Rowling’s actual blog post is pretty thoughtful and interesting though.
Hey @superuberbob looks like our school just “all lives matter”'ed the entire student body. 
https://mobile.twitter.com/hilaryagro/status/1271546768153403393
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I went there during Dubya and the student body is to the right of other universities in the northeast that I visited as an undergrad but that’s still left of deplorables.
I wish I could see the comments to that though.
Yea being in Central PA has a lot to do with that.
You think you have all the right boxes to put people in and then you find out the world is a lot weirder than you expect
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UPDATE
The cat-poisoner wrote a letter to a different neighbour threatening to poison her cats. She addressed the (poison pen?) letter with her own Eircode (basically zip codes, introduced a few years ago so lololds don’t understand them), thinking it was an area-wide thing rather than specific to her exact address. Has now been spoken to by the rozzers. Cat-lovers breathe easy; justice is served.
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Goddam I almost made it through an Irish/Scottish post understanding everything. But then rozzers.
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Just means cops, sorry lol.
Fkin rozzers pissn me fukn wont
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That’s more a Northie thing, think some Brits call them that too after this guy, also why Brits call them bobbies.
Jk Rowling has gone all in on this terf stuff. What a weird heal turn.
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It shouldn’t be surprising when people who made a career out of celebrating an idealized, retrograde view of British society turn out to have other backwards views. See also: Julian Fellowes
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I have never read any of the book or seen the movies so can’t comment. I am curious how she did this? It’s all wizards and dragons and stuff right? Is it modeled on the British caste system?
Society run by those that went to an elite boarding school. Only difference to reality is that some of them are nice people.
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What’s the dirt on Aaron Sorkin?
Just imagine every twee British stereotype that ignores anything that happened after ~1930. That’s the world she created.
Also, we’re long passed the point where it’s OK to be ignorant of the Potterverse. It has become as indelible a part of contemporary culture as LotR or Star Wars.
I knew there were wizards and dragons. 
I havnt seen a star wars movie in years either!
Minimal dragons, not really key to any story line.
I also know what quittich is but not how to spell it.