But this joyful return to the wizarding world doesn’t seem to have actually diversified or complicated it all that much - and the result is a growing gap between Rowling’s fans and her writing. Meanwhile, over the past several years, Rowling has begun actively and regularly expanding the HP universe through factoids on her Twitter account, new stories on the Pottermore website, the Fantastic Beasts films, and the new play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (written by Jack Thorne and directed by John Tiffany, who collaborated on the story). Teenage fans, meanwhile, thrive in a tech-infused, diverse reality that increasingly diverges from the one Rowling wrote. The millions of children who grew up with the books, learning a doctrine of love, kindness, and tolerance from its pages, are now adults trying to apply that doctrine to an increasingly complicated world: A recent study found that Harry Potter fans are far less likely to vote for Trump in the US presidential election.
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The Harry Potter universe has spawned an international legacy of fans across three generations: adult fans who enjoyed the books and movies as they came out, the children who grew into adults alongside Harry and his friends, and newer fans who are just discovering the series today.īut to many of these fans, the stagnation of the HP world has become harder and harder to ignore. Harry Potter and the fans who grew up without him With the most recent installment in the HP franchise, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, fans have buckled down on their criticism that Rowling and her collaborators haven’t done enough to bring modern progressive representation to Harry’s vast magical world. In the year 2016, however, nearly a decade after the outing of Dumbledore and almost 20 years after the publication of the very first Harry Potter book, the world of Harry Potter still looks and feels exactly like it did when Harry first entered Hogwarts: nearly all white and rigidly heteronormative. "If I had known this would have made you this happy," she said, "I would have announced it years ago." The audience immediately leapt to its feet and roared its approval. Rowling casually tossed off one of the biggest announcements in the history of her landmark fantasy phenomenon: Dumbledore, Harry’s mentor and the greatest wizard in the world until his dramatic death in book six, was gay. In October 2007, at a rare appearance at a packed Carnegie Hall, Harry Potter author J.K.