Rape as punishment is also present in the Potterverse as well. Dolores Umbridge is one more infamous example who gets her comeuppance by *checks notes* getting gang raped by centaurs. But, since she was evil it was clearly NBD.
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Yeah tossed on the same heap with Terry Goodkind 
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I get where you’re coming from with this, though I think we need to keep the term- They shouldn’t be part of Feminism, but at the moment they are, and it’s not a problem that the wider movement can “no true Scotsman” its way out of. Removing the haters and their hatred from the movement and from its ideology more broadly is going to be a long and difficult task.
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If this hard swerve toward a completely new audience continues, she’s going to have to recast the next “Fantastic Beasts” movie to feature Kirk Cameron as the right-wing uber-hero who drives all the various magical folks into a chaste life of protestant service. Just think of the money she’ll save the studios now that Johnny Depp won’t be needed.
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Well, at least you can admit that. Thanks for not even attempting to go there.
I own all the original Harry Potter books, and several of the movies; while I have no intention of trashing them now, I can still be deeply disappointed with the creator (which I am) and vow to never give her another red cent of my money.
Like @the_borderer said, hopefully one day most people see her the way they now see Lovercraft; a horrible bigot on the wrong side of history who just happened to be talented.
I always thought the centaurs tore her apart, limb from limb.
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Rowling’s Cormoran Strike series written under the pen name Robert Galbraith
Mrs Rowling appears to feel uncomfortable about any non-binary reality. And she expresses that in books where she presents as a male author.
Wait, what?
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I believe she was just roughed up and had her wand broken by the centaurs but the experience left her traumatized enough to go into a panic at the sound of hoofbeats.
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You’re missing the significance of the particular pen name that was chosen:
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I still like my perceived ending better than both of yours, regardless that it’s not at all kid friendly.
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She was later rescued by Dumbledore. I also think that the choice of the centaur was not chosen by accident given the associated mythology. (There’s no lack of essays out on the Internet about this theory by those far more qualified to posit on this aspect than me.)
Setting that aside, the general rule in the Harry Potter world is “bad things are fine, as long as they happen to bad people” which seems like some pretty shitty wisdom to impart on the book’s target audience.
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That’s what fan fiction is for!
(Well, that and exploring one’s own weird sexual fantasies)
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Agreed, it’s not a good look.
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The most socially awkward thing about being a centaur isn’t the sex stuff. The most socially awkward thing is not being able to wipe your own ass.
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Oh, I dunno. Have the boys stop wearing robes, have the girls stop using wands. Also turn Hogwarts into a Christian college, so they’re not wizards or witches at all. Also turn Hogwarts into two separate schools, a Christian college for boys, and a Christian college for girls. The story is all about Harry pulling himself out of poverty and pursuing a degree in economics, whilst thwarting the cross-dressing, socialist monster Voldemort who is clearly a Remainer.
There’s a market for it.
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I mean, hell, E.L. James built a successful writing career by turning her Twilight fan fiction into boring depictions of un-supernatural S&M with her Fifty Shades of Grey series.
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Thanks. I hate it.
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She can…
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I’m involved in a guild/club that seems to have developed strong Harry Potter’esque elements among the younger generation. The peculiar thing is that a good many of the organizers are gay, and queer history is discussed all the time. I’m too old to have enjoyed the Rowling books as a child, (though I have read them) and so I mostly just roll my eyes at the potterian references and ignore it. But I kept thinking that there’s going to be a reckoning.
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Yes. She also claimed Hermione was always Black when the play was cast with a Black actor in the part, but some (mostly racist) fans found passages in the original books indicating otherwise. I’m fine seeing Hermione as Black, but not because it’s an empty retcon to make the author look more progressive than she is.
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