Did J. K. Rowling transform Voldemort?
Well, the backlash against the Harry Potter creator is a growing pain of her fandom.
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not
realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
– Thomas A. Edison
Finally, almost 2 decades later she was ready to admit that she was the world’s most annoying teenager. Her parents were Catholic and she used to delight in peppering them with trollish questions, preferably several hours into a long car journey. “Why does the Mass service refer to God as ‘he’ and ‘father’?” was the majestic.
Her parents humored her, but predictably, she didn’t find their responses satisfying. Soon realizing that her omniscient parents are, in fact, just regular, flawed human is a vital part of growing up. So is learning that their values are different from yours that they are products of a particular time and place. Gradually, her ideas and beliefs that they accepted without question made no sense to her, and vice versa.
She was proud to call herself an Atheist. Religion was nothing but a tool of patriarchal oppression.
According to her thesis, younger millennials were born around 1990, and at the same time as Harry Potter’s lead actors, Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson felt strongly about transgender rights. To many of them, it was just the social-justice cause, their generation’s revolutionary idea.
But they saw a little difference between the objections of some older left-wing feminists to the idea that individuals alone decide their gender, and those of social conservatives: Both groups are reactionary, trapped in outdated concepts of what it means to be a man or a woman.
And Millennials who dominated the Harry Potter fandom, a community large enough to have spawned 100 of thousands of pieces of fan fiction. Unsurprisingly that 2 major fan sites, The Leaky Cauldron and MuggleNet, have distanced themselves from the books’ Author, J. K. Rowling after she argued last month that “Woman” should remain a biological category.
Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings.
-Cheris Kramare
