I understand *why* people are saying that Harry Potter has no author and that Daniel Radcliffe went to Mount Sinai and found the stories etched onto stone tablets, but I really don't feel like it's a productive way of responding to a deeply bigoted creator.

I feel like 2 things are at play here.
1) JK Rowling has made herself synonymous with Harry Potter, she looked at the idea of Death of The Author and said "Sorry Roland I simply do not buy that". She *is* The Potterverse.

And this brings me to my 2nd point.
2) Ignoring the JK Rowling of it all stops us engaging with uncomfortable things in the series that... I don't wanna call them clues, but things that... make sense with everything brought to light about Jaren Karen Rowling.

I truly believe that no media is above critique and everything is problematic depending on how you look at it, and we need to see those problems, contextualise them, and face them to actually do better.

Yes, you could say that the Harry Potter series was found floating in The River Nile in a basket, and you have every right to do so! I just feel like facing the awkwardness of characters like, Fenrir Greyback, or The House Elves, or Goblins etc is better in the long run

Like... I am deeply aware that a *lot* of musical theatre needs to have a word with itself in regards to how Black people are represented on stage. But if we look at the problems, they are likely to be amended in future pieces/stagings (I would hope)

I get that this comparison isn't exactly 1:1 too because of how violent Joanne Koanne's bigotry is, but we can't divorce her own ideology and mindsets from her work. She has made that impossible imo.

Gotta take the bull by the horns with this one!

Or don't, I'm not ur Mom