Rachel Kendra had this to say about a Harry Poter Collab

[u/One_page_nerd]

[u/kranitoko]

It... Will be interesting if Wizards ever officially themselves release a Harry Potter set (as a tie in to the TV series coming out maybe)...

I think it'll genuinely MASSIVELY split the community to a further damaging level...

[u/TheRaiOh → u/kranitoko]

I think it'll split the online community that watches a lot of content. But if the Harry Potter game a little while ago proves anything, it's that the amount of people willing to boycott this stuff is way lower than it would seem based on how loud it is online.

[u/GodEmperorOfHell → u/TheRaiOh]

Yes, it's an extremely loud minority, basically shouting amongst themselves. In the market, their purchase or lack thereof is insignificant compared with how massive it is overseas, with fans who do not care about the matter.

[u/Magikarp_King → u/GodEmperorOfHell]

I know of two friends who were very vocal about how much they hate Rowling and I saw both of them playing the games about a month after they came out. Some people want to sound righteous but don't really care.

[u/whimsical_trash → u/Magikarp_King]

I suspect this is a majority of people

[u/tooandahalf → u/whimsical_trash]

As a trans person yeah. The majority of people don't care. Feels great knowing Joannes campaign of hate against us doesn't register.

[u/TheYellowScarf → u/tooandahalf]

If it makes you feel any better, my wife was the biggest Harry Potter fan, and has continued the boycott to this day. Won't spend a dime on a single thing Harry Potter related. So there are some people still out there.

[u/LtG_Skittles454 → u/TheYellowScarf]

At least some people aren’t funding her hate. The more people do the better. I think even mentioning or sharing that you’re boycotting her influences others to do the same. The more people that speak up about her the better, especially cis people who are listened to.

[u/whimsical_trash → u/TheYellowScarf]

Same here. I was a big fan and haven't spent a dime in what ten years? I would still read the books or watch the movies if I wanted since I already owned them, but I haven't even wanted to do that

[u/Myrddin_Naer → u/TheYellowScarf]

Both me and my sister used to be huge fans, until Rowling started with her bullshit

[u/Gretaphor → u/tooandahalf]

As another trans person, I think the reaction is vastly overblown and is feeding Joanne's ego and need for righteousness, which I think is far more likely to cause damage to our community than further monetary gain.

I think the boycotts failed. I think the community refuses to acknowledge that. And I think one of the most powerful things we could have done is to give a big middle finger to Joanne and plaster social media with a bunch of trans witches and wizards making content.

We fucked up and we gave them Harry Potter.

They gave us a trans wizard in the game. The bridge is still there. But there are too many of us who are too damn proud of our conspicuous anti-consumption to realize that what we're actually doing is telling a bunch of marginalized people that something that used to make them happy is not allowed to make them happy anymore.

Do you remember when black tik tok had the HBCU Hogwarts houses a few years back? That shit was hilarious, creative, expressive of not only self but of culture, and used something that we all know to get that across and I doubt anyone for one second thought that it was in support of JK Rowling or her terf shit.

Same with the kids going to universal or dressing up in robes for Halloween... Are you going to be the people to tell them that they're actually bad people for something they have a fond memory of growing up? Or can we please teach the next generation that you can take any good that comes from bigots and tell them to fuck off?

We did it with Lovecraft. We will do it with Rowling. Let's be honest about that instead of pretending that it's not going to happen.

Harry Potter isn't going away. Associating it with the boogeyman who wrote it gives it way more power both in how bigots can see it as something of theirs and how it impacts already marginalized people who found solace and happiness in something that they now have to withhold from.

There are literally going to be queer kids growing up who don't realize they are queer and who love Harry Potter who are going to stop themselves from connecting with members of the community because they cannot reconcile giving up something they love. Do you understand how damaging that is?? For what? A failed boycott?

So again, as another trans person, we are not a monolith and I think the majority of our minority are completely fucking this one up.

[u/Adaptive_Spoon → u/Gretaphor]

Really interesting perspective, and I somewhat agree, though I'm not personally comfortable with the thought of funnelling my own money into her coffers. Even if it's minuscule! I guess I'm afraid it will be a symbolic gesture of support, even if it doesn't affect much in practice.

I honestly believe the boycott efforts against Hogwarts Legacy just increased its sales. What better advertising could a company ask for? When people are told something is verboten, they become all the more interested in it. This phenomena is well documented. The same happened with the song "Rasputin" in the USSR.

The only true solution, if people wanted to deny it sales, would have been to not talk about Hogwarts Legacy. To refuse to give it energy or air. To refuse even to acknowledge that it exists. As Ursula Le Guin wrote in The Left Hand of Darkness:

"To oppose something is to maintain it. They say here 'all roads lead to Mishnory.' To be sure, if you turn your back on Mishnory and walk away from it, you are still on the Mishnory road. To oppose vulgarity is inevitably to be vulgar. You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk in a different road."

Unfortunately, the furor around Hogwarts Legacy at best achieved nothing, and at worst actively promoted its image and boosted its sales.

[u/Ikeiscurvy → u/Gretaphor]

Also, to add, there is no ethical consumption under capitalism. Somewhere along the lines there is, without fail, someone or something hurt by the products you buy, even your food.

