[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

I agree with Marsh here (yuk!).

My issue with the Potter franchise kids is not that they have differing opinions to JK Rowling... It's that they haven't bothered to - or don't have the ability to - engage her in discussion about it directly to express what it is they disagree with. Beyond that, they haven't even publicly managed to state a case in their own words for why they specifically disagree with her, when they're some of the few people who have a valid platform to do just that.

All they've done is pop their heads up, bleat a group-think mantra which I'm sorry I just cannot ****ing stand. Catchphrases for people who can't articulate their own thoughts to parrot "in support of X, Y, Z"... No. No thank you. As your ol primary school teacher might have said... "show your working". They say that for a reason. You show your reasoning so that people know you understand what you're saying and didn't copy it from the person sat next to you... Because if you did, you don't get the marks.

So yes, anyway, off track a little: I'm repulsed by the response of the Potter kids because it wasn't the personal or thought out response of people who actually give a ****, it was the parroted response of a group of celebrities who are worried that their own image might be attached to JK Rowling and are keen to express otherwise, to appease the fan base, and I imagine to protect their own image. It is shallow. I have very little time for it.

Exactly. This "ambassador for women's rights" had a moment to... be an ambassador for women's rights and got her PA to roll out a stock PR answer from the "basic phrases" handbook.

I found Daniel Radcliffe's response laughable too when he basically told people he was sorry she'd ruined the books for them. Apologising on her behalf AND justifying their "hatred" of her but without saying why. That does not work on so many levels.