JK Rowling Brought Leftist Politics into Her HP Books

Thus, She had Created a Woke Fandom which Later Turned on Her Over Trans Row

And thus, JK Rowling had Brought Trans Row Upon Herself

No, understand me correctly - I entirely support JK views on trans radicalism and toxic gender ideology behind it. I was one of her most eager defenders back in June 2020 when she had first caused an ire of trans mafia. So I'm not going to condemn JK for 'transphobia'. My point is entirely another one. Which one exactly?

My point is that JK Rowling HERSELF had politicized her fiction - namely HP books - with Left wing ideology, thus attracting all Leftist SJWs (who now turned Woke) as her primary readership. That's why all JK Rowling fandom - or HP fandom, to be more precise - had gone Woke and as such turned on its once beloved author.

I mean - do you observe the same picture with say Tolkien fandom or Lovecraft fandom? Woke mafia also tries hard to cancel both Tolkien and Lovecraft for their 'racism', 'sexism', 'white supremacy' and gods know what else, but, UNLIKE with JK, their fandom STANDS with their beloved authors and not turns on them. In the contrary, Tolkien and Lovecraft fandom actively resists new Woke abominations - so-called 'adaptations' of Tolkien and Lovecraft work - like Lovecraftian County or The Rings of Power. But if we speak of JK Rowling, almost ALL her HP fandom had turned on her, and now seeks ways to keep enjoying HP universe without 'giving money to a transphobe'.

In fact, this situation - when one particular famous author's fans had turned on their beloved authors because of Woke politics - is almost unique for JK Rowling. Again, Woke mafia tries to cancel many other authors as well - not only abovementioned Tolkien and Lovecraft, but pretty much every classic author for instance. Yet, their readers usually stand with them. With JK Rowling, however, her own fans had turned on her. Now, WHY could that be?

It might be argued that it's because unlike our beloved classics, JK Rowling is a contemporary author. Hence, Wokesters just try harder to cancel her than say Tolkien or Lovecraft, because it's kinda pointless to 'cancel dead people'. It might be true but it is still possible to ban and burn books written by the dead people though. In addition, this argument doesn't explain why JK OWN readership turned on their beloved author instead of promptly springing to her defense like Lovecraft and Tolkien fans actually did.

It might be also argued that it happened because classics is read by all generations while JK Rowling most famous series - HP books - is primarily aimed at young generation. And young generation is the Wokest in our society. Thus, there is no wonder that JK fans had turned on her - she had a bad luck of having the Wokest generation as her primary readership. There might be a point here but for example Tolkien or Lovecraft books attract a lot of young readers as well. Hence, it isn't as simple, and it should have been something ELSE with JK Rowling and her books which explains why her fans turned upon her now.

I believe it is because of Left wing politics which JK Rowling had willingly incorporated into her HP books. Hence, she had attracted NOT JUST young readers, but also POLITICALLY ACTIVE and LEFT LEANING young readers! And those are primary grist for the Woke mill. Hence, JK Rowling had not only attracted particular Woke or pre Woke type of young readers, she had helped to shape their views with her politics as well.

What do I mean exactly? Well, all HP well too pronounced politics. When little kids 'fight fascism on their own' (and the analogy between Voldemort and Hitler, all this magic pure blood stuff and real world racism is way too obvious), it was bound to backfire on the author. It's no coincidence many young and dumb but ideologically very active Americans imagined themselves to be members of 'Dumbledore's Army' fighting Voldemort (Trump) and his Death Eaters (Republicans). Hence, JK planted seeds of her own future destruction herself.

To be sure, I have no doubt that her intentions were good. I have no doubt that JK herself is a classic Left liberal feminist (not Woke!), and that she truly believed in what she said in her books. Also I have no doubt that when deciding to incorporate politics into children books, she meant no harm but quite the opposite - e.g., to help kids to imbibe the values she herself deemed to be good ones. All this goes without saying, again.

However, one has to be VERY CAREFUL while incorporating politics into fiction, and doubly careful with young adult and children books specifically because kids and youths quickly imbibe everything like a sponge - and here I'm speaking as BOTH creative writer and political blogger. Again, it's perfectly alright when author has a point and delivers his message via his fiction. Almost all classic authors had done this as well - after all, fiction is not just for fun, it is reflection of its author's views, and as such might be used for educational purposes as well.

Here is where the danger lurks, however. The border between education and indoctrination, between merely a political point and full-scale propaganda is VERY THIN indeed. Overdo the first and you'd easily get the latter. This is exactly what JK had done - she had OVERDONE her politics in her fiction, in my view. When little kids fight fascism, it's just TOO MUCH!

One has to implement politics very carefully and subtly again. Basic writing principle 'SHOW NOT TELL' should be paramount. Hence, don't tell your readers straight away who is the baddie here - let them SEE IT FOR THEMSELVES by the way you write! Don't preach but rather illustrate your morals with your story! This is how it should be done. With this regard I like how Robin Hobb - still one of my most favorite contemporary authors (and I'm still not disappointed with her unlike say with Neil Gaiman who gone too Woke or George Martin who killed his fiction with his procrastination) - does it. She writes dark epic fantasy, she never preaches - just creates dramatic stories with relatable characters, but in the end after reading her books you always learn some new major moral lesson.

It's not how it was with JK books, however. When your main antagonist is almost literally Hitler, it's WAY TOO OBVIOUS, almost propagandist. It doesn't matter JK tried to explain Lord Voldemort evil by his childish trauma - Hitler analogy is still way too prominent, and overshadows everything else.

Also, the decision to make young students the primary force against evil was a huge mistake in my view. Young people despite all their good intentions and a lot of energy do not usually possess enough WISDOM to 'fight evil' - wisdom comes with experience, and experience comes with age. That's why also politicians are usually NOT young people - young people aren't wise enough to rule and to do politics overall. Yet this is what young students in HP books were doing - politics! It was way too obvious analogy of campus politics we're observing in Western universities for real. I would not go into further analogies between students fighting Voldemort and his Death Eaters in JK books, and Woke Marxist indoctrination on real American campuses which resulted into American students also go 'fighting white supremacy' during notorious BLM violent riots - oh, sorry, 'peaceful protests for racial justice'. These analogies are well too obvious again.

So, by incorporating real politics into her fictional world, JK Rowling had not only attracted politically active young readers - she essentially helped to MAKE THEM SUCH with her books. Since her politics were Left-wing, so was her readership. And when most of the Lefties radicalized and turned Woke (due to both Marxist indoctrination in Western universities and ironically HP politics somewhat too), JK Rowling ended up with perhaps the most toxic fandom in the world - fandom she herself unwillingly helped to shape as such. So is there any wonder SUCH fandom had turned upon its beloved author?

Again, I do not blame JK Rowling for that - I understand that her intentions were pretty good. Not that I'm disagreeing with her politics either - I'm a classic liberal Left feminist as well. My critics is aimed at her massive incorporation of her politics into her fiction, and way too obvious as such. This is what had backfired at JK Rowling most of all.