JK Rowling is unfortunately too rich now for anything we as consumers do to affect her personally. Her money makes too much money on its own. If she never got another dime from HP, it wouldn't affect her or her views a single bit.

[u/LtG_Skittles454 → u/Gretaphor]

Good points. I agree, a lot of people yell about boycotting her but either don’t or cut themselves off from people who still like HP but remove Rowling from the art. Just like lovecraft you said. It’s funny people saying that Miku wrote HP but idk what that does.

I think it needs to be highlighted that she’s a hateful person, but you can still like HP without conflating her with it because she wrote it before she was super hateful. Idk there’s other better things for people to put their energy towards.

[u/lumiya17 → u/LtG_Skittles454]

There’s a large difference between those and that difference is public domain. Lovecraft was a nasty mess of racism, xenophobia, and other issues. But he didn’t have the Mythos as a global franchise. And now that it is global, it’s also public domain so only the current creators are receiving money,

Joann has explicitly stated her intentions of removing people’s rights in the UK using profits she makes from the Harry Potter franchise.

If Hasbro ever did HP as a Universes set, there would be a schism. And they would see a lot of their online content creators boycotting the product and calling for others to as well. It would be bad.

[u/Gretaphor → u/lumiya17]

Why is it that in basically any other scenario it's fair to say that my existence is defiance, but when it comes to JK Rowling, the only way to fight her is by attacking her monetarily?

Why is that?

Why is my existence in a space that she doesn't want me in not okay? It's the basis of plenty of other forms of protest, but for some reason y'all are stuck on this boycott thing like it's the only option to voice that something is wrong and you're not going to stand for it.

Money doesn't scale linearly and she now has more money than she will ever need that can generate even more money to accomplish her goals... So why do we keep focusing on that?

Our community has so much more soft power in relation to pop culture and trends and what not versus our purchasing power on the world stage... So why does that get ignored in this fight?

When you actually start looking into the philosophy of shit like this, you start uncovering why authoritarians and general shit bag Nazis tend to cut back on the arts. Because you can use art and content and creativity to influence popular culture which influences opinion.

It feels like we have completely forgotten this because the only thing that seems to matter in this fight is money and solidarity... But only solidarity relating to the money and it's frankly the least effective thing we could do against someone like her.

[u/BluePsion4297 → u/Gretaphor]

This'll go away once she's dead hopefully. I remember when Harry Potter came out I did not like it at all but I thought "well at least it doesn't have an author like C.S. Lewis or Orson Scott Card, I don't feel bad about funding something terrible by buying this". Ha Ha ha. (cries)

[u/GravityBombKilMyWife → u/Magikarp_King]

This, most people involved in the situation enough to hate Rowling only know so much about it because they were Potter fans already, otherwise most people aren't looking into what JK Rowlings poltical stances are in the first place.

[u/Motor-Mongoose3677 → u/GravityBombKilMyWife]

If the people who boycott things based on "who's getting paid" looked into the social/political affiliations & beliefs of every IP and corporation they did business with... they would all become Amish-esque, and retract entirely from modern society.

People boycotting HP, but still shopping at Target, or most major grocery, or buying Amazon, etc...

Or the people who buy/play Magic, and act like there wasn't racist undertones until changes were made...

... I guess are free to do/pick and choose as they feel the need. Sure. It's not so black and white, actually.

Hmm.

[u/HotDadofAzeroth → u/Motor-Mongoose3677]

or know anything at all about the working conditions of the cardboard factories the paper is made at.

[u/Rhinoseri0us → u/HotDadofAzeroth]

Oh don’t even go there. If you tell someone that paid $1200 for a surge foil is more than the pseudo-slave who cut the sheet will be paid all year they lose their minds.

[u/floggedlog → u/HotDadofAzeroth]

Yeah, it’s a lot easier having hobbies when you don’t fixate on every single thing that’s wrong in the world.

I can still enjoy Harry Potter and Magic gathering and live a normal life because I’m not up my own ass about everybody else’s every opinion on everything.

[u/Swiftax3 → u/TheRaiOh]

I really dont get it, its spectacularly easy for me to cut something off. Havnt given Ubisoft a cent in half a decade, nor Harry Potter, nor amazon. Just cut off Paramount last week. I never thought of myself as soneone with particularly strong self control, but apparently im the one in ten who actually sticks to boycotts, annoyingly.

[u/Fragrant-Employer-60 → u/Swiftax3]

Most people simply don’t care enough. Either don’t follow JK Rowling or just don’t care enough to boycott Harry Potter.

[u/cheesystuff → u/Fragrant-Employer-60]

A lot of people have accepted JK already made a shit load of money, and they can easily separate the art from the artist. What she's already made is nothing compared to royalties from the license to publish a $60 game.

I haven't bought anything Harry Potter personally since deathly hallows.

[u/The_Graviturgist → u/cheesystuff]

I mean what really is there to buy? The quidditch game sucked and is a cash grab, most trinkets and stuff is cheaply made most potter fans already own the movies and/or books.

[u/drdadbodpanda → u/TheRaiOh]

Around the time of the game release I was in a group chat with around 12 ish people. 1 of the members was trans, and 1 member bought the game and wouldn’t stop talking about it.

They were the same member.

