It Took Me A While To Reconcile My Love For This Piece Of Media With My Disgust At The Author - Tumblr Posts

Spoilers for the last movie of Harry Potter (also book)

In general, I have a lot of mixed feelings for these movies and books.

I love them because I grew up on them. One of my first ships ever was Dramione in fanon. I could never see it in canon.

I was always in love with the story and how it developed and how it made me feel.

Yesterday, I ended up rewatching the last film with my family because it was showing on the TV. And watching that film as an adult now, it made me realise just how many of the adults in the film did their best to protect the next generation. They weren't always successful. However, Voldemort ultimate died because Harry had been protected by Lily and James's sacrifices; through the efforts of Narcissa Malfoy to keep her son, Draco, alive and through the pact that she and Severus Snape made; through Snape and Dumbledore working together because Snape's love for Lily is everlasting.

There are many more examples of love throughout the entire story of Harry Potter. They remind us that as much as love can be our greatest weakness with people like Voldemort and his deatheaters using loved one's to control a person's actions; love is also what allows rebellion and change to flourish. Love is our greatest strength, no matter which form it takes.

The Battle of Hogwarts is won because people believed that kindness, love and acceptance can overcome hatred, cruelty and bigotry and ignorance.

I guess, that is why it never made sense to me why an author who preached about love, kindness and acceptance in her stories could be so hateful to people who are already hurt by how society is.

Nothing that I have said in this post is new or profound. This is however the first time that I could finally express my feelings on the matter of Harry Potter. It feels good to talk about a fandom that I am sort of a veteran of xD.

I know that nowadays there is even more to explore within this fandom with the Marauders side of the fandom exploding on Ao3 and on here. I just might dip my toes in there for a little while and explore the world of Harry Potter from a different perspective.

But honestly fuck J K Rowling. There's enough bullshit going on in this world already. Stop adding to it.