JK Rowling was always this terrible
The polyjuice potion has worn off.
“There will be a time when we must choose”
In the wizarding world of Harry Potter, things are often not as they seem. You think you’re looking at a cat or a beetle, but those are powerful witches. That nasty potions master is in fact a Nice Guy™ deep undercover. Ron Weasley’s heroic sidekick aesthetic is little more than a cunning illusion spell to conceal an entitled blowhard whose endless gaslighting never faces any real consequences. And for all these years we believed in JK Rowling the progressive icon, until a spate of cruel outbursts forced fans to watch her discard causes she once claimed to champion. The polyjuice potion has worn off.
Just when #MeToo was taking centre stage, the casting of Johnny Depp as the dark wizard Grindelwald in the Fantastic Beasts films was, at best, obscenely ill-timed. Depp’s violent abuse of then-wife Amber Heard was revealed several months ahead of the first film’s 2016 release. During divorce proceedings the court saw photographs of Heard’s bruised face (along with household wreckage) from when Depp allegedly threw a phone at her with “extreme force”. The judge granted a restraining order against Depp, whose rage reportedly stemmed from an (unsubstantiated) adultery claim. Heard told the court that for “the…