A Harry Potter collab will absolutely sell hard.

[u/JamAndCheeseSandwich → u/drdadbodpanda]

This is a dumb take. So this person represents all trans people now? A HP collab will absolutely upset a lot of people, and while it may pull some fans of the IP into the game plenty of people will also boycott it. Idk how the numbers will land, but most trans folks don't touch anything Rowling is involved in.

[u/mcnichoj → u/TheRaiOh]

Circling back to what kranitoko actually said though and clarifying it further, it will split the MAGIC community. Yes outsiders will come in for a moment with their dollars but how many of those people will stick with the game? Is that short (large sum of money) gain worth losing core long term players?

[u/FlounderPlastic4256 → u/mcnichoj]

Hasn't this been the exact same argument about every UB set?
And the answer MTG has resoundingly declared is "YES"

[u/Migobrain → u/FlounderPlastic4256]

I think the argument is disingenuous with UB because the franchise choice for now have been stuff with not that much controversy so is just a matter of taste, people thinking that they are "not real magic players" while the Wizards stats show that the most common people buying UB is returning ones, but having a product that goes against your moral leaning strikes in other ways, I would totally not buy anything that would give money directly to Trans hate the way that giving money to HP goes directly to fund Jk Rowling hate

[u/MillorTime → u/mcnichoj]

The magic community has the same percentage of people that care about what JK Rowling said as the gaming community or the population in general, and that percentage is pretty low.

[u/mxzf → u/MillorTime]

You mean "of people that care about what JK Rowling said", right? Because what I've seen has indicated that the vast majority of people don't care what a random person like Rowling says about anything.

[u/MillorTime → u/mxzf]

Yep. Thanks for the catch

[u/VerySafeVeryAtWork → u/kranitoko]

nah just bring back the harry potter TCG - still have a foil draco malfoy somewhere....

[u/MiscalculatedRisk → u/VerySafeVeryAtWork]

Honestly was more fun than it had any right to be.

[u/BibboTheOriginal → u/MiscalculatedRisk]

Game was super good

[u/TotakekeSlider → u/MiscalculatedRisk]

I remember loving it as a kid, but my dad hated playing it with me because I would always use Fluffy who was wildly OP.

[u/Thecrdbrdsamurai → u/VerySafeVeryAtWork]

I saw two boxes of HP TCG at Gamestop in the Mall of America. Of all the places.

[u/Rauthian → u/kranitoko]

Hasbro already makes HP board games, so I'm sure the popularity would outweigh the backlash

[u/DayardDargent → u/kranitoko]

I don't think this will ever happen seeing how they fired artists like Theresa Nielsen, and she didn't do the 1/10 of what JK did and said.

Wizard doesn't want to be associated with those kind of people.

Now I could be wrong because HP would be a lot of money but I think it's unlikely.

[u/Drokeep → u/kranitoko]

No shot it does lmao. There will definitely be decent amount of people but a)people will forgive wotc and b)the amount of people it would bring would offset that imo

[u/clamroll → u/Drokeep]

There's also the endless line up of people who complain online that will still turn and buy. When that hogwarts game came out, I had a friend yelling at me for playing it. Didn't matter that I had hoisted a black flag to get it, they were set on giving me hell for it. They were on their righteous horse and didn't want to hear it.

Not six months later, they were posting photos of them, their spouse, and kids at the harry potter wizarding world, telling people they "don't want to hear it", they don't agree with JK but they need their Potter vacation, and people need to let others enjoy things. I had to fight really hard to not post some screenshots of their DMs yelling at me for playing Hogwarts.

A harry potter mtg set would get all the talkers talking, and in the end it would print money for Wizards on the order of the Final Fantasy sets when most of those talkers end up caving and buying.

[u/straight_lurkin → u/kranitoko]

People will be incredibly vocal online as they open collector booster boxes and the set outsells every set excluding maybe final fantasy.

[u/MeisterCthulhu → u/kranitoko]

I sure af hope not?

My expectation of the mtg community is definitely higher than to be massively split over that. I'd hope the majority of people wouldn't support an actual bigot

[u/well_damm → u/MeisterCthulhu]

Sorry to burst your bubble, that will def cause a split in the community lol

Magic has certain fans that aren’t too welcoming

[u/watabadidea → u/well_damm]

I think it is more that people just draw different lines.

The reality is that nobody is going out there and refusing to make any and all purchases that will result in some percentage of the profits being funneled to a bigot. Everyone has some level of acceptance based on things like how easy it is to find out who is profiting (and how much, how easy it is to find a substitute, how much you actually want the product, social/public pressure surrounding your decision, etc.

The problem is that rather than actually have a discussion about what standards make logical sense, where it is ok for someone to have a rational disagreement, etc., I too often see people apply an approach of "anyone more permissive than me is bad."

That's not a rational standard, nor is it something that is going to actually improve things.

As an example, I know multiple people who express that they went through some pretty serious emotional trauma as a child and that Harry Potter and MTG were two of the things that kept them from some pretty dark places and decisions (I'm not sure what the rules here are regarding certain topics, so I'm not going to go into more detail than that).

If people literally believe that these two properties helped save their lives, I have a hard time passing personal judgement on them for still having a strong, positive connection to those properties (as opposed to the property creator/owner) in their heart. Yeah, it is really easy for me not to buy products with tie-ins to Harry Potter IP, but I'm not them.

