Just Some Random Anti J K and Fantastic Beasts Rambling

The Harry Potter franchise has been tainted for me by J K’s bullshit. I’m happy for everyone who can separate the art from the artist but more and more, I find I am unable to do this. But one thing that frustrates me most of all as an ex-fan, is that they could have written such an amazing series if they had left Fantastic Beasts as it’s own light hearted adventure and made a separate series about Grindlewald with Dumbledore as the main character.

One of the key points in the books was that a lot of Dumbledore’s life was a mystery, meaning they could play around a bit without messing with canon. They could have properly explored an already established character and build up to the great battle between him and Grindlewald and how he became the man we now know. And most importantly, we could have had an epic mainstream fantasy with a gay lead that doesn’t focus on his sexuality, while also allowing him the same romantic plot lines any other heterosexual lead would have gotten.

Instead we get a six second clip that can be deleted at a moment’s notice. We get characters that are pushed to the side, rushed and messily slapped together for the bare minimum and it just sucks.

I sometimes wonder if they had done a story of Dumbledore and done it well (especially his feelings for Grindlewald) would I have watched it? I think it’s important not to help fund transphobics work, but I would also say it’s important to support films and series with LGBT leads, especially with other genres. Thankfully I don’t need to worry about that decision because they bombed any chances of actually writing that story.