John Oliver hits how Harry Potter fans feel right on the head
Fans of the Harry Potter series have been trying to erase a certain creator from our minds and John Oliver hits how many fans feel right on the head (and correctly too).
During Last Week Tonight, John Oliver brought up how many are just trying to separate things from the bad aspects of our world and made a joke about how Harry Potter fans are trying to do that with J.K. Rowling. And he’s not exactly wrong.
The joke in question said that many fans wish that Rowling would disappear but the books could stay and while hilarious, it is how many are coping with all the latest drama with the series. Many don’t want to write off the series as a whole so they sort of want to completely erase who created it.
We’ve talked about how that isn’t exactly a good thing and we should look at the series through a lens of Rowling’s latest transgressions but it is a coping mechanism many have taken upon themselves. But John Oliver pretty much got the fandom pegged.
The idea of just completely saying Rowling has nothing to do with the Harry Potter series anymore definitely doesn’t work because she’s always going to have something to do with the Boy Who Lived, no matter how hard we try and fight against it.
So, maybe Oliver’s one-off joke was on to something. He’s pointing out that we’re just trying to honor the series we love without thinking about the author and it’s sad and funny how accurately that describes the Harry Potter fandom right now.
Maybe we should examine that a bit more seriously?
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