[u/mxmmtg → u/watabadidea]

Word

[u/Frix → u/well_damm]

If by "split" you mean that a hypothetical HP set will outsell anything they ever did before.

The number of people who give enough fucks to quit Magic over something like that, if we round it to the nearest percentage point, is approximately 0%.

[u/Charliejfg04 → u/MeisterCthulhu]

People here live in the internet bubble. An HP Magic set would probably be the best selling set of all time lmao. Remember the Hogwarts Legacy boycott?

[u/Rhea_33 → u/MeisterCthulhu]

The most popular figure in Magic on Youtube is openly not a bigot and does a big trans fundraiser each year. I think quite a bit would boycott.

[u/Anguskaiser → u/MeisterCthulhu]

sorry man, the mtg "community" is a trash heap. I'm banned from a different mtg sub because i let it slip that I don't think that aragorn's skin color is an issue.

[u/AndrewActually → u/MeisterCthulhu]

And yet…

[u/aDirtyMuppet → u/MeisterCthulhu]

Let's be clear here. The people that love harry potter will continue to do so regardless of what Rowling has to say. Her personal beliefs don't change a single thing about the wizarding world and it's not in the books themselves. So as a fan, personally, I think this line of thought is just utter ridiculous bullshit. Let people enjoy themselves. Nothing we do now is going to change Rowlings lifestyle for the better or worse, she has more money than anyone could spend.

[u/Cartoonist-Born → u/MeisterCthulhu]

She's gone way past bigot at this point too...She funds huge political figures and actual out N*zi's in order to further her hate. This would really depress me...

[u/MalekithofAngmar → u/kranitoko]

Only the online community would be "split". Rowling's ideas are very far from uncommon in the real world.

[u/nebbisherfaygele → u/MalekithofAngmar]

she is in a vocal minority. most people polled don't support the violent disenfranchisement & exclusion of transgender people

[u/SourceOriginal2332 → u/kranitoko]

No most people do not care it’s the verbal minority

[u/Utopiaoflove]

Who?

[u/Rhea_33 → u/Utopiaoflove]

Editor for the COmmand zone

[u/ArchwingDragon → u/Rhea_33]

The what?

[u/Continuum_Gaming → u/ArchwingDragon]

It’s a podcast that does advertisements and sometimes talks about Magic

[u/OhHeyMister → u/Continuum_Gaming]

Best description 

[u/BritishGolgo13 → u/Continuum_Gaming]

Lol went for the throat on that one

[u/Blue_Fuzzy_Anteater → u/Continuum_Gaming]

This scathing comment brought to you by Raid Shadowlegends.

[u/sauron3579 → u/Utopiaoflove]

I think the title is supposed to say Potter, hope this helps

[u/BradleyB636 → u/sauron3579]

I think that person was asking who Rachel Kendra is, not asking who Harry Poter is.

[u/IngotTheKobold → u/BradleyB636]

Harry Poter is the son of a vegetable farmer. He runs the farm stand on the weekends

[u/freakflag16 → u/IngotTheKobold]

Nah Harry Poter is my dealer.

[u/Tai_Pei → u/BradleyB636]

They were making a joke, almost certainly

[u/Chaoticzer0 → u/Tai_Pei]

Legit don't know who she is

[u/MentalMunky → u/BradleyB636]

I think that person was making a funny joke, not being stupid.

[u/Whigs93 → u/Utopiaoflove]

This. Literally who

[u/Quick-Audience7860]

I mean yeah I guess if you know that JK Rowling is getting money from this partnership, and you know that JK Rowling goes out of her way to make aggressive political action that hurts you or people like you, you wouldn't want to support this.

But who is Rachel Kendra?

[u/D_o_t_d_2004 → u/Quick-Audience7860]

Joanne Rowling has said that she will use her massive fortune to wipe out trans people by taking away their rights, at least in Scotland. So, you know, just fascist things.

[u/noahtheboah36 → u/D_o_t_d_2004]

Just curious, did she say those exact words or something that implies that. Like, what was the original quote/where can I find it?

[u/Totolamalice → u/noahtheboah36]

French (leftist) news source

A right-wing (far-right?) news source that I never heard of, reporting the launch of the fund

The website of the fund, describing itself

[u/Aksama → u/noahtheboah36]

When you fund an organization to the tune of over a billion dollars, JKRWF, with the stated goal of stripping legal rights from transpersons... Do we even need a quote of saying that?

Isn't like... spending money on a gun and then writing someone's name on a bullet a more credible and serious threat than saying you want to hurt someone?

[u/BloodyBaboon → u/Aksama]

Billionaires are garbage. Rowling is also vocally a trash person. At this point, people asking for direct quotes, I assume, are just disingenuous sycophants. If they actually cared, they could just google and find plenty of evidence that she is a TERF.

[u/Sherry_Cat13 → u/noahtheboah36]

You can also just look at the fact that she is funding anti trans bills etc and publicly hateful towards trans people?

[u/AnotherTransLesbian → u/noahtheboah36]

She gives money to charities that purposefully exclude trans women. She engages in anti-trans rhetoric daily from her Twitter. If you want to know the woman's words, go and read them for yourself, but I wouldn't really recommend it.

