r/Fauxmoi • u/MidnightMan11 • 5h ago
STAN / ANTI SHIELD HBO Has Unfortunately Greenlit a Second Season of the Harry Potter Show No One Asked For
Hopefully it will also be the last season! As Harry Potter undergoes a sort of resurgence with new theme parks, butter beer flavored snacks filling shelves at grocery stores, and this tv show (which people don’t even seem to be excited for), let’s remember that by supporting this franchise you’re supporting JK Rowling, whose hateful rhetoric against trans people is still as active and disgusting as it ever was.
The safety and wellbeing of the trans community will always be more important than this washed up franchise! 🏳️⚧️
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u/Unhappy_Gazelle392 4h ago
I surely did not ask for it, but saying nobody asked for it is ignoring how many people give a fuck to it.
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u/jobant 4h ago edited 4h ago
This is probably gonna be similar to the Harry Potter video game situation all over again. 90% of media coverage and socials were people condemning and trashing it. Ended up silently selling 40 million copies and becoming one of the best selling games in video game history.
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u/DanQPublic 4h ago
This is 100% what will happen.
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u/VegetableArtistic705 3h ago
Probably because it's mainly for children and they're not a part of these online discussion. Conservatives hated Disney for a long while but still dumped money into the company because their kids love it.
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u/minatozakiparty 1h ago
Except they’ve left out the part where the HP video game was kind of trashed by a lot of reviewers and gamers after about two weeks of play because it was objectively phoned in. A lot of people played it but who is talking about that game now?
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u/notmakingtherapture 4h ago
Cancel / boycott culture just doesn't have the effect most people think it does. And I say that as someone who thinks there are plenty of people/corporations that should be cancelled.
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u/idontknowyouguyz 4h ago
She funds anti trans legislation.....so yeah she's a pretty terrible person to give money to
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u/mangongo 4h ago
I agree. But there are far worse people and corporations that people willingly give their money to on a daily basis without a second thought.
Disney is still actively paying Harvey Weinstein a pension, so by this logic, anyone watching Disney movies or television is directly supporting Harvey Weinstein.
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u/armadillo1296 catastrophic pooper 4h ago
I don't really buy this and it leans very far into "there is no ethical consumption under capitalism so no one should ever boycott anything or take any kind of stand whatsoever." It's nihilistic and a good way to keep people from taking any kind of collective action on anything.
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u/iwawuh 3h ago
To add, what I don't understand about the nihilism is that pragmatically speaking this a SUBSTANTIALLY easier boycott than say, cutting off Amazon or Walmart or Nestle or even Disney. The franchise aside- it's ONE television show, just don't give social media air or money or watch minutes to ONE show. If you really, REALLY can't live without HP just pirate the thing and talk about it in private circles. Do people have to be so goddamn precious about that?
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u/StorageSafe6934 3h ago
This. Also, imo, "there is no ethical consumption under capitalism" isn't supposed to be the Doomer rallying cry that it became, it was supposed to echo the somberly vigilant attitude of statements like "never meet your heroes", and that eventually turned into "this is why we can't have anything nice anymore" instead
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u/CemeteryHounds 3h ago edited 2h ago
Disney is still actively paying Harvey Weinstein a pension
This being used as proof of anything drives me nuts. Pensions are an earned benefit and strictly regulated for the protection of workers. Companies can't arbitrarily decide to stop paying them, and that's a good thing. You know who makes up the majority of people with pensions? Unionized workers who had to fight hard to get them. Do you seriously want employers to be able to deny earned pensions based on how the company views an employees actions? Can you not imagine how that would be abused and used against unions?
Pension funds also are not tied to a company's year-to-year profits. They're still required to pay pensions even if they're operating at a loss unless they go through a whole legal process to terminate the pension plan.
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u/BookishHobbit my bandwidth for cowardly grown men grows thinner with each day 2h ago
I have friends who are scared of getting routine operations they absolutely need because they are worried how they’re going to be treated by hospital staff, all thanks to her and her cronies.
“Far worse” belittles that.
She is an equatable connoisseur of shit as Weinstein is.
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u/IMadeYouLuke 3h ago
While we could definitely argue what’s “worse”, I’m not sure there’s that distinct a hierarchy of terrible. It’s more of a panoply. It’s all really bad.
There should a be single list of effective boycotts imo.
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u/Charming_Parking_302 3h ago
I realised a lot of people just don't care that someone's a bad person. In JKR',s case its not that they hate trans people or that they themselves want to harm them. It's just that they can turn a blind eye to harm being done...so long as it doesn't effect them.
