I think that was the reality of it, especially in hindsight.

It's kinda like, I remember when the "Dumbledore is gay" comments came out and I was all "Okay, that's nice, but there's nothing in the book that implies one way or another". At the time, especially with her "bring on the fanfic" words, I figured she was just trying to keep Fujoshis away from her main characters.

Then she started going on about how Ron and Hermione, the perfect RomCom couple, were somehow destined for a life of much marriage counseling and how she could have almost changed her mind and made it Harry/Hermione...this after literally years of saying how they wouldn't work out well that way. I was all "Really? You try to nudge a decade-over shipping war? What reason would you have for that?" What reason indeed? Trying to stay relevant and in the news.

There's a few other examples. She's taken a few jabs at Trump, and has even embarrassed herself a time or two. It kinda seems like she misses all the fuss people used to make over her.

Frankly, if I was in her shoes and somehow made fame and fortune, I think I'd reach a point where I just wanted to take my money, build a freakin' castle in the middle of nowhere, become a full-time homeschooler for my kid, and fade into obscurity. Especially these days. I feel sorry for JKR. She went from being a fairly solid "self-made woman" who appealed to us middle class types to someone who couldn't let go of fame.

I still love the books for what they are, but nowadays I don't think she really understood what she was writing in terms of evil media, deep state, and gun rights. She just thought she was writing Voldemort as a stereotypical "Hitler" character without really understanding why a government turns evil. For that reason (among others) these days I'm more likely to reread through Naruto than Harry Potter. At least MK understands that the worst bad guys are corrupted people with good intentions, rather than "evil for the sake of evil" Saturday Morning Cartoon Villain stereotypes who just go "mua ha ha ha" all the time. (Which, and I am sorry, Voldemort was definitely the latter.)

I think that was the reality of it, especially in hindsight.

It's kinda like, I remember when the "Dumbledore is gay" comments came out and I was all "Okay, that's nice, but there's nothing in the book that implies one way or another". At the time, especially with her "bring on the fanfic" words, I figured she was just trying to keep Fujoshis away from her main characters.

Then she started going on about how Ron and Hermione, the perfect RomCom couple, were somehow destined for a life of much marriage counseling and how she could have almost changed her mind and made it Harry/Hermione...this after literally years of saying how they wouldn't work out well that way. I was all "Really? You try to nudge a decade-over shipping war? What reason would you have for that?" What reason indeed? Trying to stay relevant and in the news.

There's a few other examples. She's taken a few jabs at Trump, and has even embarrassed herself a time or two. It kinda seems like she misses all the fuss people used to make over her.

Frankly, if I was in her shoes and somehow made fame and fortune, I think I'd reach a point where I just wanted to take my money, build a freakin' castle in the middle of nowhere, become a full-time homeschooler for my kid, and fade into obscurity. Especially these days. I feel sorry for JKR. She went from being a fairly solid "self-made woman" who appealed to us middle class types to someone who couldn't let go of fame.

I still love the books for what they are, but nowadays I don't think she really understood what she was writing in terms of evil media, deep state, and gun rights. She just thought she was writing Voldemort as a stereotypical "Hitler" character without understanding why a government turns dangerous. These days I'm more likely to reread through Naruto than Harry Potter though. At least MK understands that the worst bad guys are corrupted people with good intentions, rather than "evil for the sake of evil" Saturday Morning Cartoon Villain stereotypes who just go "mua ha ha ha" all the time. (Which, and I am sorry, Voldemort was definitely the latter.)

I think that was the reality of it, especially in hindsight.

It's kinda like, I remember when the "Dumbledore is gay" comments came out and I was all "Okay, that's nice, but there's nothing in the book that implies one way or another". At the time, especially with her "bring on the fanfic" words, I figured she was just trying to keep Fujoshis away from her main characters.

Then she started going on about how Ron and Hermione, the perfect RomCom couple, were somehow destined for a life of much marriage counseling and how she could have almost changed her mind and made it Harry/Hermione...this after literally years of saying how they wouldn't work out well that way. I was all "Really? You try to nudge a decade-over shipping war? What reason would you have for that?" What reason indeed? Trying to stay relevant and in the news.

There's a few other examples. She's taken a few jabs at Trump, and has even embarrassed herself a time or two. It kinda seems like she misses all the fuss people used to make over her.

