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We should really work together, hand and hand, to focus all of our community’s poorly-suppressed and totally ruthless bullying energy on the single demographic we all agree actually deserves it: Harry Potter Adults in the year of our lord 2026

We argue constantly and at length about if certain groups actually deserve to be made fun of, but there is one true and unambiguously morally and ethically correct answer, and that is “people who remember 9/11 who still root their self identity in being a Slytherin”

The Disney adults are fine: I have known many Disney adults who are great people who just have a hobby I find incomprehensible but mostly harmless. The Harry Potter adults are never great people.

There are even people who were once Harry Potter adults and who recovered who are great. Being a Harry Potter Adult in 2026, however, is a very serious indicator that you are either a genuine shithead or so totally checked out that you’re basically a sea cucumber and shouldn’t be able to type

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

I never read them as a kid and on a lark I tried the first few books a few years back and the thing that stands out to me is they have absolutely nothing to say. There is not much going on with them subtextually or thematically. It’s pure empty calories, unlike a lot of kids media.

For sure, Rowling is technically competent at writing prose and constructing a narrative and characters with a trait or two but idk, there’s something about how little the books have to actually say about the hidebound, hierarchical society with lots of clear problems. There’s a vacuousness to it.