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A fictional elf whose species is kept enslaved by the end of the series because being annoying is worse than chattel slavery

however even the Roman coin is of greater value than the fictional grave of a horrible little fictional elf

Disney adults too. And by "Disney," I mean everything Disney owns like Star Wars and Marvel, not just princesses and cute animals.

Agreed and agreed

there used to be good people there. Then Joanne went off in la la land, so anyone with a brain left the fandom. Now all that's left is the creeps.

“Oh yeah, my entire life revolves around a poorly written children’s book written by a transphobe who would name an Italian character spaghetti Darigatoni that came out like 25 years ago” - a significant percent of the population apparently

There are several nerd-o-sphere influencer women who occasionally let slip that they love going to Universal for HP land.

The irony is that many kids who felt like outcasts because they were queer (or otherwise “different”) related to the secret magical world the Potter books described and bonded with others around that fandom. Then JKR made trans hate her entire personality and ruined it all.

If you were older than about 12 when the Harry Potter books were coming out, they weren't going to do much for you. If you were born after 2005, you had other series options. But they were hugely important for people born between ~1990 and ~2000.

Thank you for putting my thoughts into words. I'd seen the books around, knew that adults were reading them as much as kids, had seen them on trains, planes, in cafés, even in the crowd at Sydney Olympics. Raced through the first one before I took the kids to first film. Etc. Now she can GAGF.

I can easily believe that RPN is meant as a form of magic spell.

Oh I imagine the angry tree takes over

Im both surprised and not surptised at all that people wil continue to see threads like this and still chime-in in the comments to say, "I totally agree. They way I engage with it is fine, though :)" They just cannot get "stop" to pierce their skull and resirect it into juat being embarassing online

I’m a Harry Potter adult. I am very very anti JKR though.

Why do they have to remember 9/11? A baby born the day the towers fell would be almost 25 now.

actively participating in society does imply the responsibility of at least some baseline level of cultural awareness of major issues facing it, and "J. K. Rowling is a fascist monster fanatically and monomaniacally dedicated to a genocidal effort against trans people" qualifies

I was your classic Harry Potter kid. Super into it, all the kids in my class reading it, each book release felt like this big massive event, then every film release. We’d listen to the audio books on holiday car rides. I punched a friend for spoiling one of the books. (He didn’t hold it against me)

Coincidentally, was thinking about this today in the context of my step-daughter, who's about to start HS, and AFAIK, knows nothing about how awful Rowling is. It's complicated! She generally likes HP, takes the stupid quizzes about 'what HP house are you in', etc. 1/4

What even is "Harry Potter adult?" Is liking the movies/books enough or do you have to be on the level of active cosplay to be considered one? Disclaimer: I am neither, just curious what is the current level of discourse.

Maybe I am too soft-hearted to bully them, what else can I do? Suggesting Discworld maybe? Would that count as bullying HP fans? Oh, oh, maybe I could suggest Morrowind to them, is that bullying? :3

my own relationship with Harry Potter is, I think, bog-standard for a median-age millennial: I enjoyed the books just fine when I was an actual child, and I retained fairly pleasant memories about them until it was revealed that JK Rowling is a repulsive person

Old fart here. I remember reading the first two or three books as my kids were just learning to read at the point they were published I thought.” these are badly written Agatha Christie murder in the country estate mysteries”. But my kids liked them they actually read them and so I’ll grant

Just the fact theyre into something that at its core requires sorting people into desirable and undesirable groups says something about them

If their creator hadn’t become a threat to the lives and livelihoods of others I’d still be following that stuff without shame. I was too old for them when they came out!

i posted something the other day on facebook (which i rarely do anymore) about how bad rowling sucks and a friend who was a *huge* fan was like, "i'll keep the books and dvds i got years and years ago - i already have them - but i'm never paying for anything of hers again." i was like, "solid."

There's so many similar properties you can get into instead too, how are you not bored with HP by now? Fantastic Beasts was total dogshit, even if you were a huge HP fan, unless you're pro-nazi-rowling you should be sick of it all. Join us in the Witch Hat Atelier fanclub.

I think there's also some rage to be had over a group of ADULTS who take a FICTIONAL THING so seriously that they are intent on preserving it to the detriment of other, REAL THINGS. Aka "Dobby's grave" It's emotionally immature at the very least.

D&D, GURPS, and Warhammer adults looking around nervously. I’m happy a 1970s to 1990 overly complicated strategy board game adult.

Eh full disclosure, if you gave her the views of K.A Applegate I'd be a shameless Harry Potter adult which makes the betrayal sting even harder I also respect the people who basically tried to expropriate the fandom from her, but once she made transphobia her personality it was over

I was already in my 20’s when Harry Potter hit theaters AND Lord of the Rings hit at the same time. Fandom for that one missed me.

If she hadn’t done that heel turn and was still just supporting children’s charities I might still be in the fandom. I made good friends there! We wrote stories picking apart the flaws in the books! And Bellatrix was an easy closet cosplay for me! But my son (who grew up on the books) is trans. DONE

I know one person who legitimately fits the latter. They love HP and also they lived on an island with very limited electricity or Internet access for like the past 7 years and then had a kid immediately when they came back from there so are still checked out of the world.

HP adults used to be a lot better, tho. Disney adults, in my experience as a tattooer, are self-absorbed apolitical children. Potter adults were easier to deal with in every way. HP tattoos went out of style in my area years ago so I don't know what current HP fans are like

In 2025, when ABC pulled Jimmy Kimmel, Disney adults began canceling subscriptions and a number of them even began canceling vacations. In 2025, when Rowling spewed even more transphobia, Harry Potter adults were still re-sharing the new series trailer and talking about the video game.