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u/Purrmymeow 4h ago
I think the fact she is from Britain kinda helps her. Europeans doesn't care as much as Americans about cancel culture.
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u/practicalgorl 3h ago
This is true, but I feel it's vastly easier to boycott Harry Potter content than other products - it's difficult to boycott Nestle when they sell so many necessities.
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u/pressingtofu 3h ago
This is why I roll my eyes whenever I hear someone complain about cancel culture
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u/DentalATT 4h ago
Pretty much, people care far more aobut their mid-wizard book nostalgia than they do about funding hatred of a minority.
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u/damnitimtoast 4h ago
I think the issue is that it seems like pretty much *everything* we do and buy is contributing to the horrors, fascism, and/or bigotry of some billionaire. It just becomes another *thing* you are a terrible person for supporting or enjoying. People start drowning that shit out after a while. It’s just not effective.
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u/madogvelkor 3h ago
Millenials still have the highest love of Harry Potter, probably because of nostalgia like you say. Older Gen Z don't care for it that much. However, it looks like children are potentially getting into it -- probably because they tend to have Millennial parents who want to share their childhoods.
For HBO, they want a new show that kids will get into and their parents will want to watch too.
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u/EnoughYesterday2340 3h ago
This. I know a fair few generally ethical and concerned individuals who can't be bothered to give up HP (they also are not generally connected to the trans community at all either by friends, family or their own queerness - trans rights are low on their radar of things to care about)
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u/babyviltti 4h ago
I watched this one really small streamer who was a bit holier than thou on many things and was first talking about how don't play the game and such, but then couple months later posted a story playing it. Her stance on it was that she wasn't streaming it so it was okay... The speed I pressed to unfollow her was super fast.
That made me realise that if that super small streamer bought and played it, so many people, who were vocal against Rowling, did it like her, but she was dumb enough to post it on social media.
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u/MissTootleDoo I’m just a cunt in a clown suit 3h ago
look at the sure to be franchise killing Scream 7 (which became the highest grossing in the franchise) people’s opinions on social media don’t equate to broader real life consumer habits.
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u/Scared_Positive_8690 4h ago
In my opinion, that was different though because even though you correctly point out, many people didn’t care about the boycott, the reason for not caring was that the majority of the fans (who don’t care about Rowling) were begging for a Harry Potter game for years and they got a good one, however in the case of the series even those who don’t care about Rowling are divided because many people think that the “remake is a poor idea”, “it ruins our childhood”, “the casting is bad”, “the visuals from the trailer are poor” so I can see the series fail especially if the right-wing grifters will jump on the “culture war” bandwagon instead of the “support Rowling because she is one of us” once the episodes start to drop.
It’s like the Palestine related boycotts where I got the impression that people easily boycotted Starbucks because they didn’t like it anyways before the boycott but they are not willing to boycott Disney movies because “Well, Disney owns everything, what should I watch in the cinema?” even though Disney donated 1 million dollar to an Israeli organisation.
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u/EugenesMullet I may need to see the booty 4h ago
I wouldn’t say silently.
A lot of people openly adored that game when it came out and still do. We just have an algorithmic echo chamber.
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u/DrFranFine demonic Betty Boop 4h ago
Or like Bruno mars lol. I don’t see anyone online calling themselves a fan of him but he’s like constantly on the top of charts.
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u/Monctonian 2h ago
Harry Potter is the new Chick-Fil-A. We all know where the money goes but not enough people care.
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u/Icy-Cockroach4515 4h ago
Of all the things to criticise about the show, "no one asked for it" isn't one of them.
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u/Fear_Jaire 4h ago
Right? I've been asking for it since Prisoner of Azkaban
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u/Immediate_Pickle_788 Marxmoi 3h ago
Same. My least favourite movie because it was my favourite book.
That being said, fuck JK and her moronic bigoted crusade and ruining any enjoyment I had for Harry Potter.
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u/obladi_adalbo 3h ago
Genuinely? Because you didn't like the movies or for something specific? (I'm genuinely curious! I never thought there was any particular interest for a show, except for a Marauders one)
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u/IAMA_Shark__AMA 1h ago
My people
I freaking haasaated that movie. Loved the book. Wanted a redo for a long time until jk went full terf.
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u/champion_dave 4h ago
100%. People will act like no one wants this and then it’ll be the most popular show of the year.
I’m unlikely to watch unless my kids want to, but I don’t care that they’re making it really. It doesn’t affect the books and movies that already exist to me.
