When I first read Harry Potter I was 11 years old. Since then Hogwarts and Harry Potter characters have been part of many of the most important moments of my life. When my niece Julia was born, I was rereading that first book of harry potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. In my first big job came out Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. And that’s if we’re just talking about the books.
With the harry potter movies (which you can see in HBO Max) I have experienced moments that have gone from 24-hour marathons at the movies with my best friends to sad afternoons at home after a bad day, to sleepless nights with my nieces, talking about Luna Lovegood or how great Hermione is Granger. I’m such a fan that I have a golden snitch tattooed on my forearm and in my library there is a section just for the harry potter books with figures and magic wands.
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That’s why listening to how JK Rowling made some transphobic statements on her Twitter account, without caring that her entire magical universe has been part of the imagination of millions of children, made me tremendously sad. In all that world of fans, surely there was some potterhead that, when looking in the mirror, he did not see himself identified with the gender that had been assigned to him at birth. Isn’t there room for everyone in magic?
Some say that you have to separate the art from the artist, something complicated when an author is as tied to his work as JK Rowling is. But if we talk about the new video game Hogwarts Legacy, which will be released on February 10Yes, we can see how they themselves have distanced themselves from the thoughts of the creator of Harry Potter.
The blow at the table of the creators of the Hogwarts Legacy
We put you in context. The open world created by Avalanche Software is not something JK Rowling was involved in, as they explain to us from Vida Extra. Is set a hundred years before Harry’s birth and a few decades before the Fantastic Beasts saga. The game’s own website explains it:
JK Rowling was not involved in the creation of this game, but she is the creator of the wizarding world and one of the world’s greatest writers whose extraordinary literary work serves as the foundation for all Wizarding World projects. This story is not a new work by JK Rowling, but we have worked closely with her team on all aspects of the game to ensure it is in line with the wizarding world experiences fans expect to see.
Okay, so why is the video game getting review bombing? Due to the comments that this lady has made since 2020, the first of these of this caliber and positioning her as TERF:
‘People who menstruate.’ I’m sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?
Opinion: Creating a more equal post-COVID-19 world for people who menstruate https://t.co/cVpZxG7gaA
—JK Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 6, 2020
But what the creators of the video game are clear about is that what JK Rowling thinks is not what they think, and they have decided to hit the table that has amazed us and that includes a tremendously important character in the story (save the protagonists), who is transsexual. She is about the owner of the Hogsmade tavern “The Three Broomsticks”, Sirona Ryan, who during this conversation reveals that she was a wizard before and not a witch as she is now.
Hogwarts Legacy has a trans character in the game. In fact, our character can be a wizard/witch regardless of his physique or tone of voice that we choose.
I think this makes it clear that the ideology of the people who have worked on this game differs quite a bit from JK Rowling. pic.twitter.com/ZzbQARrPvY
— The Bit Analyst (@analistadebits) February 6, 2023
And the game goes further. When we create the character, a student like Harry, Ron and Hermione were, he will have the shape, look and gender you want, without the need to be defined as male or female. And one more thing, in the school, the characters will be able to enter both the male and female toilets.
For my part I am looking forward to start playing Hogwarts Legacy. I don’t promise that I won’t spend the next 48 hours after its premiere cooped up at home and not going out, enjoying everything that the wizarding world of Harry Potter has to offer me and anyone of any gender.
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