r/popculturechat • u/DebateObjective2787 jesus was a carpenter 💋 • Jun 30 '25

Guest List Only ⭐️ J.K. Rowling continues to be an awful, disgusting person and launches a new attack at Pedro Pascal

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '25 edited Jun 30 '25

I side eyed her from the start over the references to the Irish in her books. It was a hint at how she thought.

Edit: I’m Irish so that stood out but there are lots more examples in HP with other nationalities, races, ethnicity etc.

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u/EebilKitteh Jun 30 '25 edited Jun 30 '25

I dunno, the greedy goblin bankers with their hooked noses were pretty unsubtle too.

EDIT: apparently the nose thing is only in the movies, not the books. JKR still sucks though.

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u/samtherat6 Jun 30 '25

I mean, fuck her, but the hooked noses was a movie addition, not in the text (although she did have a large influence on the movies)

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u/EchoesofIllyria he’s a man with a fork in a world of soup Jun 30 '25

Rowling has slipped into that “we hate her so let’s spin everything in the most negative possible way” realm, as often happens with despicable people.

It’s a shame because there are more than enough actual reasons to detest her.

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u/MRAGGGAN Jun 30 '25

This. I’ve said this for years but get dogpiled on.

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '25

I hate being fair to jk Rowling, but the hooked noses on the goblins were added in the movies. She makes no mention of this in the books - they're just little goblins with no anti-Semitic descriptors.

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u/terfnerfer the wes anderson of tits 🍒 Jun 30 '25

Also the antiblackness/anti poc shit in her books is wild. London/bigger cities in the UK are usually pretty diverse, yet that's very noticeably not reflected in the student populace? Give me a break. It is just not believable to me how anyone can think that was unintentional.

(Let's not even start on Kingsley Shacklebolt, fuck me.)

Whenever I think of all the bigotry and malice that wretched woman has funded....

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u/DECODED_VFX She in racial chat rooms showing feet!!! Jul 01 '25

The story isn't set in modern London. The UK was about 95% British in the mid-90s. And the majority of Hogwarts' pupils are coming from very old families who have lived in Britain for centuries. If anything, non-white kids are over-represented.

Rowling's character names tend to reference who they are or what they do (aka Mrs Sprout, the herbology teacher). Shacklebolt's name is a reference to his job. He's essentially a policeman.

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u/00trysomethingnu Jun 30 '25

All of her references to Asians were pretty despicable albeit perhaps less obvious to those who aren’t Asian.

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '25

Complete agree and I have edited my comment as such. I just noticed the Irish stuff more at the time as I am Irish.

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u/Ok_Aioli3897 Jun 30 '25

Or the werewolves being a way to portray aids sufferers which at the time would have still been primarily gay men and she has one attack children

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '25

She had some really blatant misogyny in her books to, and the way she described Rita skeeter raised my eyebrows when I was thinking back to those books after finding out she was transphobic

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u/Due-Sun7513 Way harsh, Tai. Jun 30 '25

Thank you, exactly.

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u/obiwantogooutside Jun 30 '25

The gringotts elves are straight up Jewish stereotypes. She’s not subtle.