I am not an especial Rowling fan. I read the first of the Harry Potter books and liked it well enough, but was not excited. The new magic was too dense. People were doing magical things everywhere. In the older fantasies the magic was often more of a poorly understood natural ability with actual magical events ancient and accumulated, brought forth for a purpose into essentially non-magical worlds. Still, she was clever, could write a good combo fantasy/school story and my family loved her.
I have become more of a fan in recent years when she has come under attack for cultural and political reasons. She has struck the balance between firmness, even harshness, and graciousness and sticking to reason rather than fashion.
Ann Althouse ran a post about her this morning which is among the best I have seen on the topic. Now that the Harry Potter stars have become adults and have taken to a very showy form of trashing the woman who made them famous, Rowling has subjected them to adult treatment. I doubt they will like it.
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Just to note, Watson is 35 and Radcliffe is 36. So not only are they not children, they are fast approaching middle age.
Didn't Rowling say in the Harry Potter stories that one of the Fundamental Laws of magic was "Tamper with the deepest mysteries---that Source of Life, the Essence of Self---only if prepared for consequences of a most extreme and dangerous kind,"? Because that's what the Trans movement is doing.
I never cared for the style of the Potter books, though I like the imaginary world well enough to enjoy the movies thoroughly. I much preferred a detective series whose name I forget: she wrote it with clarity and imagination. Her public persona is great.
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