Posted on 08/31/2022 7:43:47 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
There are few people that those on the woke left hate more than J.K Rowling. The Harry Potter author has become one of the left’s favorite punching bags due to her unwillingness to bend the knee to the transgender activist community.
Rowling refuses to say that women and men are interchangeable and is a fierce advocate for protecting women from the socio-political forces that seek to replace them with confused men. Naturally, this has caused a firestorm of undeserved hatred to fly her way, including demands that anything to do with the wizarding world be shunned and boycotted.
Hilariously, this group of people has been ignored by the rest of the world and Rowling continues to watch products with her name on them fly out the door, with piles of cash growing around her.
Case in point, the widely anticipated game “Hogwarts Legacy,” due out early next year, had opened up pre-orders for its collector’s edition. This pre-order comes with extra digital content, a physical copy of the game in a steel case, and a magic wand that floats on top of a recreation of a spell book. For mega fans of Harry Potter and the game itself, it’s a must-have for collectors.
And they must have wanted it hard enough because the edition sold out instantly. Now, if you want one you’ll have to go through scalpers who have now doubled the price.
As culture site Dexerto noted, this was done in spite of the transgender activist community pushing guilt and shame on people who actually went in for the collector’s edition.
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Rowling thought she had a huge good Will bank account with the woke mob when she declared Dumbledore was gay. Boy was she wrong. Say one thing the crazy bastards don’t like and you are finished.
I stopped watching midway through the 2nd Harry Potter movie. After enjoying the 1st movie, I lost interest in the direction it was going. But apparently millions of others didn’t lose interest and are still spending money on the franchise despite the woke crowd.
I enjoyed the later ones much more. The first two were my least favorite by far
Yup - always someone woker
It was pretty brilliant the way the films and books matured with the core consumers.
Exactly my reaction too. First Harry Potter was wonderful, second was a bust.
The later movies are quite good, and far more serious. They changed directors for the third and onwards, and the tone is very different. I recommend checking them out.
The movies are OK, but the books are far better, and the unabridged audio books, read by Jim Dale, are excellent.
The later books and movies are written for an older audience, and in fact the later few books are really not suitable for younger readers that the earliest books were written for.
The thing about the movies is that they were cast amazingly well. I was not a fan of the replacement actor they found for Dumbeldore, but the fact is, the original Dumbeldore actor, Richard Harris, was absolutely PERFECT for the role, and the replacement actor, Michael Gambon, a fine actor, simply wasn’t as good. But Robbie Coltrane as Hagrid, Maggie Smith as Professor McGonagall and Alan Rickman as Professor Snape were really excellent choices.
Mark
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