At the age of 25, JK Rowling gave birth on a train. She gave birth to the idea of Harry Potter.

To JK Rowling, the story of Harry Potter was “born” in the darkness. Rowling lost her mother to MS. Her mom was only 45 years old. She moved to Portugal to teach English, only to experience more loss. Rowling was in a relationship and became pregnant. She lost that child but married her partner at the time and they became pregnant again. Rowling ended up in an abusive relationship and continued to write Harry Potter at this time while her ex-husband held her treasured manuscript hostage.

Rowling gave birth to her daughter, Jessica, in 1993. This forced her to make a change. She left her abusive husband and moved to Scotland to be with her sister. Despite being near family, she felt isolated, afraid and questioning her worth. But she pressed on and wrote and she was grateful for this low time:

It stripped away the inessential. It showed me-even though I was a mess-candidly, I was a mess-I have this daughter-I had this love-a love like this I have never experienced before, and that was so powerful and I do remember continuing to work on that story.

I spent 17 years working on Potter and there are things I understand in that story that nobody else can possibly understand and which I stayed true to-and my own life improved and my own state of mind became healthier. I was so very committed to those parts that were plotted in darkness, as it were, because there was a truth to them, there was a power to them.”-JK Rowling

Harry Potter was not the overnight success. Joanne Rowling’s novel was rejected by 12 different publishers before a publishing house committed to the manuscript. Initially, only 500 copies of the book were to be released. The publishing company was apprehensive to use “Joanne” as they were not sure boys would read a book written by a female author, so Joanne became “JK”. What followed Joanne, a woman on welfare, was completely unexpected. JK Rowling became a “Feminist Cinderella Story” of sorts, and a household name. The story about a young, orphan boy named Harry Potter who had secret powers and who had no idea who he was-a young boy who felt unwanted and unaccepted and unloved, who found community and friends and people who cared about him was a hit beyond her wildest imagination. There were the midnight book release parties, journalists at her door…girls reading, boys reading…and book burnings…and the bomb threats.

It was early 2000 at a book signing when JK and her team first heard of a bomb threat. Harry Potter books were dark. They were mainstreaming witchcraft. It is the gateway to the occult. Divination is a class at Hogwarts. Evil lurks behind the covers of Harry Potter. This is a battle between good and evil. Yikes! Unicorn blood! Kids were becoming Wiccan. Harry Potter had the mark of Hitler’s SS on his forehead (it was a lighting bolt). Hollywood is glorifying witchcraft. I have sat in a church seat where the pastor alluded to Harry Potter as condoning “witchcraft”. (The same pastor, by the way, whose kids idolize Hip Hop artists and the Karsashians.)

JK Rowling had this to say about her witch hunt of the 2000’s:

There are two groups of people who think I’m wholeheartedly with them. One? Are people who believe passionately in the boarding school system. And the other group are practicing witches. I have to say, I’m not on either of those sides. I don’t believe in magic in that sense.”-JK Rowling

Yet, others accused Rowling of lying. She was a fan of witchcraft and wizardry-a witch herself. JK Rowling, according to some, was also a “secret nazi”.

A sense of righteousness is not incompatible with doing terrible things. Most of the people in these movements that we consider, hugely abhorrent, many, many, many people involved in those movements understood themselves to be on the side of righteousness.”-JK Rowling

Rowling says black and white thinking is the easiest place to be, the safest place to be. And the pendulum has swung over the years, I’ll say. Take a look:

And the mainstream, 24/7 news cycle is on a different kind of JK Rowling witch hunt in 2023. CNN ran this hit piece today instructing how listeners are to listen to The Witch Trials of JK Rowling. Rowling has not addressed her comments in these first two episodes. (Gee, CNN? Do you think the producers of the podcast are laying a foundation here?) Rowling has been bigoted against the transgender community since 2018. Trans people face a difficult reality and JK Rowling is magnifying these difficulties. (Excuse me? Saying you have a penis if you are a girl does not make a person steeped in reality.) And JK Rowling’s views (even though CNN complained that we have not yet heard her sound off on these views in this very piece) “continue to cause harm”.

This was not an opinion article, by the way. This is the journalistic excellence of CNN. This is how the brainwashed masses should listen to The Witch Trials of JK Rowling. The bias and the hate keep on rolling:

Does she remember, when she had nothing? Living in a car? She should have compassion for others.

— Truth (@enchantedtruth) February 21, 2023

My guess is this person who penned this did not even give the podcast a fair listen. May I suggest Chapter One. You know, where Rowling admits to being beaten and abused by a man in her life with a young child in the house? Where she admitted to being afraid for her and her young daughter?

Anti transgender or pro women?

— Lynn Dinsmore (@Pachamama_X) February 21, 2023

To the mob, it’s all anti-transgender. Some are praising the podcast. Some are calling it “a mind-numbing exercise in digression“. The LA Times just wants her to go away.

Oh, if only there were magic in this world! I would make so many artists who showed up at the Grammys go away. (Waves hand) Madonna? (Waves hand again) Sam Smith? Evanesco.

We watch the self-righteous, the black-and-white thinkers of the rainbow kingdom shoot off their opinions. Rowling said “black and white”, therefore she must be a hateful, racist bigot, nazi. The irony of all of this? These are the same people 20 years ago who would have been calling Christian fundamentalists insane for wanting to burn Rowling’s books. My, how the Quidditch tables have turned.

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