There are a lot of things that are slowing down the writing of my book. One of them is of course my job and all the other writing tasks I have agreed to. But another is where to go with some of the content in light of world events, including the bullshit being spewed by the author of the Harry Potter books. 

In my book, I regularly explore themes from Harry Potter and teaching materials developed and used in research and teaching because it is relevant to my book and shows the importance of tapping into student interest to elicit the kind of deep intensive reading and engagement that language learning requires. I had a lot of Millenial students in Sweden for whom Harry Potter was foundational to their interest in English and their own English language development. It does not make sense to ignore this.

However, I hate having to talk about the author and because seeing her name fills me with rage right now, I am avoiding using it as much as possible. A part of me would like to go through and completely remove all reference to her and simply refer to her as the author of the Harry Potter series because I would like her work to outlive her and also because I am influenced by a great statement of revenge that I think of each time the author uses her wealth to attack and gloat:

Your words will disappear. Your house will disappear. Your name will disappear. All memory of you will disappear.

Her words won't disappear but I would like to disappear her from my scholarship because she is so very useless. She will probably outlive me, so I won't get to enjoy her shutting the fuck up, but I would like to see a death of her relevance.  I would like foster a divergence where her name is more associated with her deranged ideologies than with her the source of fandom inspiration.