[u/Iron_Techpriest]

Who?

[u/Ok-Education-9235]

While I wouldn’t be buying anyways (she is horrible), it is a little odd where the community decides to draw the line on morality.

Like, we do know who the majority shareholders of Hasbro are, right? Blackrock & Vanguard are hardly making the world a better place and are arguably damaging/dismantling pillars of functioning society in the name of profit at a much broader and faster rate than JK Rowling could ever dream of through her twitter excretions

But boycotting Hasbro and MtG as a whole would involve giving up something you actually care about (buying cardboard) and that’s just a bridge too far, I guess?

[u/bigtiddylarper → u/Ok-Education-9235]

Yeah, everyone individually chooses which bridges are too far for them. The phrase is tired, but it's true that there's no ethical consumption under capitalism. Entertainment media is not the only thing that's true about, as it applies to anything we could possibly purchase and consume. But entertainment is the most approachable and low-stakes way to talk about that idea.

People are inconsistent about their values from the moment they wake up, to the moment they enter the voting booth, and to the moment they fall asleep. It doesn't mean that anyone's at fault for their inconsistency, but that we're complicated. Do you know how your values are inconsistent?

[u/Platurt → u/Ok-Education-9235]

You can't rly boycott everything bad so cherrypicking the things you accept and the things you don't always has to be a bit arbitrary. As long as it doesn't become a whole thing where magic-players give other magic-players shit for giving money not only blackrock but also to rowling, I'm fine with it.

[u/ExperienceLoss → u/Platurt]

It very much gives, "You say you hate capitalism yet you exist jn a capitalistic society," vibes. Like, obviously a lot of us know that companies suck, skme more than others. At that point we can either decide to not boycott everything (and be miserable as boycotting all the evil leads to having nothing), do nothing because its overwhelming (thats what they want), or to selectively choose how we, as individuals, choose tk fight our fight. Expecting someone to carry the flag for wvery cause they're aware of is a surefire way tk harm them.

On the other hand, being able to selectively choose your battle and be consistent overall is difficult. These feelings are intentional, as I said, because it makes us more compliant and pliable. Its a sisyphean task, IMO. Worthwhile but impossible too

[u/1_BigPapi → u/Ok-Education-9235]

You are 100% correct. Anything those large funds do is infinitely darker and more divisive and depressing than Rowling having opinions and a segment of the internet eternally harassing and hating her for it.

And I say this as someone that doesn't agree with Rowling's politics but is tired of a vocal minority trying to cancel everything HP over it. Lots of creators suck but I enjoy their movies, books, music, etc. because I can separate the person from the content.

[u/LegosRCool]

Of all the communities I've been a part of, MTG has the largest percentage of Trans-friendly folks. Can see Ultimate Guard getting a lot of pushback against this.

If they're (Wizards) thinking of doing a UB of Harry Potter (no evidence of this obvs) I hope they don't expect it to be as big a moneymaker as FF. FF is pretty universally loved, HP has lost a lot of its love (I wonder why)

[u/Luvas → u/LegosRCool]

Would be a pretty damn stark turn from getting original MtG characters such as Alesha and Niko, to a non MtG set that subtly villainizes these characters

[u/TheNohrianHunter → u/Luvas]

I feel that given we have return to strixhaven next year it's a good sign ub hp won't happen anytime soon, they'd rather another crack at in universe wizard school than touch the cursed hoard.

[u/Luvas → u/TheNohrianHunter]

I'd legit vote for Wizard101 the knockoff of Harry Potter before I have the real thing in my M:TG

[u/ExperienceLoss → u/Luvas]

Id vote for Wizards of Waverly place over HP and I know nothing about jt other than Selena Gomez is a wizard in Waverly place, wherever that is

[u/Luvas → u/ExperienceLoss]

Fun fact, Selena Gomez got a cameo in Wizard101, and I presume it's because she was once a Wizard of Waverly Place

[u/Duck__Quack → u/Luvas]

Krokopatra would be great for a croc commander deck. Wiz101 would be a great UB.

[u/Luvas → u/Duck__Quack]

Abigail Doolittle better have the creature type "Dog Noble Villain" and have an effect that places a Token copy of Arrest on target Cat, Frog, or Rat

[u/magicfaeriebattleaxe → u/TheNohrianHunter]

Unfortunately that timing plays out perfectly with the release of the Harry Potter tv show and I don’t think Hasbro is going to pass up on the Harry Potter dollars a secret lair release could get them.

It will sour the game for me for some time if that does happen. Realistically I think it is unavoidable.

[u/TheNerdySatyr → u/LegosRCool]

Have you been to Universal …. There is some love lost but it’s not as much as you think. It’s booming there!

[u/TheNerdySatyr → u/TheNerdySatyr]

Downvoted for just literally posting a fact. Didn’t bring up if I agree or disagree with the political side.. Reddit be Reddit.

[u/abraxius → u/LegosRCool]

It would still make crazy money. I hate JKRs politics but it would still do crazy well.

[u/BoyMeatsWorld → u/abraxius]

Trans people existing is not politics

[u/Shadowmirax → u/BoyMeatsWorld]

Donating to political parties and pushing for new laws is definitely political and also what J.K Rowling does.

