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James ๐ŸŒˆ๐Ÿ’œ · 15w
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@nprofile1q... my point is that people hating on Hogwarts because they don't like the creator are utterly missing the point. It's a great argument for the Death of the Author approach to literary criticism.

I haven't read the Harry Potter novels, but the Hogwarts I was introduced to in the movies seems like a place that would welcome trans students with open arms, and use their preferred pronouns without blinking an eyelid. Can you really see Professor Dumbledore tolerating any less?
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Strypey · 15w
(2/2) Leaning into this, and appropriating Hogwarts as a symbol of trans inclusion (and radical inclusion in general) would be a far more effective way to annoy the creator than condemning a rich literary world as guilty by association. It would also avoid unnecessarily alienating fans of the Harry...