made Harry Potter because she hates me. She hates my friends. She actively supports taking away our rights and doesn't view us as human. JK Rowling is a terrible person. I understand you like Harry Potter but JK Rowling is a very very bad person and doesn't deserve to be defended. I hope you don't share the same viewpoints that she does.

I don't care if she made the biggest book series in the world. She's a bad, bad person. Period.
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Well everyone is allowed an opinion - I just ignore the hate for JK Rowling
 
Sophie23 said:
Well everyone is allowed an opinion - I just ignore the hate for JK Rowling
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you're allowed an opinion and people are allowed to tell you you're straight up wrong. rowling shares transphobic rhetoric every other time she tweets, is openly close friends with other open transphobes including policy makers, and financially supports anti-trans movements. rita skeeter is literally a negative caricature of a trans woman, and jo wrote another (non-hp) book where the villain is a predatory trans woman. it's all laid out on the table.

i never liked the harry potter series as it is - the writing is juvenile, the way she handles plotholes is just embarrassing, and she can't write villains to save her life - but now as an adult the antisemitism, fatphobia, and racism are so blatant i genuinely don't know how anyone without nostalgia goggles can call it enjoyable. the woman describes every single bad person as fat and ugly like she's fourteen and you're telling me these books are good? lol
 
I'm a fan of Harry Potter, but it takes a backseat behind a lot of the things I absolutely love.

I really enjoyed the books and movies, and I've been dabbling in Hogwarts Legacy, but I'm not a fanatic compared to how I am with other things like Pokemon and Animal Crossing.
 
Problematic comments from J.K. Rowling aside, I could never get into the books. The majority of the sentences in the novels felt overly long. Fantasy doesn’t do much for me either. I tend to find the genre dull and uninteresting. I watched the first movie as a kid and thought it was okay, but not for me.
 
I’m not too torn here with the J.K. Rowling debacle since I’m not even a fan of Harry Potter. I remember trying to read one of the books as a child but it couldn’t hold my attention. I can imagine myself having a hard time supporting the franchise if the creator is that openly transphobic, so I’m happy that I wasn’t able to get into it. Books (and movies) in general don’t hold my attention. I prefer experience over imagination.

Frankly, I think disliking a certain franchise because the creator is transphobic, homophobic, or whatever is absolutely okay. I personally could no longer support something if the creator of that thing didn’t like me as a person. I thought it was just me being petty or overly sensitive, but I’m seeing that some others feel this way, as well. It’s refreshing for me to see. I thought I was the only one.
 
I never really cared about the series. I've read one of the books and watched a couple movies but just could never get into it like what felt like every other kid did. Just not my thing. I am glad now though because of the author being a steaming pile of garbage, it would have ruined it for me.
 
Quite frankly, no. I never got on the hype train for it, so I kinda missed the trip. I have watched all the movies, and the first three were pretty good. The remainder of them were very average though. I've never read the books as it isn't something that can hold my attention. Quite honestly, J K Rowling has destroyed any hope on me actually liking the Harry Potter series.
 
Harry Potter has been a special interest of mine for over a decade, I grew up with it and I probably know more about Harry Potter than I do about any other topic. That said, JK Rowling being terrible has taken a lot of the fun out of it for me. I haven't reread the books or rewatched the movies in a few years even though I used to do that nearly every year. It used to be a dream of mine to travel to the US and visit Harry Potter World, now I have no desire to go. A few years ago, an official Harry Potter game where you get to create your own character and go to Hogwarts would have been my absolute dream, now I'm not even remotely tempted to buy it. I pretty much exclusively engage with Harry Potter through queer content creators, usually trans themselves, who are very openly opposed to JKR. I am much more critical of Harry Potter than I used to be.

I will always love it in a way, but the way I feel about or engage with Harry Potter will never be the same as it used to be, and that's okay because trans people, fat people, BIPOC people and Jewish people are more important than a fantasy wizard series or giving a millionaire neolib transphobe more money.
 
Oh yes I grew up with it and I was soooo sad when I turned 12 and didn't get my letter to Hogwarts lol
 
I wouldn’t say that I’m a huge fan of Harry Potter, but I like it! 😊
 
i do not. i’ve never read the books or watched the movies, and i honestly have no interest in doing so— the furthest my interest in it has gone is taking the quiz that tells you what hogwarts house you’re in lol. i’m also not a fan of j.k. rowling as a person, so i don’t really want to support anything that she’s made.
 
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