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Jay Covitz's avatar

Harry Potter came out when I was in my twenties. I used to see people on the T in Boston reading it all the time and thought, “I can’t believe these adults are reading a children’s book. They need to get a life.”

Now I have children and have read the entire series and realize how wrong I was. As noted in the article, if you want your kids to learn about the qualities that make for a good person, read Harry Potter (and the James Harriot series). JK Rowling is an inspiration.

The thing that bothers me the most are the ungrateful assholes who starred in the movies and now try and distance themselves from Rowling. They only reason anyone know who the hell you are is because of Rowling. You should have shrines set up to her in all of your houses.

Fun fact- did you know Emma Watson loves children so much she sits on the board of the parent company of Balenciaga? Big fan of kids she is...

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Peggy Wilkes's avatar

Exactly!

I love “nutpicks!”

The stars, who are only stars bc Rowling wrote an amazing series, are garbage. Where’s their courage that they showed as the characters in the books? Where is their acceptance of other people’s opinions? They tempered their response to see if they were accepted by what they perceived as “the right group!” What about all of their fans??

I think they will end up on the wrong side of this ultimately. Not sure when things will turn back to intelligent thinking.

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Mara U.'s avatar

I seriously think that Emma Watson was cast as Hermione at an impressionable time in her psychological development, and somehow all those hours playing Hermione convinced her that she's smarter than she actually is. She's a pretty mediocre actress, too, though not as godawful as some of her detractors would have one believe.

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Timothy Kaluhiokalani's avatar

“The thing that bothers me the most are the ungrateful assholes who starred in the movies and now try and distance themselves from Rowling”

Well, they are actors. Most of them have about as much depth and imagination as a single, blank sheet of paper. For most of them, qualities like integrity, courage and loyalty are simply concepts written on a script.

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Christine's avatar

I agree Tim. Especially the weenie who played HP.

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Rich Smith's avatar

The only possible excuse, not that it’s a good one, is that as actors, their livelihoods depend directly on how people perceive them. They all have agents, and probably have public relations teams whose entire job is to figure out situations like this. If I had to guess, they were advised or told by their staff to publicly deny support for J K Rowling to maintain their careers and popularity. They are still young and have much of their careers ahead of them, and so the pressure to follow that advice must be enormous.

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AlabamaSlamma's avatar

From being around musicians, I concur that most of them have only a very shallow knowledge of politics. The bulk of their opinions comes from what their peer group tells them. Few of them spend any time doing their own research. It is what it is. Most artists have to bust their tails to make a living, and they don't have much time for anything else. However, it is still true that one should, in general, refrain from making grand pronouncements about subjects of which one knows nothing.

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DeirdreM.'s avatar

Does anyone have integrity anymore? Sad. I find fewer and fewer people willing to stand up against the Powers that Be (the extreme right or the extreme left).

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Jeff Cunningham's avatar

It's a little easier when you have financial independence.

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Lynne Morris's avatar

True, but it also requires a backbone.

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Jeff Cunningham's avatar

Indeed. It does indeed. I am full of admiration for her. I was thinking of those who cannot afford to have such backbones.

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Lynne Morris's avatar

I sympathize, very much, with those who would have to pay a high price. But what any of us cannot afford is to not have a backbone. Think of the price those who fought and died for the creation of the nation paid. Or the price those who have fought and died for her preservation have paid.

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DeirdreM.'s avatar

True, unfortunately.

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bestuvall's avatar

nothing more true than the ad for pepsi on the super bowl about "acting"

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Jeff Cunningham's avatar

And if they want to keep working they have to virtue signal like all the others. They are basically whores in the broad sense. My apologies to the real profession. And I suspect that to portray the kinds of graphic sex acts they so routinely do in movies these days they are in fact literal prostitutes as well.

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Kevin Durant?'s avatar

“Emma Watson loves children so much she sits on the board of the parent company of Balenciaga”

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Nothing will ever top John Cena apologizing to China.

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Bruce Miller's avatar

Big bad LeBron on his knees before Xi Jinping? Jamie Dimon's servile apology? Disney's editing to please the Chi Com censors? Jiao Bideng taking their laundered cash? Oh, no, Cena has plenty of competition.

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Sophia's avatar

Irrelevant.

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Bruce Miller's avatar

Is that a self-proclamation?

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Mike Eyre's avatar

"Jiao Bideng" is hilarious.

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Kevin Durant?'s avatar

It’s even better because Jiao is an actual Chinese word for 1/10th Yuan and it works perfectly with 10% for the Big Guy

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Sophia's avatar

Irrelevant.

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Jack Sant's avatar

There are tens of billions of dollars at stake. You're damn right they're going to apologize for whatever they're told to apologize for. They did everything but lie prostrate in sackcloth and ashes.

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