Eddie Redmayne dans “Les Animaux Fantastiques 2 : Les Crimes de Grindelwald" de David Yates (2022) - d'après le roman éponyme de J. K. Rowling (2001) - mars 2026.
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“Les Animaux Fantastiques 2 : Les Crimes de Grindelwald" de David Yates (2022) - d'après le roman éponyme de J. K. Rowling (2001) - mars 2026.
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“Les Animaux Fantastiques 2 : Les Crimes de Grindelwald" de David Yates (2022) - d'après le roman éponyme de J. K. Rowling (2001) - mars 2026.
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The Adaptable Educator’s Book-Play Review - Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J.K. Rowling
Few contemporary literary phenomena invite as fierce and persistent a blend of affection and suspicion as the continuation of a beloved series. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is both an answer to that appetite and a provocation: not a conventional “next book” but a stage play whose text functions as a script, a dramatized sequel, and a piece of authorized fan-fiction all at once. Read as…
The Adaptable Educator’s Book-Play Review - Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J.K. Rowling
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The Adaptable Educator’s Screenplay Review - Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore by J.K. Rowling
J. K. Rowling’s name on a spine still summons an array of readerly habits: eager return to a familiar lexicon of enchantments, a hunger for mythic scaffolding, and a readiness to re-enter a world where moral categories are usually luminous and legible. The published Complete Screenplay for The Secrets of Dumbledore, co-credited to screenwriter Steve Kloves and issued as a companion object to…
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The Adaptable Educator’s Screenplay Review - Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by J.K. Rowling
At first glance Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them wears the comfortable disguise of a familiar schoolroom text: a slim compendium of creatures, their habitats, and their hazard ratings, presented as a textbook used within the fictional world of Harry Potter. Read more carefully, however, and Rowling’s faux-field guide becomes a clever literary performance — a pastiche of natural history, a…
The Adaptable Educator’s Screenplay Review - Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by J.K. Rowling
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I am extremely tired of the Harry Potter Fandom. What else’s do Rowling have to before they disown the franchise. Every dollar spent on official HP merch funds her awful crusades. She doesn’t even pretend to be a good person.
I understand it was a part of huge amount of people’s childhood and that’s OK. It’s OK to move on and enjoy other stuff. It’s OK to realise that some things you used to like is kinda bad or problematic. There is so much more out there waiting to be found, enjoyed, and celebrated.
Stop supporting Harry Potter and JK Rowling.
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If you’re a Harry Potter fan in 2026 I automatically don’t trust you. And don’t come at me with your “But I’m only part of the Marauders fandom, it’s mostly fan created and queer inclusive. I only buy second hand or fanmade merch” shut up. Just shut up. You know who owns the franchise and you know how publicity works and by consuming even the smallest part of it you’re taking part in keeping something alive that acitvely helps fund hate politics. You know what R*wling does. I don’t care what Harry Potter was for you as a child. Your nostalgia isn’t more important than literal people’s lives. Leave it behind, for once and for all, for heaven’s sake.
Besides, Harry Potter isn’t even a well written universe, but that’s a different story.
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Let’s not forget when Cho was treated like a traitor just because she chose to defend her friend (being the ultimate girls’ girl, a goddess, honestly, thank you Cho for so much, and I’m sorry for all the mistreatment) over a boy and even over political duty, exactly what a real girl would do, because friends come first, even when they mess up. But instead of being portrayed as the boss she is, Rowling paints her as a whiny, immature traitor.
Fleur is only respected by “the cool girls in the story” once she stops being herself and becomes a housewife who lives entirely for her husband. Basically, for Rowling, everything revolves around male validation: you’re only intelligent and brave if your friends are boys, because if your friends are girls, then you’re shallow, superficial, and a gossip. You’re only “cool and popular in a good way” if you’re admired for the same reasons a boy would be, and if they think you’re cool and popular, it doesn’t matter what the girls think.
And above all, every female character who’s treated positively is filtered through purely masculinized gender standards. Their “virtues” are virtues from a male perspective based on what men like, find attractive, or consider “worthy” in a woman. Every teenage girl or young woman who doesn’t perform a kind of femininity that’s acceptable to or built around the male gaze’s approval is ridiculed, diminished, or treated horribly by the narrative. Rowling hates women, and it’s honestly not surprising that she didn’t have female friends in school. The problem wasn’t the others; the problem was her.
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I’ve talked about this many times: Rowling only conceives of female validation through motherhood, and she portrays motherhood as the greatest value a woman can offer the world. Moreover, her idea of motherhood is basically the patriarchal ideal of the self-sacrificing mother who must be exemplary and give everything for her children without thinking of herself first.