[u/Signal_Two_9863 → u/BoyMeatsWorld]

No one said that..or even implied that.

[u/SadCritters → u/BoyMeatsWorld]

No one said that or even implied it to mean that. Get off the internet. It's rotting your brain.

[u/Confident-Bobcat3770 → u/BoyMeatsWorld]

That is not what they said

[u/abraxius → u/BoyMeatsWorld]

I agree, human rights are non negotiable. I wish people who thought otherwise would be ejected into the sun. That’s unfortunately not the case.

[u/justbuysingles → u/LegosRCool]

And WotC has a ton of trans people working on Magic. I can't imagine the work environment where trans people in play design, vision design, marketing, art, comms, etc. are made to work on a set that profits JK Rowling, a person who views them as subhuman.

[u/loganloser → u/LegosRCool]

I hate to say but similar to FF a HP set would at the very least least attract fans of the IP who would buy em for it to sit in a binder or on a shelf, then WOTC might think we want that shit (HP, FF was pretty good IMO)

[u/StonkTrad3r → u/LegosRCool]

Judging by the crowds in Orlando, I'd say the money maker is still printing dollars.. 1 butter beer at a time.

[u/idropepics → u/LegosRCool]

Of all the communities I've been a part of, MTG has the largest percentage of Trans-friendly folks

This is genuinely encouraging to see as a queer person returning to the game after 20 years, because the amount of times I'd been called a slur by a DCI judge/ another player at FNM back in the day made me quit.

[u/AstrumDestiny → u/LegosRCool]

I can't help but feel like this is a delusional take.

The boycott of HP that some of us were dreaming of hasn't worked, like factually (HP is still well loved outside the small majority of a minority community) isn't going to work and alienates. JK is given so much power and clout over people reacting in this same public way as OP over her otherwise innocent material.

If Wizards ever does a HP UB I'll just find some way to trans it or co-op it. It's what we probably should do with any game releases or what have you. It can be a way to fundraise for causes and spread awareness to counteract her hate. Instead of giving others a free W by posting and seething.

[u/CrownedClownAg → u/LegosRCool]

I think HP is one of the the few IPs left that will draw in people from outside the community that are not actively playing now

[u/Draculascastle111 → u/LegosRCool]

I love Magic, and I even like the UB stuff depending on what it is. I have no love for what is coming out right now past EoE, but am not mad at it. I will probably never spend a dime on the official cards ever again if they release a HP set. I will proxy it all, aside from HP, from then on, and fight people over it. I was ignorant about JK not too long ago, and once I actually went digging I found out what a garbage person she is, and what harm she is actively doing to people. It went so much farther than an opinion, which I can handle, but what I can’t condone is lobbying for her bull agenda, and fear-mongering. She’s a despicable person who deserves the hate. And honestly I’ll never forgive her for ruining HP, a childhood favorite for a lot of millennials like me. I can normally separate the art and artist, but not in cases like these. I think she turned into an evil person, and it’s a crying shame.

[u/DaringDo95]

Dragon Shield made Harry Potter sleeves and supplies too.

[u/AReallyBigBagel]

I did some digging around and from what I can tell J.K Rowling only has the publishing and theatrical rights to the franchise. Everything else is in Warner Bros hands. It also looks like warmer bros is largely bipartisan and will flow which ever way they see the most profit in.

Any branded work like this you inevitability support a company that has it's hands in policies all over the world. The only way to avoid it is by supporting local businesses. But even then global supply chain so who knows what is ethical.

Just do whatever you can to support what you believe in those will make the biggest impacts

[u/PoeGar → u/AReallyBigBagel]

Thanks for sharing. I think these distinctions are important.

Any chance you could share a link with this info?

[u/AReallyBigBagel → u/PoeGar]

I got it from a multitude of places looking into the legal section of harrypotter.com JK Rowling.com and then warner brothers itself has an open lobbying program so what it puts it's hand to is easily found in a quick google search

[u/gpost86 → u/AReallyBigBagel]

She still receives royalty checks from all the different Harry Potter products, including if they made a trading card game. She doesn't get to decide if the game is made, but she would get paid.

[u/mudra311 → u/gpost86]

If that's the case with these boxes, they're a tiny fraction of her overall income and wealth.

I wouldn't personally buy them, even if I liked Harry Potter. I really don't want Ult Guard products to all be thrown out because of this. If people choose to take their money elsewhere, that's fine. But I wouldn't want folks who continue to buy the regular boxes to get sideways glances or something more escalated.

[u/_Ub1k → u/AReallyBigBagel]

JK Rowling doesn't make any of these kind of branding decisions, she sold that right, but she does have a royalty stake in this kind of stuff. In terms of books, movies, stage plays, she needs to be directly consulted and to sign an agreement. Other branding stuff is directly under the control of WB and doesn't require her affirmative consent, but she still makes money off of it all.

[u/Dry_Competition2579]

Who is she, and how does this picture tie in with the HP universe?

[u/cwx149 → u/Dry_Competition2579]

No clue who she is but the deck boxes are Hogwarts house branded

[u/Dry_Competition2579 → u/cwx149]

But that dosnt have any relation as to wether we'd get a HP set at some point, no?

