![]() Rowling has taken public stances against inclusive transgender laws and trans rights,” reads a note at the bottom of a Polygon guide to finding the magic keys scattered around Hogwarts. “On numerous occasions in recent years, billionaire and Harry Potter creator J. The Mary Sue reported on an alleged fan boycott, in an article that began with the Potteresque incantation “Accio controversy!”Įven the walk-throughs-those helpful guides telling players how to solve the game’s puzzles and defeat its bosses-carried panicked disclaimers. The tech magazine Wired gave the game 1/10, and said its “real-world harms are impossible to ignore.” (These were left unspecified, but let’s presume the reviewer wasn’t talking about repetitive-strain injury from too many spell battles.) TheGamer declined to review the title at all, and suggested that readers should not play Hogwarts Legacy “if you care about your trans friends.” The British outlet Rock Paper Shotgun pointedly reviewed games by trans developers instead. This is despite the radical Goblin faction consorting with dark wizards, relying on murder and chaos, prior franchise lore showing neither goblins or wizards as faultless, and having always condemned bigotry and supremacism.When Hogwarts Legacy was released in February, the verdict from video-game sites was close to unanimous: The latest spin-off from the Harry Potter series was a heartless mess, the product of a bigoted worldview, and playing it involved an uncomfortable act of moral compromise-or at least holding your nose and reassuring yourself that J. The goblins were also compared to Jewish stereotype, as previously had celebrities Sarah Silverman and Jon Stweart the latter of whom later denied making such comparison.įurther, some took issue with Hogwarts Legacy‘s plot involving the player preventing a goblin uprising, characterized as quashing a rebellion for equal rights. Rowling’s comments on sex being real and denial of the female identity being taken as transphobic. Multiple attempts at a boycott had been attempted, centered around Harry Potter author J.K. ![]() Rowling Stands Her Ground As Transgender Activists Attack Her Opinion That Biological Men Self-Identifying As Women Are Dangerous ![]() Student Sebastian Sallow casts the Cruciatus Curse, also known as Crucio via Hogwarts Legacy (2022), Warner Bros. ![]()
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