Can you love the Creation and not the Creator?

I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about this in the wake of JKR’s harmful comments about transgender people. Since that first supposedly ‘clumsy’ moment, I’ve stopped financially supporting the Harry Potter franchise but as JKR’s statements have become increasingly explicit and direct, I want to talk on this further in case it is helpful to people struggling with the same question.

Before I get into it, I want to make it very clear that thoughts on whether you can ‘love the creation and not the creator’ or whether you feel comfy continuing to create in HP fandom are clearly not the pressing issues with JKR’s statements. There is a narrative developing in the UK that has been around for a long time and it is getting ever more dangerous for transgender people the more powerful ‘voices of reason’ speak out against any meaningful gender reform. I will be dropping links at the end of this post for places to donate and offer your time to if you wish.

However, there are many trans allies, queer people and trans people within HP fandom and to ignore that also does a great disservice to the fandom and I wanted to put some thoughts down on that which are my opinions only.

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albus severus potter, you were named after two men who taught me how difficult it is to distinguish between good and evil, because every human being has the capacity for both inside themselves. i spent my life idolizing one and vilifying the other, but it wasn’t until i was older that i realized the enormity of the choices they were forced to make and the guilt and regret they carried with them their whole lives. they were both like me, ambitious and stubborn and lost, but they devoted their whole lives to protecting me, and i’ll forever be grateful for that. without them, you would never have been born, and if there’s one thing i want you to remember, it’s that you are always capable of selflessness and bravery, even when it seems impossible, because they were. they were not perfect people, but they were stronger than i ever knew, and they taught me that the choices you make, however small, however misguided, matter. they matter after you’re gone. they matter to the world you want to change, and making the right choice after you’ve made the wrong one, hard as it is, is how we grow. so remember that. be brave, albus severus. you don’t have to be a gryffindor to know what that means.

wow.

controversial: I don’t hate the name?