Discussion about Rowling aside, I'm amazed by the cultural impact that Harry Potter had in political activism.
At the protest i saw a lot of signs using harry potter language to express political messages and even a guy cosplaying as harry.
Ignoring the part that is shitty, the " students fighting facism" part resonates hard with our reality. There are also certain similarities in our local history that make people appropiate Harry Potter associating it with powerfull political messages.
After all, in Argentina we had a generation in the 70's to early 80's killed by a facist regime like the generation of Harry's parents.
#this shows why despite its creator is awfull hp won't just dissapear#some appropiations of it are actually fascinating#first world discourse people would find it unaceptable#but people here have made it theirs in unapologetically leftist ways#similar case are the simpsons#or even spiderman#in argentina this characters have became simbols#and disney profiting of the newest spiderman movies or rowling being a terf doesn't stop people#from doing a powerfull use of the messages they find in those stories#globalization and cultural imperialism brought us those characters#but people have transformed them into resistance messages#politics#harry potter