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Letting Your Kids Audition for New Harry Potter Material is Child Abuse
I mean every word of that title.
Content warning: this article talks about imperialism and transphobia. Lots of transphobia.
I don’t believe it. They already cast the new trio for the next Harry Potter “reboot”. And they expect us to be happy about it.
Why would JKR reboot a film series in television form? And why now? Sure, she’s allowed for spinoffs like the Fantastic Beasts trilogy, the Cursed Child play, and video games set in different time periods. It may have to do with the fact that she’s become openly transphobic and poured millions of pounds into politics to turn those views into law. And that the original film series’ leading trio have spoken against her. By contract, they still earn royalties from the first film. If a reboot takes off, those royalties go down for the three actors.
The First Two Harry Potter Films Had Caring Leadership
Whatever flaws Christopher Columbus has with his direction, he wants to keep child actors safe in every project. Macaulay Culkin suffered as a result of the fame from Home Alone because he had a father who cared more about the money than about his son. As he told The Guardian in 2013:
“I was much younger and I was really too naive to…
