Which is … onerous to consider? For one factor, if she labored on this guide in any capability prior to now three years, it ought to have been extraordinarily obvious that just about the whole world would interpret this story as being semi-autobiographical, albeit in a funhouse mirror model of occasions through which the Rowling character is punished by an unruly web mob for a innocent joke in a cartoon, and never for repeated, prolonged, fallacy-ridden assaults on the transgender neighborhood.
And in addition, this wouldn’t be the primary time that Rowling has used her books to excise her personal private, petulant frustrations. As we’ve talked about earlier than, the Harry Potter books are crammed filled with coded private insults; Gilderoy Lockhart, Harry’s Aunt Marge, and the evil Professor Umbridge had been all primarily based on actual those that Rowling had a beef with – therefore why she tortured them utilizing her phrase processor. To not point out how she saved intentionally inserting a particular phrase within the Potter novels purely to screw with Stephen Fry, who was tasked with narrating the audiobooks – however a minimum of these books weren’t a billion chapters lengthy.
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