On February 10 there will be those who rush to buy The Hogwarts Legacy: The Hogwarts Legacy to handle magic wands and brooms, those who have nothing to do with the adventures of the sorcerer’s apprentice but also those who will boycott the video game derived fromHarry Potter.
In fact, the 2023 gaming event has been the subject of lively controversy for several months. Many fans of the saga are trying to stop the launch of the game, especially on social networks, where calls for boycotts are increasing. At issue: Harry Potter creator JK Rowling’s recent outings to the media about the LGBT community, particularly transgender characters.
Lots of controversial comments
In fact, the author has repeatedly made comments that deny the rights of transgender people. JK Rowling, for example, had shown her support on her Twitter for Maya Forstater, a licensed researcher who said, among other things, that trans women are men.
The Harry Potter creator also pointed to an article that referred to “people who have periods” and not “women”, so as not to exclude trans people. “I’m sure there was a word for these people. Can anyone help me?” asked the author.
Releases That Have Never Failed To Keep Fans AwayHarry Potter, be part of or be allies of the LGBT community. Note that JK Rowling had also been pinned by her portrayal of the Gringotts bank goblins in Harry Potter. The latter would be close to the caricatures made in the book. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a conspiracy work from 1903 that indicated the so-called conquest plan planned by the Jews and the Freemasons to dominate the world and the banks. A book that had been quoted a few years later by Adolf Hitler in My struggle.
a torn community
Therefore, fans of the various sagas are divided today on the question: whether or not to buy derivative products, in particular the highly anticipated one. Hogwarts Legacy? For some, the answer is obvious: on Twitter, many tweets call for not spending money on video games: “If you buy Hogwarts Legacy, your money will go into the pocket of a woman who says that transgender people are rapists. Now it’s up to you to see with your conscience and your money”, “Buy hogwarts Legacy, is funding a transphobic eugenicist who actively campaigns against trans people, so it’s a transphobic purchase.”
But other fans point out the absurdity of defining this purchase as transphobic. “It’s like saying that if you’ve already played a Blizzard game, you’re automatically a fan of sexual harassment,” explains one user, referring to recent scandals within these video game studios.
Some also point out that JK Rowling is not directly linked to Hogwarts Legacy. “She doesn’t rule the wizarding world, she was just her creation,” Mitchell said when she was asked about the Washington Post. “What we as fans, readers, watchers, gamers decide to do with this world is completely separate from her or any beliefs she may have.”
The video game is effectively an adaptation of the saga. Harry Potter but it was by no means drawn up with JK Rowling herself. “JK Rowling was not involved in the creation of the game, but since she created the wizarding world and is one of the world’s greatest storytellers, her extraordinary corpus is the foundation of all Wizarding World projects,” however, he notes. the place. dedicated to video games.
However, some people who worked on the game wanted to disassociate themselves from JK Rowling. Sebastian Croft, an actor seen in the Netflix series Heartstopper and voiceover of one of the characters in the video game, indicated that during his casting the positions of JK Rowling were not known. “I was chosen for this project more than three years ago, when Harry Potter It was for me a magical world with which I grew up. […] There is no LGBT community without the T”, the actor had indicated on Twitter.
JK Rowling doesn’t care
Therefore, the discomfort persists a few days after the launch of the expected video game. But for her part, JK Rowling doesn’t seem necessarily fazed by controversies directed at her universe. In response to a tweet that asked how she manages to sleep at night knowing that she has lost some of her hearing, the author replied that “reading her copyright checks makes the pain go away a lot. Quick”.
Boycotted or not, the action and adventure game should continue to be, in any case, the playful appointment of this beginning of the year. But a simple wave of a magic wand shouldn’t be enough to erase all criticism.
Source: BFM TV
