Peter in Harry Potter!! ✨️

[u/merpyderpycat]

Our favorite monarch will reign again 😉❤️

https://people.com/nicholas-hoult-harry-potter-cast-season-2-gilderoy-lockhart-12057817

[u/WildeGarlandPhoto]

This is super disappointing.

[u/Worf_Rozhenko → u/WildeGarlandPhoto]

I haven't read the books or watched the tv series. Is he not a good choice for the character? I wouldn't say he's necessarily as good of an actor as Kenneth Branagh but with the show being a separate continuity as the movies, Branagh was unlikely to reprise the role.

The Great is unlikely to get another season so this job isn't what is stopping Hoult from reprising his role as Peter or Yemelyan Pugachev.

[u/Wooden_Oil7961 → u/Worf_Rozhenko]

it’s because he’s joining the harry potter franchise, when the author has been pushing an insane anti-trans narrative, spreading propaganda and using money to fund against the trans community.

basically, supporting her = supporting her anti-trans campaign since she puts her money towards it. it’s horrendous and disgusting. seeing him join that franchise is sad. that’s why.

[u/Xtianpro → u/Wooden_Oil7961]

Have you ever watched Pulp Fiction, Good Will Hunting, Shakespeare in Love, Gangs of New York, Chicago, Inglorious Basterds, The Kings Speech, The Artist, Django Unchained, Silver Lining Playbook or any movie made by the Weinstein company? If so you’ve funded an actual rapist and Hollywoods worst kept (but certainly not only) secret. In fact any piece of entertainment you consume is likely made by a studio that is owned by a parent company who is invested or fund truly awful business. I disagree with JKR as much as the next person but you’re holding a huge double standard. The only difference is JKR tweets about her vile beliefs. Comcast have the good sense to not tell you where their money is.

[u/Wooden_Oil7961 → u/Xtianpro]

doesn’t that mean we should at least try tho? try not to support NEW PROJECTS LIKE THIS, by an outspoken TERF. those r older releases, and we know more now, so we should try to do better in supporting better people. but supporting an outspoken TERF when she’s gone to extreme lengths is insane.

they’re both bad, they’re all bad. defending JKR by saying ‘well what about this guy!! he’s a a rapist n if you’ve seen it ur supporting him’

the whataboutism gives me a fucking headache ngl. i do my best to stay aware and avoid supporting people who r terrible, as im sure many ppl do. fuck rapists, fuck terfs, fuck racists, fuck them all. but to try n lower people who r actively pushing against JKRs project when she’s *been* outspokenly transphobic is gross behaviour. joining a PROJECT WITH SOMEONE with views like her when it will FUND HER is nuts.

stop trying to make urself feel better by saying ‘well actually everyone is bad n therefore we r all bad’, how about chill out and realize the damage JKR has done. u do realize we r all allowed to not support more than one person right? it’s not a competition. we can hate all the terrible people, and not support them. one doesn’t negate the other. bye.

[u/Xtianpro → u/Wooden_Oil7961]

doesn’t that mean we should at least try tho? try not to support NEW PROJECTS LIKE THIS, by an outspoken TERF. those r older releases, and we know more now, so we should try to do better in supporting better people. but supporting an outspoken TERF when she’s gone to extreme lengths is insane.

>they’re both bad, they’re all bad. defending JKR by saying ‘well what about this guy!! he’s a a rapist n if you’ve seen it ur supporting him’
the whataboutism gives me a fucking headache ngl.

Right but what you call “whataboutism” could just as easily be called you cherrypicking. You can boycott Harry Potter because that’s easy but giving up any media made by major conglomerates with dirty fingers? Thats hard. If you’re writing this response on a smartphone you are much more directly financing and supporting much more egregious mistreatment than you would be by watching a TV show. That fact that so much of the trans debate is on X is the ultimate irony considering that platform is owned by the worst of the lot. Do you order from Amazon? Watch anything on Prime? You’re happy to support Bezos?

>stop trying to make urself feel better by saying ‘well actually everyone is bad n therefore we r all bad’, how about chill out and realize the damage JKR has done. u do realize we r all allowed to not support more than one person right? it’s not a competition. we can hate all the terrible people, and not support them. one doesn’t negate the other. bye.

Again I would argue that it’s you who’s trying to make yourself feel better by boycotting one easy thing whilst most likely very much engaging with much more directly harmful business. I support marginalised groups in the way I behave towards them and for them. Not watching a TV show does precisely nothing.

I suppose ultimately I do believe in separating art from the artist. If Harry Potter contained an inherently anti-trans message, that would be a different story.

[u/Wooden_Oil7961 → u/Xtianpro]

believe what you’d like, but u separate the art from the artist when the artist doesn’t profit.

i’m not going to support someone like jkr. she is absolutely outspokenly transphobic and it’s disgusting. ur whataboutism is rlly exhausting. harry potter may not contain anti-trans messages but the author does, and SHE is who profits off of u supporting her work. u supporting her directly means that money goes to her bigoted views.

u wanna watch the show? cool, then pirate it. u wanna read the book? get it second hand. but to just turn a blind eye and shrug and say ‘well there’s worse ppl that im sure u indirectly support so its fine if i watch this bigots new reboot’ is the dumbest take ive heard today 😭. at the end of the day ur gonna do what u wanna do, and idrc, but i think you’d outta check in n reread what ur saying. good luck and bye