I was literally looking for good books on both cannibalism and the french revolution last year and couldn’t find what I wanted, and these sound exactly right. I eventually gave up, but better late than never.

I also figured out who the killer was, but I honestly never felt that any of the other characters were developed enough to be a plausible alternative; the only other option was >!the wife, or possibly if the daughter had done it accidentally or something, but I can’t see JKR writing something like that because of the social implications.!<

I’m on a 30s kick at the moment, I will definitely try to get this.

No idea, but it was covered in the news as unwelcome intruders, so not part of the tour.

I wish I had a book fair like that near me, I would always go. Although, I live in London, it’s a big place, there probably is one and I’ve just never heard of it. I’ll have to look.

I definitely think this is part of it!

I’ve not heard of anyone targeting her family, but I wouldn’t exactly be surprised. I think because of her recognisability the internet is probably her main source of new / fresh social contact now and so it’s a self-reinforcing problem.

Again, mostly agree, although I would argue that it does impact her life to fear trans people when again, they turn up where she lives. That is not going to convince anyone to support you or change their mind.

I totally agree with you, but I don’t agree that she couldn’t get better given the space and time to do so, it’s just that genuinely giving her privacy and space is impossible in the age of social media, globalisation, etc.

I think people forget that where she is now isn’t where she started, where she is now has been psychologically reinforced over and over again by the things I’ve mentioned, and that where she started is only just over 3 years ago - it seems much longer bc it was covid years. 3 years is not a lot in a lifetime over otherwise being a kind and almost uniquely generous person.

If somehow her circumstances could change, I think she could change.

I mean. There’s a lot of space between ‘not being the bigger person’ and ‘not being polite’ and ‘sending someone rape and death threats’ and an incredibly frustrating part of this whole conversation is that they are treated as if they are basically the same thing. I am impolite all the time yet I never threaten anybody.

Also, again, she can go offline but people have turned up where she lives, on several occaisions.

Controversial take, but I think people underestimate how bad the backlash was to her original essay and how that might have affected her psychologically, combined with the fact that that that has never stopped happening since. I’m not saying there shouldn’t have been backlash, I mean that people underestimate how much of it is and always has been rape and death threats, which is not a genuine expression of upset at someone’s political views, it’s because you want to send someone rape and death threats.

There was also the ickabog, where people sent porn, and child porn, to a tag being used by children + parents to post children’s drawings - that’s not a genuine expression of political dissent either, that’s because you want to try and inflict porn on children and make it her problem at the same time.

I don’t think anyone should be like, “Well, if I was receiving rape and death threats every day, I would simply just brush them off and be cool about it.”

People have literally turned up her house / castle - she doesn’t and you don’t know that those aren’t the same people sending or planning the threats.

Her original essay was mostly focused on Keira Bell, who is a detransitioner who genuinely felt that she shouldn’t have been allowed to transition, and who I think is the only trans (or ex-trans) person JKR had probably personally met upon writing the essay, outside of stuff on the internet, and the response should have been, “one person’s regret doesn’t represent everybody” not “let’s tell her we want to decapitate her” - which people did, many people did, because I saw them.

She’s not going to get better until she literally stops being threatened. Q boomers are imagining threats, but she is literally receiving them on a regular basis, due to being a massive public figure.

I love both but I don’t know that I would have ever put them together myself, thank you so much!!

Honestly feels before her time? Incredibly sad either way.