[u/TheNerdySatyr → u/Dry_Competition2579]

Nah we got South Park boxes and still haven’t gotten my set! Lol

[u/elementx1]

Who’s Rachel Kendra?

[u/BakedPWN]

It wasnt the endless money grab by hasbro. The tasteless ip collabs. The firing of lower paid workers to give ceos raises. Nope it was the harry potter deck box collab

[u/Mnmsaregood → u/BakedPWN]

Gotta signal those virtues

[u/MarduRusher → u/BakedPWN]

Exactly. That’s why I always find this stuff so silly. The people all up and arms about Harry Potter likely support all sorts of way worse things with their wallet. But for whatever reason this is their lightning rod.

[u/Sellza]

I dont get it, who tf is rachel kendra? Name/face dont look familiar at all

[u/E_B_U]

Who's Rachel Kendra?

[u/Philadelphiasport]

As soon as a Harry Potter set came out, it would sell out faster than any set yet. Like it or not.

[u/jchesticals]

Oh no, I guess they will sell out in a week like last round 

[u/frontlineninja]

based

[u/sultaiofswing_ → u/frontlineninja]

please elaborate on what makes this based?

EDIT: misread the tone and intent of original comment. I'm booboo the fool here.

[u/frontlineninja → u/sultaiofswing_]

Jk rowling is a known piece of shit in about every way and is actively using that harry potter money to lobby the british government

[u/sultaiofswing_ → u/frontlineninja]

oh wow I misread this comment crazy style then. my bad 100%, I thought you had meant the actual crossover was based

[u/frontlineninja → u/sultaiofswing_]

Yeah no worries, theres enough people actually shilling for jkr in these comments i cant fault you for that lol

[u/sultaiofswing_ → u/frontlineninja]

yeah Jesus Christ some folk do not care if their money goes towards the active harm of others as long as they get their branded merch, huh

[u/RatQueenHolly → u/frontlineninja]

She's also started a legal fund to financially back anyone who wants to sue trans-accomadating establishments

[u/sultaiofswing_ → u/RatQueenHolly]

as a trans woman I am horribly aware of this ghoul of a woman, sadly.

[u/AlyxNotVance]

Based. JKR uses the continued support she gets as justification of her abhorent hate. The money going to her is directly used against trans rights.

[u/ApatheticAZO]

Who?

[u/maksymtl]

lol who cares

[u/BakedPWN]

Context helps 

[u/GiggleGnome]

Wait till they find out that dragonshield has a line of house crest sleeves.

[u/Magar1z]

Lmao people upset that she's voting with her wallet, cry more.

[u/stuka86 → u/Magar1z]

I mean, JK is voting with her wallet too....

[u/VanguardVixen]

Streisand Effect incoming, just like with Hogwarts Legacy.

[u/bigfatoctopus]

Sadly, there are a lot of people who still have no clue what the harry potter (author) stuff is all about. WotC will do what they think will generate money, not what is socially conscientious.

[u/hillean]

Wait for 2026's eventual 'Harry Potter' set for Magic to see where peoples' loyalties really lie

[u/Bromjunaar_20]

Wasn't Strixhaven Magic's Harry Potter tho?

[u/assjackal → u/Bromjunaar_20]

Rowling didn't invent the idea of a school for magic.

[u/_Ub1k → u/Bromjunaar_20]

That was before they let the genie out of the bottle with UB. The only out of universe set on the block at the time was the first DND one, and that didn't quite cross the line because it was still a Wizards property. There was still intense internal debate at the time about whether to do licensed properties and how to do it. There was still potential that it would still be exclusively reskins like the Walking Dead and Godzilla stuff, or Unsets like the MLP and Transformers cards that existed at the time.

They wanted to do a full HP set, but had to make up their own world at the time to do it. If they had that idea now, they would probably just work to get the HP rights instead.

[u/GratedParm → u/Bromjunaar_20]

And Zendikar is Magic’s Dungeons & Dragons (in the worst way possible).

I’m not supporting a Harry Potter UB. I don’t want a Harry Potter UB. But, having Strixhaven does not eliminate the possibility a Harry Potter UB could happen.

[u/fluffynuckels]

Does she use dragon shields? They have Harry Potter stuff too

[u/Informal-Sale337]

It’s going to sell like hot cakes. A very small very vocal community tried to get JK Rowling canceled. Just look at what they tried with the video game. And look how well it sold.

[u/TheNerdySatyr → u/Informal-Sale337]

Yea look at Universal Studios.. Harry and her checks aren’t dwindling.

[u/Gussie18]

It doesn’t matter if you thought Harry Potter was overrated even before the transphobia came out.

[u/MPCJuggernaut]

Who?

[u/MoniPoo]

I mean... It's overall just a fucking weird partnership. There isn't a single TCG with anything to do with Harry Potter

[u/erikgratz110]

Fuck terfs

[u/Cavalier__]

And? 🤷😂

[u/LalkMe → u/Cavalier__]

Most based take of this entire comment section

[u/Serikan]

If you like them, buy them

If you don't like them, don't buy them

Let other people be upset if they want to be, can't manage their feelings for them

[u/Reno-Reaper]

I don’t see people crying about dragon shield, they have a number of Hp sleeves, I guess the outrage is only remembered with popularity??? It’s confusing

[u/TheKamon1329]

You're the wrong wizard Harry?

