In case you missed it, JK Rowling's new remake of the classic Harry Potter movies, now in the form of an HBO series, is actually getting made despite Rowling's concerted efforts to do absolutely everything she possibly can to torpedo her own legacy. Even outside of her plain monstrousness to everyone who might not want every single trans person to die, the black mold eating her brain has quite evidently affected her writing as well.
You may recall her last foray into the Wizarding World, the Fantastic Beasts series, was canned three movies into a planned five-movie arc thanks to their nonsensical plot and abysmal box office performance. With Rowling herself now completely toxic and her franchise failing to do any real numbers anymore, you'd think that'd be the end for her Hollywood prospects. Not so, apparently. The answer HBO has come up with to the question of how to squeeze more money out of a toxic franchise seems to have been "remake the original stories to get nostalgia bucks from the 40-year olds who insist they're allies even as they directly contribute to JK's anti-trans lobbying."
Oh, and casting some cute kids.
If you're considering watching this series: Don't. Plain and simple. "Oh, but I just have so much attachment to the story-" Shut up! Read another book! There are millions of them! If you have been informed that JK Rowling is a massive bigot who is using her Harry Potter royalties to fund and further institutionalized transphobia, then you are part of that problem if you continue to give her money. You are not passively observing harm, you are actively causing it. If you wouldn't donate to the Westboro Baptist Church, then do not spend money on Harry Potter anything.
Okay? Read Twilight or something if you absolutely have to engage with bad YA fiction as an adult. Don't whine to me or any other queer person about the "magic" of the series, because unlike Wingardium Leviosa, the widespread harm Rowling is causing is real.
A Trans Wizard Harriet Porber adaptation, on the other hand, would be a whole different story.
