Opinion: Harry Potter lives on in us, not in J.K. Rowling's tweets (via latimesopinion)
Two years ago, I designed a tattoo for a friend, a celebration of the first anniversary of his gender transition. It was the Deathly Hallows symbol from the Harry Potter series, with the quote “You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be” underneath.
It would be years before I met my friend or embarked on my own transition. But I found myself in the pages of J.K. Rowling’s books long before that journey. Queer and trans parallels aren’t hard to come by in those books, from closet metaphors to themes about loss and loneliness growing up. The series is full of social outcasts building a found family that accepts them for who they are. The night I came out to my parents, I sat where I’d first read Harry Potter and exhaled.
As we grow, we come to learn that the world is often less welcoming than it is in books, and goodness more difficult to define. Sometimes the people we admire, who we feel shaped us, are fallible and cruel. When Harry summoned his broom, disarmed an opponent, or created light to banish shadows, he said a spell and made it so. I think the wizarding world is on to something in knowing that power can rest in names like Voldemort or Dumbledore.
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