Frankly, if I was in her shoes and somehow made fame and fortune, I think I'd reach a point where I just wanted to take my money, build a freakin' castle in the middle of nowhere, become a full-time homeschooler for my kid, and fade into obscurity. Especially these days. I feel sorry for JKR. She went from being a fairly solid "self-made woman" who appealed to us middle class types to someone who couldn't let go of fame.

I still love the books for what they are, but nowadays I don't think she really understood what she was writing in terms of evil media, deep state, and gun rights. She just thought she was writing Voldemort as a stereotypical "Hitler" character. These days I'm more likely to reread through Naruto than Harry Potter though. At least MK understands that the worst bad guys are corrupted people with good intentions, rather than "evil for the sake of evil" Saturday Morning Cartoon Villain stereotypes who just go "mua ha ha ha" all the time. (Which, and I am sorry, Voldemort was definitely the latter.)

I think that was the reality of it, especially in hindsight.

It's kinda like, I remember when the "Dumbledore is gay" comments came out and I was all "Okay, that's nice, but there's nothing in the book that implies one way or another". At the time, especially with her "bring on the fanfic" words, I figured she was just trying to keep Fujoshis away from her main characters.

Then she started going on about how Ron and Hermione, the perfect RomCom couple, were somehow destined for a life of much marriage counseling and how she could have almost changed her mind and made it Harry/Hermione...this after literally years of saying how they wouldn't work out well that way. I was all "Really? You try to nudge a decade-over shipping war? What reason would you have for that?" What reason indeed? Trying to stay relevant and in the news.

There's a few other examples. She's taken a few jabs at Trump, and has even embarrassed herself a time or two. It kinda seems like she misses all the fuss people used to make over her.

Frankly, if I was in her shoes and somehow made fame and fortune, I think I'd reach a point where I just wanted to take my money, build a freakin' castle in the middle of nowhere, become a full-time homeschooler for my kid, and fade into obscurity. Especially these days. I feel sorry for JKR. She went from being a fairly solid "self-made woman" who appealed to us middle class types to someone who couldn't let go of fame.

I still love the books for what they are, but nowadays I don't think she really understood what she was writing in terms of evil media and gun rights. She just thought she was writing Voldemort as a stereotypical "Hitler" character. These days I'm more likely to reread through Naruto than Harry Potter though. At least MK understands that the worst bad guys are corrupted people with good intentions, rather than "evil for the sake of evil" Saturday Morning Cartoon Villain stereotypes who just go "mua ha ha ha" all the time. (Which, and I am sorry, Voldemort was definitely the latter.)

I think that was the reality of it, especially in hindsight.

It's kinda like, I remember when the "Dumbledore is gay" comments came out and I was all "Okay, that's nice, but there's nothing in the book that implies one way or another". At the time, especially with her "bring on the fanfic" words, I figured she was just trying to keep Fujoshis away from her main characters.

Then she started going on about how Ron and Hermione, the perfect RomCom couple, were somehow destined for a life of much marriage counseling and how she could have almost changed her mind and made it Harry/Hermione...this after literally years of saying how they wouldn't work out well that way. I was all "Really? You try to nudge a decade-over shipping war? What reason would you have for that?" What reason indeed? Trying to stay relevant and in the news.

There's a few other examples. She's taken a few jabs at Trump, and has even embarrassed herself a time or two. It kinda seems like she misses all the fuss people used to make over her.

Frankly, if I was in her shoes and somehow made fame and fortune, I think I'd reach a point where I just wanted to take my money, build a freakin' castle in the middle of nowhere, become a full-time homeschooler for my kid, and fade into obscurity. Especially these days. I feel sorry for JKR. She went from being a fairly solid "self-made woman" who appealed to us middle class types to someone who couldn't let go of fame.

I still love the books for what they are, but nowadays I don't think she really understood what she was writing in terms of evil media and gun rights. She just thought she was writing Voldemort as a stereotypical "Hitler" character. These days I'm more likely to reread through Naruto than Harry Potter though. At least MK understands that the worst bad guys are corrupted people with good intentions, rather than Saturday Morning Cartoon Villain stereotypes who just go "mua ha ha ha" all the time.