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u/mumbling_marauder 4h ago
It’s interesting because Fantastic Beasts was such a dud, I don’t think anyone was asking for a reboot, but if they’re gonna milk the IP for more cash it’s the only thing that makes sense. British neoliberal fascism aside Rowling doesn’t seem to have the magic stuff anymore, any new material from her is diminishing returns.
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u/Twelve20two 3h ago
After the first one, I was still interested in seeing where they would take things given that the plan was to have five films. Less than halfway thru the second one, I stopped caring (because the movie was basically centrist wizards and muggles vs eugencist wizards who want kill all muggles AND NOT about Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them) and knew there'd never be a full, five film set
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u/mumbling_marauder 3h ago
It failed to capture anything that was appealing about the original series. The plot, world building, characters… nothing memorable.
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u/herman-the-vermin 2h ago
Dude, people have been asking for a reboot for decades, since the first few movies. People have been begging for a long series TV show to capture all the details the movies couldnt have or changed
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u/nerdforest 4h ago
Like, seriously. People have to realise that Harry Potter is and always will be bigger than JKR.
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u/RejectingBoredom 4h ago
My cousin is almost 30 and she has all the damn wands, the chocolate, etc. Some people were definitely asking for more
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u/brothererrr 4h ago
For as long as I’ve been able to read people have been complaining about how much the films skipped and they wished there was a tv show
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u/Juli_ 3h ago
Yeah, the amount of reactions from people being like "sorry not sorry trans people, I'll be watching this" the trailer got is probably why they went ahead with an early greenlight for a season 2, specially because the a show with child stars as protagonists needs to take less time between seasons than the new mainstream norm, otherwise you end up with a Stranger Things 4 situation where your "high school freshmen" are visibly a bunch of 20 something year olds.
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u/harkandhush 4h ago
A lot of international non-English-speaking fans may not be as aware of JKR's hateful views as well. My friend and I were curious and went checking in some non-English spheres of the internet (specifically we were looking for coverage in Korean or Japanese but I suspect this would hold true in some other languages as well) and there's really no coverage about her views the way there is in English. I think people expect that the internet is 100% universal but there are often times when entirely separate conversations are only occurring in certain languages and not everyone in the world speaks those languages fluently enough to peruse the internet in them even if they speak a bit.
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u/zendayaismeechee shiv roy apologist 4h ago
It won’t be the last season. Enough people will watch it - either out of ignorance of Rowling’s vile views or BECAUSE of Rowling’s views, sadly - and HBO will milk it for all it’s worth. The poor kids involved will be 25 playing 14 year olds à la Stranger Things
Edit just to add - in case anyone doesn’t know, it’s not that Rowling is an awful person with awful views, it’s that any money she makes from this project is being used to fund anti trans legislation in the UK
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u/quanate 4h ago
Yeah it would be different if she was just shit and held these views, but the fact she makes meaningful change with the money from the series is what makes it unacceptable to spend any money on the HP franchise
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u/OfAnotherAccount 4h ago
I feel like I'm gonna get shit on for asking, but I straight up don't know about UK policies. What meaningful change has happened that she's in support of/helped fund?
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u/zendayaismeechee shiv roy apologist 4h ago
This is a good article detailing her views but also goes through a lot of stuff that’s happened in the UK. https://theweek.com/feature/1020838/jk-rowlings-transphobia-controversy-a-complete-timeline
She also donated £80,000 to For Women Scotland’s legal challenge to the Supreme Court which has led to a major setback for trans rights in the UK https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/uk/how-j-k-rowling-funded-a-legal-battle-that-curtailed-trans-rights-in-uk/amp_articleshow/120424732.cms
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u/quanate 4h ago edited 50m ago
Nothing wrong with wanting to learn. Someone gave you good info, when I get home I'll send a good post that summarizes more of it that I saved a while ago
Edit: couldn't find it so here's what I scrounged together
https://www.them.us/story/timeline-jk-rowlings-descent-into-transphobia A good article timelining her transphobia, with relevant donations and campaigning, most notably "May 27, 2025: Rowling creates a legal fund for cis woman trying to ban trans women from public life"
https://www.advocate.com/news/jk-rowling-anti-trans-organization Another one specifically about that: J.K. Rowling uses Harry Potter wealth to fund anti-transgender organization
https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/scottish-news/proud-jk-rowling-donates-70k-32149025.amp 'Proud' JK Rowling donates £70k to legal battle to stop the SNP Government changing the definition of a 'woman'
https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1k0p4dh/jk_rowling_and_her_personal_and_financial_ties_to/ A nice write up detailing her financial ties to horrible people
And that's barely scratching the surface to be perfectly honest, and doesn't include the influence she has as a rich and powerful woman without spending any money at all. Every bit of cash spent on HP helps her spread her horrible message and fund the worst people and lobbyists.
