J.K. Rowling hasn’t gone mad, she’s under an Imperius Curse
I have solved the mystery. Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling hasn’t lost the plot, she’s just under the effect of an Imperius Curse that’s forcing her into online wars about transgender rights, entertainment reporter Duncan Lay writes.
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I think I have solved the mystery. Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling hasn’t lost the plot, she’s just under the effect of an Imperius Curse.
As all Potter fans know, the Imperius Curse means your mind is not your own and you do strange things, while acting as if you are completely normal.
To me, that pretty much sums up what is going on in Rowling’s world.
Let me explain. Rowling has been using her Twitter feed to engage in what has become a very bitter online fight about transgender people and indeed the nature of what it is to be a woman.
Interspersed with these rants are lovely shots of children’s fan art from her new book The Ickabog and Rowling praising the children for their skill and colouring-in ability.
It is truly a bizarre mix and it does appear as though two separate people are tweeting.
There’s Joanne, who writes such lovely notes as “superb drawing” or “I can’t believe you are only six!” and then J.K. who talks about puberty blockers and rape threats in the very next thread.
Somebody claims to have taken a picture of a deleted Rowling tweet, where she begins: “I love this truly fabulous Ickabog picture …” and then cuts to: “In court, Wolf claimed the Facebook post in which he’d said he wanted to ‘f**k up some TERFs’ was just ‘bravado’. #TheIckabog”.
Now, whether this tweet was true or not no longer matters.
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Because many of Rowling’s formerly devoted fans, who grew up with the books, have turned on her over this issue.
They will believe it is true and add it to the list of “evidence”, real or imagined, that she is a TERF, or trans-exclusionary radical feminist.
That has already seen both Daniel Radcliffe and Eddie Redmayne, stars of her Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts film franchises respectively, come out and oppose her.
Rowling was already becoming something of a meme for her bizarre habit of blurting out random facts about the Harry Potter universe, all of them woke, and always in inappropriate settings.
It began with her trying to weave such lines as “Dumbledore is gay” into the Fantastic Beasts stories, in order to balance out claims that the original books were too straight and too white.
Now it has taken on a life of its own. You can find evidence of these all over the internet and they go something like this.
Shop assistant: “That’ll be $5.99 please —”
Rowling: “Dobby had HIV!”
Tourist: “Do you know the way to Edinburgh Castle —”
Rowling: “Hedwig was actually an African owl!”
The joke is that “nobody asked for this” and it has certainly come true on her Twitter page.
Who is doing this?
Well, it can only be an evil cabal of children’s book authors, determined to open up the field for their work and so have a paid a Dark Wizard to put an Imperius Curse on Rowling.
I mean, that has to be the case.
Otherwise the most beloved children’s author of this century has decided the most important issue facing our truly f**ked-up world is that “trans women are not women”.