I’ve seen people talk about actors and artists that had a terrible time.
My own would be Anne Rice. She wrote Interview with the Vampire after her young daughter died of Leukemia. Then her husband suddenly died of a brain hemorrhage. I suspect her Christian, anti-fanfic phase was a result of mental illness and manipulation from the publishers, although I don’t think she ever apologized.
For those of us who grew up with her books and don’t identify with our birth gender it does. Harry Potter was an escape for us because we were weird, didn’t fit in and had complicated feelings we didn’t know how to put into words. Now it is so tainted because we know we wouldn’t have been accepted there either. I loved the books and now it just hurts.
As another commentor said, there are trans chars in the new hp game. You can even play as a trans character. You can separate the art and the artist
The game in my opinion is different as yeah it was made for the world she made but it wasn’t made by her. The books are just different, but those are my thoughts on the whole thing.
Because of this whole thread and convo, I went and looked up the HP walking tours in Edinburgh. The Potter Trail is the second result and they put a notice on their website that they stand with trans people.
I think her actions are kind of revealing who in the fandom actually genuinely believes in acceptance and love, and who is just blindly following her because they’ve put her on a pedestal.
Not sure how to end this reply, actually. I want to say something reassuring like “you matter” or “I’m glad you exist” but that’s probably… weird. I wish that no one had to experience the kind of hurt that comes with losing something that comforted them through their worst times.