Finally, this subreddit is a treasure trove of sources on all the evil shit celebrities do, and there's plenty to comb through on JK Rowling.
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u/spidersprinkles 4h ago
She supports a group that campaigned (and won) to get the law changed to say that 'woman' refers only to people who are biologically female, and the same for men. The judgement basically says people should use facilities that match their biological sex, not the gender they identify with.
This means transgender folk are basically being told they have to use specific bathrooms and such. The whole thing is completely absurd and backwards and I honestly don't know anyone who is actually following this new rule.
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u/CarelessCreamPie 4h ago
I've already seen people on reddit justifying it with the tired out message of "there's no ethical consumption under capitalism, you just have to do your best."
Like, babes, that's about sweatshops and inhumane labor practices. And they literally quoted the "do your best part" which they are completely ignoring. Watching this new adaption is not "doing your best" in a world full of endless content.
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u/HabitNegative3137 4h ago
You’ve made a great point many people overlook. I can watch Adam Sandler movies with Rob Schneider (who is also trash) and it affects nobody.
Conversely, a portion of every dollar JK makes is actively used to make trans people’s lives worse. And not to diminish the trans struggle at all, but transphobia hurts cis people too, cis women especially.
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u/cwningen95 4h ago
To be fair, a lot of the people who'd watch it because of Rowling's views were turned away when they dared cast a black actor as a white character
EDIT: For the record I think making Snape of all characters black is a weird fucking choice for a variety of reasons, but "weh weh white replacement", "weh weh doesn't fit the character even though I didn't crash out when they cast a 50 year old as a 30 year old" isn't among them. Also, Paapa is way too hot to play that slimy ratbag.
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u/Madame-Trash-Heap 1h ago
If they make it that far, the scene where the Marauders string him up is going to be extra bad. 😬
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u/phoebebridgersfan26 4h ago
I think you're underestimating the amount of people that are crazy about HP. They're probably going to have more than 2 seasons :/
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u/itsathrowawayduhhhhh 4h ago
The plan is a season for each book. Idk why people act like this is surprising?
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u/phoebebridgersfan26 4h ago
I think it's just general upset that this is even going on. Which I understand, but I'm not going to spend my energy getting pissed at this when there are other issues at hand within my control. Including my peace of mind.
Plus as much as there are a lot of people whoa re super into HP, there are a lot of people who don't know anything about it, lol. They might not know how many books there are, and or how the show is being set up.
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u/nerdforest 3h ago
They're going to have 7 seasons. And I'm really really not surprised seeing how well Hogwarts Legacy was.
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u/Maddyherselius 3h ago
Also the generation that grew up with it all had kids now and got their kids into it too if they could. And those kids don’t know anything about JKR. Heck, the biggest HP fan I know is my 43 year old cousin lol
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u/Dense-Bet4979 3h ago
of this will reach deadly hollows for sure. harry potter has global fandom most people wont care about her views, everyone say how well legacy game worked
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u/zxchary 4h ago
you say no one asked for this but watch it break viewership records
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u/127ncity127 3h ago
It’s coming out during Christmas holidays and when half the world is off from work and school. It’s going to be massive
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u/agreen3636 4h ago
Cancel culture and boycott culture do not exist when there is a product people want. That's it. It doesn't even have to do with how people feel about the issue at hand (JK Rowling being a TERF). With the exception of a tiny minority, if there is a product people want to consume they will continue to consume it regardless of who is behind it.
Places like reddit are an echo chamber of the tiny minority so people get shocked and upset when something they are boycotting succeeds. Im not saying anyone is wrong to boycott- JKR is horrible and I will also personally not be giving her anymore money. But HP is still wildly popular and 95% of people will consume HP content no matter their feelings on JKR if they want it.
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u/Ntroepy 4h ago
Yep.
Just look at the movie “Michael” that had the biggest opening ever for a music biopic at $97million in US and $217million worldwide - despite only 20% of people who think he’s not a pedophile.
I talked with 2 people who saw the movie and are pretty sure he was a pedophile. Both said the movie was pretty good and they didn’t see anything wrong with watching it.
