#which did occur in 2013 so a bit too late for jkr to draw reference from

[mighty-meerkat]

look i am absolutely not trying to retcon She Who Must Not Be Named into some kind of Secret Progressive, but like...

can anyone else who has read Goblet of Fire and also has a passing familiarity with the worst of British early-00s tabloid culture (think the Sun, the Mail, the Express), confirm that Rita Skeeter's hit-job on Hagrid bears more than a passing resemblance to the sort of transphobic harassment of random trans people that jkr now actively promotes?