(Although making Nagini into an *Asian* human in particular was kinda racist) But no, there's been a steady buildup of annoyance at JKR for a while now, and an ongoing backlash to the books' outsize popularity ("Read another book!" is a meme about it)
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For me it started with Goblet of Fire, when Hermione being appalled at the treatment of house elves was treated as a joke, and it just got worse from there as the characters continued to be unlikable people making bad decisions and never changed. Also:https://twitter.com/AmeliaRoseWrite/status/1280353342560956416?s=20 …
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Amelia Bloody Rose @AmeliaRoseWriteReplying to @UrsulaV @ZREllorI have a special resentment for the way bookstores slapped "Like Harry Potter? Try these!" onto authors like Tamora Pierce, Diane Duane, Jane Yolen, etc. I know, I know, most kids weren't like me and were new to this, but HOW DARE THEY IMPLY THE GRANDES DAMES ARE CHEAP KNOCKOFFS3 replies 6 retweets 65 likes -
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Yes, I don't think people appreciate that the backlash to JKR from *within the fantasy genre* is very old and has been there a long time A backlash that exists precisely because most mainstream commentators just ignore the genre community and see Harry Potter as sui generis
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I mean this happens all the time Margaret Atwood caught a lot of shit for basically refusing to acknowledge that The Handmaid's Tale does, in fact, "count" as a science fiction book
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And that there are many feminist dystopias by women authors like it that were sold as science fiction in stores and never broke out of that box but for various, mostly arbitrary reasons Atwood got that mainstream literary cred
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I think this is unfortunately normal - it's how the concept of the "genre ghetto" works, and it's not really Atwood's fault, and it's kind of a waste of time to get mad about it But Rowling really was a particularly bad case
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As someone who really benefited from people thinking she somehow invented the concept of "wizard school", who almost certainly did in fact crib ideas from previous "wizard school" books, and yet resolutely pretended on interviews that she'd only ever read Shakespeare and Austen
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Pfffft what? She seriously did that? That's like... 16 year old not wanting to admit they cribbed ideas for their fanfics from popular TV shows level of pathetic omg. Like... you heard of 'The Worst Witch' before JK, you aren't fooling anyone.
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The amount of cribbing JKR did from "The Worst Witch" could literally fill volumes, and did.
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I don't even really care if she did or didn't - obviously her take on it resonated with people for some reason so whatever. It's the pretending not to know about it that I'm like, "Are you fucking kidding me?"
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Oh yeah she has never once admitted to even having seen any of the things people are pretty sure she was inspired by Not Ursula K Le Guin's Earthsea, not Diana Wynne Jones' Chrestomanci, not Jill Murphy's Worst Witch, not Neil Gaiman's Books of Magic
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And that's serious knock on her. Most writers can rattle off a half-dozen contemporary or near-contemporary writers who were influences, and are thrilled to do it, because the best writers are voracious readers.
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