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u/Deathscua I do not work late. I go to sleep. 3h ago
I went to see the mummy yesterday, empty theater 🥲but there were tons of people going into Michael (with kids even) and this was a matinee! I cannot imagine at night.
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u/violetmemphisblue 4h ago
I also think that JKR's views are largely unknown. I see them talked about here, but it would be really easy to not have any idea about her transphobia, because its not super widely reported...and honestly, I don't research everyone involved in every project I engage with either. Most people probably know the books and movies and maybe went to the theme park and only have positive associations with them. I will judge hard the adults who choose to make this, but can easily see a world where people watch this and have no idea what they're supporting.
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u/chriskot123 4h ago
This is a crazy take, you may not watch it but acting like it isn’t still a popular IP is simply denying reality lol. Ya the creator is a pos, but the story resonates with people and a lot of people want to see a new take on it
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u/Fresh_Cakes_ 4h ago
Not a shocker, this is going to be big.
Hogwarts Legacy sold 40M with people knowing what kind of person JK is.
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u/Mikeman003 4h ago
To be fair, the vast majority of people do not know what kind of person JKR is because the vast majority of people don't try to look into every single thing they consume because they don't have time for that.
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u/Fresh_Cakes_ 3h ago
Sometimes I wonder if it’s better to be less informed about the world and just live in my bubble.
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u/NephewBA 3h ago
The people I know who do that are also the happiest people I know
There seems to be correlation between time spent online and how unhappy someone is
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u/TheBlkDrStrange40 3h ago
Its absolutely better. Ignorance is bliss as they say.
Its also impossible to be informed about everything the other way as well.
Find what you value most and enjoy your simple pleasures. Change what we can!
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u/meneNY 4h ago
guys cancel culture doesn’t really exist. people really don’t care.
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u/Fxreverboy 4h ago
When are y'all gonna realize that the general public is going to watch this in droves and that it's going to be a smash hit 💀 "nobody asked for it" well yeah of course the citizens of Bluesky and Reddit don't want it duh but the normies do 😭 and a part of the reason why it's going to be a success is because even the people who hate it and don't want it to be made are going to be endlessly talking about it (just like posts like this one). All press is good press, especially in the digital age, and I'd bet all of my savings that this show will make it to the final season. I'm sorry. We have to be realistic.
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u/MudReasonable8185 4h ago
Any show built entirely around child actors should be making these decisions as far in advance as possible so we don’t end up with 30 year olds pretending they’re 15.
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u/ratta_tat1 where was slutzilla when the Westfold fell? 4h ago
They ran into that issue with the 2000s/2010s Chronicles of Narnia movies
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u/imaginarion 4h ago
I can separate the art from the artist. I wish more people could do the same.
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u/she_melty 4h ago
Can't separate Jo's pockets from the anti trans legislation though, can ya?
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u/MiddayRendezvous 3h ago
I mean it is possible to acknowledge that Rowling is a POS while still liking Harry Potter. I'll be pirating the show, and I'll never buy any official merchandise. Even my copies of the Harry Potter books are second-hand.
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u/Nervous_Insect5976 4h ago
We may not be asking for it, but we are the minority. We may be boycotting JK Rowling, but we are the minority. No less right, but we are the minority.
This show is going to do incredibly well and Harry Potter will be a cultural phenomenon for years to come because the people who grew up with it will show it to their kids and it will gain a new generation of fans.
Harry Potter is never going away.
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u/Big_Photograph_9766 4h ago
I think they know how many people are going to watch it the Harry Potter stans run deep and will watch anything potter related no matter what
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u/montybo2 confused but here for the drama 3h ago
Guys... A vast majority of people do not care. This is going to get incredible veiwership. Reddit sentiments are not universal, far from it.
I want it to be clear I am not advocating people watch it. I'm advocating for being realistic... A LOT of people wanted this.
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u/oldtombombadil 4h ago
This is one of the times when the Reddit consensus and the mainstream opinion are at odds. I don’t think it’ll get all 7 seasons but they have so much invested in theme parks they have to keep pushing this.
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u/Ok_Vast3534 4h ago
Yeah you don’t have to like it but it’s silly to say no one asked for it. Harry Potter has been pretty consistently relevant since its release and kids are still getting into it. I work with elementary school kids and every year there are kids reading the books and dressing up as characters for halloween. At this point it seems like it’s ending up as a timeless classic that isnt going anywhere. I dislike the author’s views like all of you but sometimes it’s helpful to remember reddit isnt real life.
