J.K. Rowling just can't let go of Harry Potter, and this meme calls her out for it.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the last book in the series, was released in 2008. The movie version of the finale was released in 2011. But in the last eight years, J.K. Rowling has been milking the franchise dry with "Pottermore" short stories and dropping random details about Hogwarts and its dwellers years after the books were published. (In fairness, if you write Harry Potter, you're probably allowed to never live it down.)
Retroactive additions to the story include trying to make the series more diverse, like claiming that Hogwarts had Jewish students (despite never mentioning them in the story), and some inexplicably nasty history, like stating that witches and wizards simply shit themselves before the castle had indoor plumbing. (Why?) Read more...
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