Here's something I didn't think I'd get to do. Before I get into it, I do want to say that I love the Owl House. I think it's one of my favorite cartoons currently airing and I am anxious for any S2 news we can get. I don't want to go into my feelings of the show overall, because I am planning on doing a short or two with it. Not next week, but relatively soon. The reason that I choose the OH for this is because the show itself actually poked fun at Rowling in the sports episode and because it's in the same genre as Harry Potter.

That and I really do think that Rowling writing the Owl House would take away from what makes the show fun at least to me.

Luz, a white girl with black hair, was standing in her living room as her mother was yelling at her, "You worthless piece of garbage. My one regret was making sure you weren't swallowed!"

Luz smiled and walked outside, "Love you!"

Luz, unfazed by parental abuse, strolled down the street...WHEN SUDDENLY a bearded weirdo showed up and gave her a stick, "You're a wizard!"

"Oh boy! I can't wait to get into some adventures-"

Pages upon pages of establishing crap later

Luz was walking with her two friends, who you won't care for learning their names, in a library made by the tyran- I mean gracious head of school Belos with his slaves- I mean persuaded suddenly her friends layed on the ground with knives in their backs, "Oh no! Two friends I don't care about!"

Around a corner, a guy in a dress with green hair was looking at Luz, "You will be mine."

Six Books Later

Luz was locked in an epic battle with the guy in a dress. They pointed their sticks really hard at each other with lame lightning effects, "I won't let you get away with this!"

"I am in a relationship with the principal."

"What?!"

"I identify as a woman actually-"

Luz really leaned hard and her lightning effect struck down the vile foe that we'll see is gay, but never actually show anything in the work itself.

The punchline here is that JK Rowling would make it suck. She'd take everything that makes the show fun and suck it right out.

This is another case where I'm not really sure where to begin. JK Rowling is one of those writers with a history.

She is the creator of the Harry Potter series, which, despite my indifference to that series as a whole, deserves the credit for giving the mainstream public attention to the magical school genre.

Many looked up to her, both to her skills as a writer with HP and due to her sad life story.

I really do wish I didn't feel like doing this, but the case of JKR is sadly one of those instances of a creator who seemed admirable and such turned out to be a piece of trash.

She is a TERF and there is no argument about that. Her transphobic views are clear to everyone now.

I planned this out a little while back in 2020, that's when I planned on having this come out, but I just couldn't find much to really say about her writing.

Her leads tend to be bland and one dimensional. Her works try to be where the main character is just our POV and it's everything else that we're supposed to care about.

I get it. She tries to let everything else take centerstage, but the main characters in her works are so bland, that they subtract from it.

It's actually kind of amazing.

I don't know if this is an unpopular opinion, but I'd rather have a complete world with fictional elements than just a world that's mostly normal except for this one place. I feel like it makes exploring the world much more of a slog and not as endearing that we need to be spoon fed every bit of info.

I fully admit that this is a thing I don't like about Amphibia and the Owl House, but I tolerate it with them because they still manage to be good.

There's also the yesh elements in her works. Like how you can really read into pro slavery stuff with those worker elves.

Like, her work has not aged the best and I hate to harp on the problematic stuff, but it's an elephant in the room and it bothers the hell out of me.

I planned this installment of my writer jab series, because I wanted to talk about JKR, but there really isn't much to talk about her work.

It's sometimes good and sometimes it's not, but it's just the meta things that bothers me with her work.

Maybe actually show your characters as gay and not just make a tweet about it.

Writing this really did push my appreciation for the Owl House to new levels and that jab at the HP spricik thing or whatever is one of my favorite jokes in the whole show.