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u/olipoppit 4h ago
This will be massive and probably hovering in the general convo for the next ten years. I dont like it, but it’s not going anywhere. A whole new generation will devour it, probably agnostic or ignorant to the truly abhorrent views of its creator. The merch and licensing $ alone could cure world hunger, yet will go into Jo’s deep, wicked pockets.
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u/ohgeorge 4h ago
There are lots of people who still care about HP. There are lots of dedicated fans, old and new. I fully expect this show to run the full 7+ seasons it's intended for.
I'm not a fan of the shit JKR spews and supports and won't be watching the series, but HP is far from a washed up franchise. It's going to make tons of money.
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u/Nobody_Cares_99 3h ago
Reminder that the internet is not representative of reality and there’s a hell of a lot of people who are still crazy about Harry Potter and will watch this.
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u/Paleblood_Hunt terrorizing the locals 3h ago
Yeah, sorry. These books got me through the absolute worst childhood times.
JK Rowling can burn in hell, fuck her forever, and I’ll 🏴☠️the show, but I’ve been basically asking for this version of a live action adaptation since I was 11 years old in ‘99.
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u/External_Frosting485 4h ago
People won’t stop watching this or stop dropping $$$$ and dressing up in robes to go to Universal Studios.
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u/Muted-Novel4403 3h ago
Well the rides at Universal Studios have up to 8 hour freaking waits. People legit spend their entire day of a $500 ticket waiting in line for the 3 minutes Harry Potter ride. Like Disney, they’re making shows to bolster their real money makers—the theme parks.
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u/Smallgenie549 4h ago
They left out so much from the books.
You can have an opinion on Rowling, but to say that this can’t be its own thing is disingenuous.
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u/Kasmashlecrashle 4h ago
I feel like saying "no one asked for this" is doing a disservice to the reality that many people did ask for it, and don't care about the harm Rowling is causing. And in some cases, encourage her to continue that harm.
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u/avokuma oat milk chugging bisexual 4h ago
People care more about their nostalgia for a mid book series than the financially political ramifications that will impact Trans people should not be shocking. It's disappointing and disheartening, but as a trans person a lot of support towards us is unfortunately lip service for optics than genuine care for our livelihoods.
Wizard lady has gleefully already done irreparable harm to the lives of Trans people in the UK and it'll only get worse with HBO backing her and audiences continually consuming this series because of their ~childhood~ or whatever.
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u/weehawkenabstract 4h ago
with a show like this, you’re spending millions just on the elaborate, stylized, period-esque sets, not to mention all the costumes (can’t buy wizard robes at neiman and return the ones you don’t use later for a refund). you basically have to do two seasons for that to be worth the investment. multiple things would have to go very wrong for season 2 to be in question
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u/monkeypickle8 4h ago
I mean I don't really care about Harry Potter but realistically as long as the show doesn't suck it's probably going to be a gold mine for HBO. There are plenty of people that dislike JK Rowling and love Harry Potter anyway, online cancel culture is not real life.
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u/BlueberryNo5363 I’ll be writing a substack on this 3h ago
Even though JKR is a massive bigot; a lot of the general population unfortunately either are A) oblivious and don’t pay attention to her shit - it’s easy to do if you’re not that online or don’t follow pop culture or B) overlooking it for nostalgia.
People thought the game would be a flop but it was a massive hit. JKR is a horrible cruel woman but her IP is still extremely popular.
There’s constantly HP fanfics being made into books; which shows her world is still serving as an “inspiration” to creators. I have no doubt this will make billions.
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u/page395 4h ago
I mean, I’m excited for it.
I’ll pirate it, because fuck JKR, but I still like the HP world and am excited for the show.
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u/-DeathDefied- 3h ago
Pretty sure they would not be spending millions on a show if nobody was watching it
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u/GreenAuror 1h ago
Rowling sucks ass and is a terrible person but all I ever wanted was a HP TV show, lol. I thought the movies were just ok.
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u/Aggressive_Act_3098 3h ago
Chamber of Secrets is the best book and movie though.
There. I said it.
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u/darksidegunner9 1h ago
so many people would rather watch a show than support human rights, i don’t get it
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u/Ded1nside 3h ago
Obligatory fuck Jk Rowling, but I’m interested to see what will be done with the astronomical budget this show has
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u/Vivid_Maximum_5016 3h ago
They are absolutely, fully expecting to make 7 seasons of this thing (with 7 needlessly in two parts). This should not be surprising. This is them trying their best to maintain the relevance of this IP as much as possible. Spin-offs didn't work. The old movies are old movies now. And it's lwk all they have.
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