• But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    This is why the new tv series will be hated by all. They had a chance to remake and sanitize the series away from the grimy hands of JK and instead they doubled down. So if anything this remake might be even more offensive.

    The wild thing is that growing up I had all the conservatives and bible people trying to stop us kids from reading the demonic Harry Potter novels. Now that they realize the author is one of them, they suddenly love the books about witchcraft!

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      3 days ago

      Unfortunately, they won’t be hated. A lot of people don’t actually care all that much about trans people :(

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      They had a chance to remake and sanitize the series away from the grimy hands of JK

      Did they really? My impression was that she used her copyright control

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        Are you not aware that Snape literally has been cast as black? Because if not that’s hilarious coincidence.

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        3 days ago

        I don’t think Hogwarts: Legacy doubled down, though? It’s definitely sad that she made money off that game being sold, but she didn’t have any hand in the writing. The game has trans characters and allows the player to be trans as well.

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          My comment was only to point out that the mainstream does not care about JKR’s take on trans people and that anything Harry Potter will print money, which is the opposite of OP’s take on things.

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          2 days ago

          she does profit from the IP being sold. and people were like defending the game and her transphobia.