Everybody is chattering, apparently, about the maybe proposed Potter-verse tv series

[conuly]

Or, at least in the places I read, about how they probably shouldn't do it because JKR is super transphobic and doesn't need more money anyway.

You know, there's a lot I could theoretically say about that, but somehow, the convo in the comments I actually had was on the subject of Why Molly and Arthur Are Bad Parents, Canon Backs Me Up.

"But don't you think you're putting too much emphasis on the roast beef sandwiches?"

Nope, not at all. What I think is that Molly Weasley, if there's any justice in that world, is going to end up alone, wondering why all her kids won't talk to her. She's like one of the parents at Issendai's site. Literally, she's this woman at the end here, the one with the corn chips. She's not going to see her son for another ten months, and she makes him a lunch she knows he doesn't like?

I will stand by this statement.

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[conuly]

What I've seen tends to... well, overstate it. What's in canon and can be reasonably extrapolated from there is bad enough, there's no need to make it so much worse. That's even more annoying to me than just ignoring it or accepting Harry's viewpoint - which, I suspect, is JKR's viewpoint - totally uncritically.

But there's just so much potterfic, it's easy enough to miss out on a story or a theme or two. Do you have any recs?

[dine]

oh yeah, lots of authors go completely OTT, to the point of stupidity. unfortunately at this point I can't recall much of anything that fits the bill (my superpower is forgetting author/title of most fics/novels) but if I o come across something, I'll try to remember to t you know

[conuly]

oh hey i just realized your icon is not "a cute little potato resting on a sofa" but a couch potato.

[dine]

hee! it's my spirit animal :)