Part 3. What does Harry Potter mean now? In the wake of Joanne falling prey to the black mold, the core Potter fandom widely staked out its intent to forge ahead without her. Potter fancised the leaky cauldron issued a statement of solidarity with trans people, promising to no longer link to Joanne's website or use images of her. And now displays a permanent trans flag lightning scar on its homepage. Other fancised, such as MuggleNet and the Harry Potter lexicon, echoed this statement. And a number of the fandom's biggest contributors express their desire to keep the fandom alive whilst urging their followers to stop paying for Potter. We created the fandom, and we created the magic and community in that fandom. That is ours to keep. I don't want to give J.K. Rowling the satisfaction of taking away from me something that I loved as a kid. And there's a part of me that thinks, yeah, Joanne, Potter is bigger than she is, it's outgrown her, it doesn't belong to her anymore, it belongs to all of us, it's ours. Wait, I don't have to leave, this is my part of the ship. The fandom has always engaged with Potter in a transformative way. The number of trans-themed Potter fanfics on AO3 and similar sites have exploded in recent years with what Ben Cromwell calls spite fix. He notes that, while these fanfics are motivated by outrage at Joanne, the content doesn't actually involve her. Instead, focusing on themes of kindness and acceptance for trans people in the setting of the wizarding world, it's a form of protest which seeks to change and reclaim what this story means.
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