In other words, you can’t be a good woman unless you’re a mother, and you can’t be a good mother unless you completely give up your own life and submit yourself to your children. Rowling clearly has an issue with women who don’t need male validation and with those who don’t confine themselves to a traditional maternal role.
That is, she doesn’t like women who choose not to be mothers because they have other ambitions, but she also doesn’t like mothers who don’t fit the trope of the self-sacrificing Madonna. She has a mindset very much aligned with the traditional ideal of womanhood held by the most conservative sectors, it’s no wonder she dislikes certain groups that flush those ideals down the toilet.
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Rowling wanted to create an oppressed group with the muggle-borns in general, but she did a terrible job of it. If she wanted to portray them as the lowest in society and the potential target of discrimination, she should’ve made them less privileged because even Squibs have fewer privileges than they do, despite coming from pure-blood families, for example. They face discrimination among the social elite, but that’s not systemic or structural oppression. The problem is that Rowling has no clue about class issues because she’s always been a posh liberal kid, and posh liberal kids have a pretty distorted view of reality. For them, oppression is having to take public transport lol.
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As much as I despise JK Rowling, I will always and forever love the world of Harry Potter.
Hallmark released several Harry Potter ornaments for the Christmas season, and my mom sent me a bunch of screen shots of what was available and told me to pick two. I saw Hagrid’s Hut, and I saw Hagrid, and I immediately told her I wanted those two, especially since Robbie Coltrane is no longer alive. And then something unexpected happened. I started to cry.
I never really realized how closely I had held Hagrid to my heart until I saw the ornaments, and I remember Coltrane saying on the reunion special, “The legacy of the movies is, I suspect, that my children’s generation will show them to their children. So you could be watching it in 50 years’ time, easy. I’ll not be here, sadly, but… But Hagrid will, yes.” And if there was anything I wish I could change about the books, it’s that Hagrid would have gotten a different ending: that Harry would have named one of his kids Rubeus, or that Hagrid had played a bigger role in Harry’s later life. Hagrid was a father figure and had always been there for Harry every step of the way, and I think he really got the short end of the stick.
I am not a fan of Rowling. But I’m not going to sit here and pretend that the world of Harry Potter didn’t get me through my toughest years of middle school, or that watching the films didn’t make me believe that good can and will always conquer evil. Every. Single. Time.
These ornaments are a big deal to me. It is my way of keeping Robbie Coltrane alive. It is my way of honoring the big, bearded animal lover and gardener. And it is my way of keeping the best parts of my childhood around for years to come.
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Another thing people keep getting wrong is when they say Rowling has a rift about trans rights. No, the fight is about women’s rights and women’s protections, you just don’t want to say it because you don’t want to admit you don’t give a shit about women.
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Everyone who say they cannot let go of Harry Potter and fully boycott Rowling
You know…. My whole town (200k people) managed to do that!
We used to have a Harry Potter Festival during the national harvest vacation. There were all kinds of stuff, quiddich tournaments, exchange money to HP money in the bank, make your own wand, people dressed up as figures from the books, show your house colours etc. And they even got the cathedral to play the theme melody every hour.
Then rowling and her croonies went after the city and asked for money. (There was no money, because everything is mainly volunteering or small creatives selling their art. We do a lot of volunteer work in Denmark.)
Did everyone bow down and say that Harry Potter was too important to stop?
No! Of course not.
We don’t need Harry Potter.
Now it’s called Magic Days.
It’s filled with local/national folklore instead. Local trolls and Elffolk, old stories about local witch craft and rune magic, local spellbooks, potions and herbs that we have stories about from the last 500 years. You can get your magic element alignment, if you want house colours. There’s unicorn riding tounaments and live rollplayers and viking and medieval reenactors dressed up and acting out whatever they want.
We don’t need harry potter.
You don’t need harry potter. Do better.
(It’s in week 42, everyone’s welcome, most of the events are free, but some you have to pay for materials or to reserve a space )
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I didn’t have JK Rowling quoting Hitler on my 2025 bingo card, but here we are, apparently.
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I love putting “rowling” as one of my filtered out words in general on tumblr because I don’t want to see anything about that woman or that book series, ever, seriously, please stop showing it to me
And then getting very confused by a “filtered content” on something I KNOW isn’t about her and realizing tumblr has hidden so many posts from me because the word “growling” technically names the horrid hag of the British Isle
