Hogwarts Legacy is the latest video game adaptation of the Harry Potter franchise, and was a highly anticipated new title until its global release on the 10th of February. It is looking as though it is set to break sales records across the board, currently beating the previously most anticipated title, Elden Ring, by 80% in their like-for-like first weeks of sales. It goes without saying that its release has been met with ubiquitous, global excitement – but there is one group of people for whom Hogwarts Legacy is a source of consternation and ire. That group is, of course, the LGBT community, more specifically the T in LGBT.
J. K. Rowling has, in the past, made statements that (whether they actually were or not) have been perceived to be disparaging of the transsexual element of the LGBT community. Trans activists, being the Dementors they are, roam the netscape like joyless ghouls, sucking the light and life essence out of their targets until nothing remains but a broken husk, as devoid of vitality and humanity as they are.
It is not enough for the trans activists to hate J. K. Rowling or the newly released video game based on her books. They demand that everyone else hates it all too. They have made transsexual politics their entire personality, and they find it inconceivable that anyone else has decided not to do the same. That doesn’t matter to them, however, as – whether you are as laser focused in your awareness of transsexual issues as they are or not – they demand your absolute compliance with their diktats.
The reality is that most people are not that aware of what Rowling has previously said on the topic of LGBT politics, and even if they are, they do not care. The Harry Potter intellectual property is loved by many, and despite what views Rowling may hold in her personal life, many do not directly associate the books, films, or in this case games, with the personal opinions of their progenitor, nor do they painstakingly research every work of fiction to determine their creator’s views before they make the decision to buy a copy. For most, purchasing a copy of Hogwarts Legacy is not a grandstanding political statement (a fact also inconcievable to the trans activist circles), they just want to escape the mundanity of their daily lives briefly and vicariously pretend to be a wizard for a while.
One of the activists involved created a website, “Have They Streamed That Wizard Game?”, which monitored the streaming website Twitch, and documented a list of streamers who played the game and shared footage. This naturally led to orchestrated harassment campaigns, which I am sure was the intention all along. I would say that they were targeted campaigns, but they had all the precision and elegance of a carpet bombing. Many of the streamers who were targeted for being hateful Nazi bigots were, in actuality, unaware of the controversy surrounding the subject, and were merely attempting to share in the excitement of the interactive experience of a beloved fantasy world with like-minded fans. In numerous cases, the harassment made it untenable for the streams to continue, and forced them to shut down prematurely. There is at least one case of a streamer breaking down in tears live on air after being subjected to these hateful, subhuman goblins’ endless vitriol.
For a group that likes to compare others to Nazis, they certainly enjoy utilising very similar tactics themselves.
The same detachment from reality that renders them incapable of understanding that most people are not as sensitive to LGBT issues as they are also renders them incapable of understanding that despicable behaviour as this will only serve to alienate people, both from their message and from them as people. Many of the trans activists that weighed in on the topic leading up to the release date also made vague and feeble threats to the people adjacent to them, suggesting that anyone who supported the game by playing (or worse, buying) it would be cut out of their lives. The overarching theme of these threats can be summarised thusly:
‘If you buy a copy of this game, you don’t care about trans people’.
Well, the global sales records continue to speak volumes, and the response is ‘no, I guess we don’t’.
Ghostleigh 
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