The other thing is that Harry Potter is obsolete. Its a thirty year old series that hasn't seen a major installment in nearly two decades and its not good enough to survive the extended test of time on its own merit. More importantly, is that the growth it spurned in the YA novel industry led it to produce works that outclass Harry Potter in every way.

So can we please let Harry Potter die so that people stop asking me what my fucking Hogwarts house is?

The world view it espoused wasn't even very liberal. There's literally a race of superbeings that are superior to everyone else who segregated themselves off into their own secret apartheid ethnostate. The bankers are their own race, and are also forbidden by law to have the basic tools of magic or allowed to go to magic school. There's literally a slave race too, and freeing them was mocked by the narrative. The vast majority of humanity regularly have their minds, memories, and free will violated as a matter of law.

A critical analysis of Harry Potter reveals a hellworld, and we're supposed to cheer for them because the good apartheid ethnostate only turns its cruelty on other races instead of turning the cruelty inward. She accidentally wrote a critique of her own worldview

Both can be true

Obligatory bell hooks takedown of HP from 2002

Harry Potter: depicts neoliberal hell, immensely popular among people who grew up in the 90s and 00s but fell off hard among people who don't have nostalgia for that exact specific era of life in the anglosphere

Pokemon: depicts socialist utopia, immensely popular across multiple generations and cultures with no signs of slowing even though the games have kinda sucked for a while

well that is correct, actually

JKR/HP transphobia is intimately connected to her brain dead reactionary liberalism, which young people around the world are rejecting

Young people on both the right and left are also less wedded to political institutions. Those of us born in the 20th century had grown used to the idea that the right stands for tradition and the left for reform. In the liberal era, everyone was expected to hew quite closely to the status quo.

But what we see now is that both factions stand for revolution.

The conservative writer Rod Dreher recently asked a young man in Washington to outline the demands of his generation’s right-wing radicals. “They don’t have any,” he replied, “they just want to tear everything down.”

The Zoomer left is no less radical. In Harry Potter, the good guys do not deliberately kill, but instead stun or disarm their opponents. Here Ms. Rowling endorses a liberal commitment to nonviolence that appears to be falling out of favor, particularly on the left. In a recent YouGov poll, the respondents most likely to endorse the statement “political violence can sometimes be justified” skewed young and left wing. We saw a glimpse of this change in norms after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, when some young leftists responded with indifference bordering on glee.

I mean, I'm not going to read an nyt opinion piece on gen z killing the Harry Potter industry, but I think it's increasingly evident that gen z likes liberalism less than prior generations, and it makes sense that many people who don't like liberalism would find the wizard cop books revolting. Also they're just not good books and the marketing gimmick of aging with the audience was a one time feature of their publication.

Another “why don’t kids today have exactly the same interests and tastes as I did 30 years ago?” article from a NYCrimes turbolib, what a shocker.

Literally doing the “no, it’s the kids who are wrong” meme.

We found that Harry Potter fans tend to be more accepting of those who are different, to be more politically tolerant, to be more supportive of equality, to be less authoritarian, to be more opposed to the use of violence and torture, to be less cynical, and to evince a higher level of political efficacy.

Jesus fucking christ

Edit:

Liberalism is not the human default. It is a style of doing politics that can be sustained only in a society that is peaceful, affluent and high-trust all at once — a rare combination in our species’ history. Under such conditions, we might well see a widespread tolerance of free speech, a rejection of political violence and a popular faith in democratic processes.

Imperialist piece of shit fucking conservative garbage

maybe its also because its a millenial thing and zoomers and alphas dont care about it

So they admit that racism, antisemitism, and overt fascism is just Liberalism. Gotcha. Thanks for finally admitting it?

I do find it funny that all the actors that play the heroes: Radcliff, Watson etc are all like "fuck jk rowling" while all the villians are terfs who are on her side

"Surely this can't be because JK Rowling is a balrog of a cunt"

I really enjoyed the aspect of the book releases as "an event" that you would go to at midnight and buy like we do with movies and video games. I did love the books as a kid and would read them in one sitting at release. I do now enjoy walking past Harry Potter stores and not buying their bullshit, and I pirated the films so my mom won't give any money for them.

I think it's less because the author is an asshole than because mediocre children's literature doesn't typically tend to endure. Sure, kids don't have good taste. I read incredibly shitty fiction as a kid! But guess what? Most of that isn't still in the popular imagination, either.

I'd like it to be because she's a POS but I suspect most people aren't particularly plugged into JK Rowling's Nazi arc.

It's also in part because once the readership becomes adult, it's a lot harder to not notice how badly written it is.

Harry Potter just also isn't very good. It's dreck, which to anyone here is obviously a result of jk Rowling having such a non material liberal worldview. There's no cohesive piecing together of all the shit she writes into a believable, breathing world because she has no interest or ability in examining things at such a detailed level as to make it work. So every bit of her worldbuilding ends up being cotton candy that dissolves under the slightest scrutiny.

She was successful because she was boosted up by the NYT and other media in a self reinforcing cycle of sales but 20 years later we have other ways of being exposed to new and better written media

It's also just kind of shitty. Like it was a cultural moment. And millennials are parents now and parent stuff is cringe.

Hell, harry potter was cringe for me. Sorry if you have a deathly hallows tattoo like you needed to chill

Love Me I'm a Liberal,but it's an unironic and progressively more pathetic series of verses begging and pleading to be relevant again.

Both can be true. A shit story written by a shit person.

When the author is detestable enough to have scores of former fans go out of their way to make the story radioactive, that does put a damper on efforts to carry it forward.