#Hogwarts legacy review series
Hogwarts Legacy is a third-person action-RPG set in the same universe as the classic Harry Potter series of children's books. Pull up a chair, pour yourself some tea, wrap yourself in a blanket, scream into a pillow (or the abyss), because this one’s gonna take a lot out of both of us. We’re here to talk about Hogwarts Legacy, and to do that we need to discuss the whole mess. I don’t even smoke and I feel like I need a cigarette before I get this thing started. They might not bury their heads or relish buying it, but they will fail nonetheless.Yikes, y’all. They're being asked not to play an open world triple-A video game, in a year where about 15 others will also come out. They're not being asked to march in the street, they're not being asked to place themselves in danger. This is the first time they have ever been asked to back up that allyship with any real action. It's easy to support trans people when it's only the bad guys who hate us. Maybe they think trans women are women, maybe they think trans women are deluded men in dresses - either way, they say trans women are women because that's what nice, good people say. Let's look at those people in the middle. I'm just here to say how this game grew to be so controversial. You've already heard that argument and made up your mind. And I'm not going to tell you not to play it. I understand that being told not to do something, something easily within your means, that you will enjoy, and with no obvious ill-effects, is difficult to hear. I understand how foundational this series, either on the page or the silver screen, is to the nostalgia of many childhoods. There are people out there who have only read seven books in their life, and they all start with 'Harry Potter and the.'. It is hard, and I say this without sarcasm. But not playing a Harry Potter game is hard. You can say it even if you don't believe it, because it doesn't cost you anything and it makes you look like a good person. You can say 'trans women are women', you can point and laugh at Graham Linehan, you can claim Sam Smith looks just as good as Harry Styles in their sparkly leotard. It's easy to do, it doesn't take much courage. Even amidst the violence, trans acceptance is growing and the anti-trans movement is eating itself, as nice, congenial, previously liberal JK-lites find themselves increasingly uncomfortable with the right wing and misogynist company their ideology keeps. Supporting trans people ultimately puts you on the right side of history. They don't agree with JK Rowling, they don't enjoy the controversy around the game, but they just love Harry Potter. You personally boycotting it isn't going to tank the game, right? This is what those people in the middle think. JK Rowling is already rich, Harry Potter is already one of the biggest franchises in the world, and you're just one person. It's easy to rationalise that this does no harm. And while hearts and minds are staying firm, fists of the dissenters are being thrown - violence against trans people continues to rise.īuying Hogwarts Legacy is not the same as punching a trans person in the face. It does not have the hearts and minds of the people, as several surveys show, but it does own the press. She is the greatest figurehead the anti-trans movement in Britain has. She is a respected author, a congenial British national treasure, and (this major issue aside) famously liberal in her political views. She is not an unhinged right wing politician screeching about the Bible, nor a messy-haired Irish comedy writer crying that his wife has left him because of his trans obsession. She is the most famous and most socially acceptable transphobe in the world. JK Rowling is not just a transphobic person. Trans people existing is a common theme of villainy in her post-Potter work too. A quick check of her Twitter profile (a hazmat suit is recommended) shows constant streams of gender critical literature and quote tweets designed to dogpile trans activists - mentions of Harry Potter or her significantly less successful adult novels are few and far between.
Despite being the most beloved author of the modern era, Rowling currently dedicates her time almost exclusively to transphobia. As I have written about previously, Hogwarts Legacy is a game tainted by JK Rowling.
The anti-Semitism present in the caricatures and the involvement of Troy Leavitt only add to the controversy, but transphobia sits at the heart of it all. You might be asking 'what are these so-called numerous issues?', to which I say 'don't demean us both, you know as well as I do'.
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