She was one of the world’s most prominent victims of cancel culture. Now it seems that J.K. Rowling is uncancelling herself. Some fans reckon a comeback is evidenced by her prominent role in the franchise’s upcoming return to screens with a new television show. The announcement of Rowling as Executive Producer has nonetheless sparked outrage in some corners.
The Telegraph has the story.
“I’m looking forward to being part of this new adaptation, which will allow for a degree of depth and detail only afforded by a long form television series,” the author said.
A few years ago, Rowling’s involvement in the project would hardly have come as a shock.
But the decision to involve the British author – and so publicly – marks a significant shift in tone.
Amid a backlash against her views on women’s rights and transgenderism, even mentioning Rowling’s name next to her works has been taboo in recent years.
At one event to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone last June, a journalist was infamously blocked from asking a question about her absence.
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I sincerely hope she isn’t ‘back’.
She’s responsible for turning a whole generation to witchcraft dressed up as children’s tales. The spat between wokism and whichcraft is a distraction.
The result? Rebellion, mental illness, depression.
Do an Acts 19.19.
Erm, it’s fiction, NeilofWatford. I’m not a fan of Harry Potter, but it is just fiction. A bit of fun. It’s hardly devil worship.
I wonder if the downvoters are “keen Christians”…
I get your point, but so is Marxism.
Your point is that ideas are nothing (neither good nor bad) without action. I agree.
Actually Marcus I was trying to agree with that Harry Potter isn’t devil worship, so I don’t think my initial response was well thought through. Marxism could be considered devil worship and definitely encourages action and has been acted on. Harry Potter is exactly as you say – fiction, and it should be clear that J. K. Rowling is not extolling the virtues of witch craft – that should be clear.
Gosh. I’ve read the books and seen the films and what I got from them was the importance of friendship, the true meaning of family and suffering, loss and adversity as inevitable parts of growth and maturity. Much more appropriate and dare I say healthy for growing kids and teens than all the trans activist gender ideology and hypersexualisation currently being shoved in their faces – literally as well as metaphorically – and the Net Zero nihilism which is causing far more mental health disturbance than an elder wand.
FWIW, the juvenile interest in witchcraft has always been a thing – I was a fan of Bewitched back in the 60s, and remember friends tinkering with ouija boards even then. In terms of modern media influence, the TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer predates Potter by several years, and the highly popular Charmed was concurrent with publication of the first Potter book (1997), not the film (2001).
Go for it, JK! Never explain, never apologise, never forget.
JK rocks. Can you imagine what a dynamic duo her and Posie Parker would make if they teamed up? If you’re getting cancelled, mobbed and splattered with various condiments you know you’re on the right side of this Woketard shitshow cult.
Hear, hear.
Will the down voters have the courage to come out of hiding and give a good argument as to why Mogwai is wrong?
Perhaps she was cancelled in the particle like brains of some spores in the twittersphere, but reality is a totally different concept. Case in point look at the sales of the recent Harry Potter computer game.
I’m still waiting for this “trans genocide” they keep talking about to actually happen – it doesn’t seem to be real, though
The only people who seem to be genocidal are the trans activists. After one of their lot killed a bunch of Catholic kids, the activists pretty much said that if we keep resisting them this will keep on happening.
Trangenderism – the philosophy, not the human beings – needs purging from our society, never to return.
Dom, could you explain “transgenderism – the philosophy” please?
There’s a good article on the philosophy of trangenderism, and its focus on children here:
https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-real-story-behind-drag-queen-story-hour
Whether it’s pulling together individual strands of cultural leftism over the years to present something more threatening than the reality is open to debate, but it’s an interesting read.
While I disagree with many things JK Rowling advocates – including bailing out the bankrupt Labour Party – she created a character in Harry Potter that everyone loved in a hybrid of Enid Blyton, Roald Dahl and Jill Murphy. Speaking as a Catholic, I have no issue with the witchcraft elements – it’s all great imaginative fun and manages a fabulous balance of light and dark.
I don’t think Rowling was ever all that much cancelled. Twatter is full of gobby halfwits who make a lot of noise in cyberspace, but are a bunch of intellectually vapid, often mentally ill, morons in the real world. No wonder the mediocre actors her books made famous have panicked and turned their backs on the reason they’re famous. The reason Rowling was perceived as cancelled was simply that too many people in the media and our institutions still believe cyberspace is the real world.
I don’t know anyone who has a problem with Rowling. With luck she’ll be involved in the new series on all levels. She managed to keep the films faithful to the books and a TV series could be great, particularly for The Order of the Phoenix, which is probably my favourite of the books and had to be slashed down for the (still excellent) movie.
“too many people in the media and our institutions still believe cyberspace is the real world.”
Agreed, but it does cause a lot of hysteria which then spills into the real world – either accidentally or by design. See C1984.
Another example of how only one point of view is allowed.