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Post by ladyfiaran22 on Jul 31, 2020 12:12:18 GMT -5
Good Lord, I haven’t read the Harry Potter books in years and I nearly forgot the dodgy stuff in her books. I’ve heard of Percy Jackson and I’d assumed it was just some kids fantasy books but the article made it sound interesting. I have the first three Percy Jackson books in my queue on Hoopla and I’ll go check them out once August begins and I can check out my next 10 books per month. Hoopla is an app run through the library system, it’s free and allows one to check out 10 items per month and it’s free with a library card.
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Post by BettyNewbie on Jul 31, 2020 14:18:25 GMT -5
I feel very glad that I never got actively involved with HP fandom. I loved the earlier books and movies back in middle school, but Books 5-7 fell flat with me, and I lost interest after that. Even back then, the fandom seemed to be a toxic mess with all the shipping wars, and it's only gotten worse since then. HP honestly should've been left behind in the 00s.
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Post by Tim on Jul 31, 2020 17:17:22 GMT -5
WHAT!?
It took one such Tweet to destroy Rosanne Barr's career. How much long can this go on before Jo's career implodes as well.
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Post by ladyfiaran22 on Jul 31, 2020 17:35:13 GMT -5
Jo should get off Twitter ASAP before she makes herself look even more stupid and offensive. This is going to piss off Potterheads even more, she doesn’t seem to realize that she’s digging herself into an even deeper hole. I’m glad I don’t do Twitter, it seems to be full of loonies.
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Post by Tim on Jul 31, 2020 23:20:40 GMT -5
Jo should get off Twitter ASAP before she makes herself look even more stupid and offensive. This is going to piss off Potterheads even more, she doesn’t seem to realize that she’s digging herself into an even deeper hole.
That time has already come and gone.
And the idiot is taking the whole franchise down with her.
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Post by nimue on Aug 1, 2020 8:52:57 GMT -5
Doesn't she have anyone to advise her? Anyone to tell her that she needs to shut up because of the backlash she's getting? At first, I was willing to give her the benefit of the doubt, until that whole exchange with Stephen King, but that made things quite clear... I used to like J K Rowling, admire how she'd gone from a poor single mother struggling, to a multimillionnaire writer... How fame and money changes people, it's quite scary... Like someone else has already said, what's she's saying is in complete contradiction with the messages of her books: tolerance, standing up for what is right...
But I don't actually own any Harry Potter merchandise (save gifts people gave me when I was a kid, for birthdays and christmases), I haven't read any of the other books she's written since, haven't been to any of the theme parks, and have watched the Fantastic Beasts movie online (yes, I do actually kind of like them), so I don't feel any guilt from that point of view...
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Post by Melinda Halliwell on Aug 1, 2020 11:14:49 GMT -5
My mum and I like the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beast films and will continue watching them whether on DVD or TV still despite what Rowling's done.
We mayn't watch the third Fantastic Beast film in the cinema but download or view that via Netflix depending as we'd separate JK from that then.
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Post by Tim on Aug 1, 2020 11:25:51 GMT -5
Doesn't she have anyone to advise her? Anyone to tell her that she needs to shut up because of the backlash she's getting?
Apparently not. She just keeps on Tweeting and digging herself deeper.
And dropping an f-bomb on a nine year old? That's going way too far.
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Post by adzpower on Aug 2, 2020 5:23:54 GMT -5
This just breaks my heart, what the hell is she doing? Harry Potter was such a big part of my childhood, it still was up until oh, about a month ago. I loved the fandom, I loved everything about it, and now this cow has come along and poisoned it. You just had to keep your mouth shut and no-one would have ever known what a bigot you are, we could have carried on blissfully unaware and you could have made another easy billion dollars from your mega-successful franchise that will now sink like a brick.
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Post by Tim on Aug 2, 2020 11:20:40 GMT -5
This just breaks my heart, what the hell is she doing? Harry Potter was such a big part of my childhood, it still was up until oh, about a month ago. I loved the fandom, I loved everything about it, and now this cow has come along and poisoned it. You just had to keep your mouth shut and no-one would have ever known what a bigot you are, we could have carried on blissfully unaware and you could have made another easy billion dollars from your mega-successful franchise that will now sink like a brick.
Yeah, one has to feel bad for the fans here, especially those who's childhood that HP was part of.
Bad to see it destroyed, but it's worse that the destroyer is the same person that created it in the first place.
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Post by Sunday on Aug 2, 2020 22:21:22 GMT -5
I've kept out of listening to all the bad press regarding her, I won't let her ruin the movies, books, and my fond memories of visiting the Harry Potter world for me at all. I've barely read much of what she has said, so I'm only just seeing what is said here.
But, it's the hard truth that most of our idols and people who are famous, are not nice people, or fame goes to their heads. Now Ellen is getting so much bad press for how she treated people on her show, that it makes you wonder just how worth it is to really idolise the stars.
It's enough that I just feel it's much better to admire and look up to people you ACTUALLY know, than all the stars and famous people who we truly don't know who they are outside of the image (some not all, we have so many great people out there who don't let fame and fortune go to their head) but some are just acting behind an image when they are the complete opposite in real life.
J.K. just needs to delete her twitter. She is only going to make it worse. This is both a good and bad thing about social media, it is letting us see the true colours of all these famous people, back 20 years ago, we'd never see any of this.
But, she really has let down so many fans. She doesn't care about them it seems.
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Post by Tim on Aug 2, 2020 23:25:19 GMT -5
The Dom has turned his back on Harry Potter because of this:
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Post by BettyNewbie on Aug 3, 2020 15:13:57 GMT -5
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Post by Tim on Aug 3, 2020 16:32:29 GMT -5
Odd that they dance around the issue WHY the sales are down.
Why don't they just say it, the reason is because of her shooting her mouth off on Twitter. Hardly a coincidence.
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Post by BettyNewbie on Aug 3, 2020 18:41:50 GMT -5
Odd that they dance around the issue WHY the sales are down.
Why don't they just say it, the reason is because of her shooting her mouth off on Twitter. Hardly a coincidence.
Go click the link and read the rest of the article. I'm just so over everything about HP and JKR. I already was long before this shit even started, too. I wish our culture (and JKR herself) had just left those books behind in the 00s. Let them be nothing more than something people loved as children and teenagers. Some things are better off staying in the past.
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