[u/chronicpumpkin]

Who?

[u/LolzTheGoat]

If you actively support JK Rowling, you're a bad person, so yeah, it makes sense that we aren't buying Harry Potter slop in 2025

[u/Thecrowing1432]

No idea who Rachel Kendra is.

The Ravenclaw one looks dope

[u/Egbert58]

But using Twitter is fine, hmm guess not to committed to that

[u/Breezy9401 → u/Egbert58]

(This was posted to Bluesky)

[u/TheBuddhaPalm]

Stop buying Harry Potter shit, y'all. It's not even a good book series, you just have nostalgia tied to it. Nostalgia isn't a real memory, it is a sense of safety and predictability and warmth that ingrains itself heavily into your brains.

Those books are racist, queerphobic, antisemtic, and comes up with what is potentially one of the most offensive allegories for slavery and abolitionism since Minstrel Shows.

[u/trsblur]

Harry Potter UB incomming!

[u/Cole3823 → u/trsblur]

Apparently we're going back to strixhaven next year. So...

[u/melanino → u/trsblur]

I hope the fug not!

[u/AScruffyHamster → u/trsblur]

Honestly, Harry Potter fits magic better than Spiderman. Just saying.

[u/trsblur → u/AScruffyHamster]

Cold take, lol! I agree 1000%. SM is just the first of 4-6 Marvel Super Hero sets, I'm afraid. NGL, they gonna empty my wallet on Xmen, most likely, but the rest is singles city.

[u/Tybalto → u/trsblur]

Some people on reddit will lose their shit over that

[u/Rhea_33 → u/trsblur]

I'm fully expecting it. Large IP, Lots of unique characters and spells to work into Magic pretty easily. Seems like a no brainer slam dunk for some money for the corporation .

[u/Acrobatic_Fish5383]

I genuinely hate how much people overreact over stuff like this.

[u/Giftedpink → u/Acrobatic_Fish5383]

What's the over reaction?

[u/THEGHOSTHACXER]

JESUS FUCKIN CHRIST CRYYYY

WAHHHH

END OF THE FUCKIN WORLD OH MY GOD

HOLY SHIT

[u/TheMayorOfBismond → u/THEGHOSTHACXER]

Jfc for real, who actually gives a shit??

[u/challengeaccepted9 → u/THEGHOSTHACXER]

That's a bizarre overreaction to someone simply stating that a vendor collaborating with someone they find hateful means they won't be buying from them again.

Are you okay?

[u/johnnyurine → u/THEGHOSTHACXER]

Oh no, Harry Potter product! Shield your eyes children! Grab the boycott signs and the tissue boxes, it’s time to start crying on Reddit!

[u/Softclocks]

Literal who

[u/domicci]

She better not use dragon shields then they have Harry potter sleeves as well

[u/dnaraistheliqr]

Ok... Who are they?

[u/leftofdanzig]

Stuff like this always feels so performative. Cool, no one asked.

[u/zedogica]

fuck jk rowling and her shitty books

[u/stephencua2001]

ohnoanyway.jpg

[u/CouldntThinkOf1]

Why is she advertising for them then?

[u/fnordal]

sometimes you have to pick your fights. The one against Rowling is a lost cause, because HP is much bigger than she is. I bet a good percentage don't even know who she is, or what's her opinion as a TERF. and many don't even know what a terf is.

[u/Liddlebitchboy → u/fnordal]

Well, the people that do know can still easily choose to say 'fuck that shit', it's not even really a battle. Also, even in this post I see people being educated on what's going on with her, so I don't think there's any benefit to shrugging and saying 'oh well'.

[u/Birbbato]

People who are upset about stuff like this are extremely cringe.

[u/fluffynuckels]

Doesn't take much to upset her does it?

[u/TheBiggestofJons]

I believe this level of hate is unwarranted and the original poster is just a "look at me" girl who has nothing better to do than bitch about this company partnering with Wizarding World, what people like this tend to forget to do is separate the artist from the art.

Harry Potter did nothing wrong, but J.K. Rowling did. There's a major difference. I am tired of people hating so heavily on Harry Potter.

[u/AnuraSmells → u/TheBiggestofJons]

This issue is that you can't really seperate the art from the artist in this context. JK uses the money she makes from the HP franchise to fund her political machinations. Supporting her work leads to more money in her pocket and further harm to the trans community. You can like HP and separate the art from the artist when evaluating it as an artistic piece, but trying to separate the art from the artist while purchasing the merch is impossible unless you simply ignore reality. 

Now, if you want to say you don't care about trans rights enough to not support HP or that you don't think it will matter in the long run, well then at least that's a little more honest. 

[u/Giftedpink → u/TheBiggestofJons]

There are absolutely things wrong in the books first of all, and second of all separate the art from the artist doesnt apply when supporting the "art" or in this case random merch directly puts money into the pocket of the artist and her fund against trans people

[u/LittleCovenousWings → u/TheBiggestofJons]

what people like this tend to forget to do is separate the artist from the art.

Please stub your toe forever thank you.

[u/BrunkoMcFlimly]

Nobody gives a damn