The fact that this was the first post I've seen marked with a thread count, and it happened to be ¾ is absolutely hilarious

Not simply in the "rainbow coalition" way, but that the Disney brand identity outstripped its individual creator long ago. The only name associated with the Disney Brand is of someone long dead, whose creative inheritors (while still bound by brand identity, S&P, etc) get to be more expressive

Tbh I think anyone affiliated with us has either been convinced or left the site.

Harry Potter fans are the apex NIMBY. The nemesis of progress. Those San Francisco boomers never stood a chance. Behold their power: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16038637/Harry-Potter-fans-energy-project-elf-grave-beach.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=social-twitter_mailonline

Yes

Here in Florida, we're cursed with a double crisis of Harry Potter AND Disney adults, both propogated by the hedonistic city of Orlando

see house elves don't actually desire freedom, they ENJOY servitude, the problem is just when the people who own them are mean you see 🥺 its possible to own a slave and be nice to them and thats all they really want

Ok, that is a great point.

bro thinks that machine ever had an off switch 💀

I read it quite a bit back in the day when I was a teenager

ah but so am I! and I have genuine shame about telling so many people to commit suicide, and I have no desire to do it again for that reason. but maybe something a bit more mild than that, just some "your wife left you for a good reason" -level stuff where it's spicy but not over-the-top

Like it's basically this image

(What if I'm only 2 out of 3 between former Goon, person that certainly never got banned by moot, and furry? Still wish /pol/ had been killed earlier; as it was the cancer got bad enough that removing it just cause metastasis.)

I bet the biggest day of their lives was when they graduated from The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Where do I go to sign this petition?

For sure! and it keeps it culturally relevant!

one day, when doing the impossibly long mental calculus about who’s a safe space to come out to, they’ll remember that ruthless dehumanization and championing genocidal policy wasn’t enough to ruin their parents’ enjoyment of the wizard books.

I swear I once heard a Harry Potter fan that was convinced JRR Tolkien's books were 'too derivative'.

The only Harry Potter adult I knew pretended to be liberal but voted for Trump the first time and dated a cop (I didn't stick around to see how she'd vote the next go). So you're really selling this one to me ngl.

From my experiences at cons I can say that even in those very queer spaces, MANY of the HP people are entirely unaware, or they try to somehow distance themselves from her, which obviously doesn't work. But it's shocking how many folks don't know what Terfs are or never heard of any of this.

And they certainly didn't bury him. You flush something like that down the guest toilet and then keep a brick on the lid for good measure

Dobby Died For Your Sins

The only thing hp related that I can in fact still touch are fanfics which tend to be better written anyway.

Interesting to me that I can think of three horrible people - Bill Cosby, Van Morrison and J.K. Rowling. I can still read HP and listen to Van Morrison but I threw away my Cosby Show DVDs. I figured it out. I never felt like JK or Van Morrison were good people. But I thought Cosby was a good man.

i am no longer asking you to read another fucking book

Bullying's never justified.

I think it's perfectly fine to call them out, but I find centering it around HP itself is a bad idea. Not that they books are secretly great or anything, but that it takes focus away from the real issue and gives the impression this is just fandom drama and not about Rowling targeting trans rights.

I assume there are some lady holdout, celebrating 20 years of astral love with their blorbo. But I bet that they moved on to Jethro Gibbs, to Loki, to a kpop star or Wei Wuxian. No fault divorce applies on the astral plane.

No one breaks down internet lore like Aeons!

I was correct; i hate myself

Sounds alot like many people's relationship with Jesus.

I don't disagree: they should get a special corner of the Earth

Whelp. My day is ruined. Time to start drinking at... 6:30 am.

🎵Snape, Snape, Severus Snape🎵

"Snapism"

Thank you so much for this I love Strange Eons so much. I've come to trust Teya's gaze (as a gawker)

That's ok, I also hate you for asking.

Sadly, a good number of them were there for Snape himself. A very cynical part of me wonders what happens with the introduction of very hot 35 year old Black Snape. But I ain't going near anything related to new Potter or giving it eyeballs

Most of the snapewives are kpop fancam reposters now, because mental illness isn't taken as seriously as it should be and forced euthanasia is still called murder.

A lot of Disney, Nintendo, MCU people ect are cool but I've yet to meet a normal harry Potter adult this decade

5) I respect anyone who is, "This was an important thing to me and I dropped it" much more than "HP sucked from the beginning so you should stop reading it!" 6) There's a reason why it became a zeitgeist and just because you prefer Discworld/Worst Witch/etc doesn't mean it's a universal replacement

^^^this this this I was a kid & thot the books were crappy. When she became publically cruel I was mostly shocked that *others* were shocked Me: “no one could already tell? from her writing?? just me?” But then again I predicted the Neil Gaimon issues too - so maybe I really can just tell

The "worse" I've encountered were just a couple relatives who are gatekeepers; the people that are like 'the book was better actually.' 'Not sure if these are HP adults online, or your experience irl.

Joanne yer pulling me over the fuckin’ line

The "Read Another Book" crowd didn't bully these fuckos hard enough

I occasionally see someone saying read another book and just from those three words know the entire context of the thread

May the whole new Harry Potter show be cursed And HP adults miserable for life

yeah tim fucking hortons is doing a hp crossover in 2026 and it's genuinely like. what the fuck were you thinking. what is wrong with you.

this is the energy I bring to every code review

No. Disney is an enemy too. bsky.app/profile/kimi...

You mean these idiots? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

You don't need to bully to shame. Like shaming the fact that most Harry Potter adults do not read other books. Shaming's goal is to do better, like hoping people go on to read books. My teachers were excited Harry Potter would get people into reading. They would be disappointed in most of them.