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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone premiered twenty years ago. I remember it; I saw it on my seventh birthday. My mom thought the preview looked a little scary so she read the book to me first. And when she finished, I read it by myself again. I loved it then and I loved it for years.
Which is why it’s so hard that JK Rowling turned out to be transphobic, and that the books have a lot of not-so-great stuff in them.
Sometimes people on the internet talk about how we need to hurry up and get over it. It’s been a year and a half, they say. Stop loving something created by someone so terrible. But how do you erase twenty-two years of loving something in just a year and a half? And what does it mean that supporting HP means not only supporting JL Rowling, but a lot of people who /aren’t/ transphobic too?
It’s terrible for a sacred childhood thing to turn rotten, and I think this issue is a lot more complex than some people make it out to be.