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incredible contributions to literature

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who else could have come up with names like "Cho Chang" or thought of loading up banking goblins with antisemitic tropes

Or making the only Irish character a pyromanic, mere years after the end of The Troubles
- Or saying in an interview "the werewolves can be seen as an allegory for gay people and how they were treated during the AIDS epidemic", then making the leader of the werewolves in her next book a literal groomer who deliberately infects young boys with lycanthropy

Transphobia aside (I can't believe I'm saying this) what contributions to literature? I'm not the most well read person, but even I know that everything JKR has written is drivel: racist, homophobic, antisemitic garbage that's as devoid of literary value as advertisement copy.

Even outside of reactionary garbage it's definitely not great literature
- It's not even good children's literature. Unfortunately these days seems most of it is terrible.
- It’s mid for sure. Lots of better kids books out there in terms of both literary quality and entertainment. As a kid I read them (obligatory for any kid who read a lot in my generation) but there weren’t even in my top 10 book series.
  
  I preferred Artemis Fowl, Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit, Series of Unfortunate Events, Bartimaeus Trilogy, Redwall series, Animorphs, Chronicles of Narnia, the Eragon series (not great literary quality but I still liked it), Ender’s Game series (good quality but another questionable crank author).
Yeah it's ridiculous. She's terrible and her books are terrible.
- It's ok to have never read any of the Harry Potter books
I think one could argue that the HP books got kids to read more but I don't know to what extent that's true, and that's still easily counteracted by all the harm she has done with the profits of her book sales. In terms of actually "contributions to literature", IIRC even most of her fans agree that everything after the third book is pretty shit.
- I think one could argue that the HP books got kids to read more but I don't know to what extent that's true
  
  What got kids into it was the international PR campaign for the Harry Potter series. This shit was marketed hard back in the day, and "Harry Potter gets kids to read books again!" was a core selling point in that.
- If one were to argue such, I would say it was a very poor argument. There were plenty of other, quality fantasy series out that were targeting the same age group at the time her books were being written. The genre was slightly novel and it was just pushed on kids at school as the new shiny series.
She made a lot of money for investors.