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Guys, you can acknowledge that the author is a dick without boycotting the thing you love so much outright. Think about it: how many other authors, actors, directors, painters,. musicians are massive dicks in the wildest ways? Enjoying their work doesn't make you a bigot, yet that one terf and her wizard books are off limits somehow. Yes, paying for her stuff will give her royalties, yet have you looked at the hoards of money she possesses? Gringot's absolutely not stereotypical jew-goblins would love to take that. The dollar she gets from your purchase will not matter in any way, but enjoying stories that offer some relief and enable you to forget this problem-ridden dumpster fire we have turned our world into will make your life better. So, don't die on a hill where no one will even notice your sacrifice.
I agree that enjoying her work doesn't necessarily make you a biggot, but it does mean you aren't an ally. Your money absolutely does make a difference. She sees continued support of her works as support of her anti-trans ideas.
Also, what I loved about HP has changed, what I see in the original source material can't be unchanged. I loved the magic, the opportunity, the hope and the underlying messages of love and found family.
But I don't see those things anymore when I re-engage with the source material. They're still there on the surface, sure, but now I know more about the author I can't unsee the racist undertones, the issues surrounding gender roles and the failed allegorys for homosexuality. It was there the whole time, and I was blissfully ignorant as a teenager reading these books, and that's why okay, but as an adult, I can't go back. What I loved about HP isn't there anymore, and trying to read other again through the child like lens makes me feel uncomfortable because it's like I'm closing my eyes, sticking my fingers in my ears and convincing myself that it's okay to be complicit engaging with bigotry.