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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 feel like the main trio rejecting JKR's transpobia and pissing her off so bad she's doing a reboot out of spite has caused the franchise to wind up in a weird place where the film adaptations are more respected than the original work precisely because of their distance from the original author.

The movies legitimately did remove most of JKR’s nastiest tendencies like always making fun of fat people or the whole HAPPY SLAVES thing. Everything people criticize the most is absent from the films other than the whole “and society didn’t need to change just kill wizard hitler”

I think this puts you at the relatively distant end from it; it was a fun ride while it lasted.

Hot take(?): the movies aren’t very good, but they are significantly better than the books, not to a small degree because some of the most obnoxious stuff got sanded out

kinda makes me wonder about the new TV show. I presume JKR is in a much stronger position to get her own way now, so I wonder if she has ceeded less control. The TV show much have much more ... eyebrow raising stuff...

I don't know. Rowling is a terrible fantasy writer and an awful person but she is good at writing a mystery, the books are page turners. (Why all the kids got hooked on them) The movies are just generic hollywood fare, nothing great about them really. The spellcasting looks dumb too.

I think the books are generally pretty good at middle schoolers' feelings