Operation: Puppet 🇨🇦🏳️🌈Tepid take: no you don’t have to separate the art from the artist. There are thousands of talented artists in the world. Your life won’t be lesser without Harry fucking Potter. Find something else.
Iain Collins@operationpuppet I have long been vexed about the attention the Harry Potter series got when Mildred Hubble Worst Witch books (1970s) by Jill Murphy, which were clearly ripped off, were better written, funnier, more heartfelt, more relatable and more dramatic and felt more perilous because of how grounded they were.
The same is true of Demon Headmaster (1980s) by Gillian Cross.
The HP series was more suited to cinematic adaptation and got a movie deal but the writing is feeble in comparison.