Now this is some funny stuff:

J.K. Rowling’s History of Magic in North America Was a Travesty From Start to Finish

The short form is this… in preparation of the new Potterverse movie coming out in a few months, J.K. Rowling has written a few short pieces that detail the history of magic in the USA from Ancient Time up to about 1920 (the timeframe of the new movie). And as described in the linked article, the history *is* pretty laughable. But for frak’s sake, it’s a story about wizards and magic. Of Course it’ll be ludicrous.

There are several aspects that irritate historians (the magical community in the US is governed by the “Magical Congress of the United States of America,” which was somehow formed in 1693… *juuuust* a few years before the United States of America existed), Native Americans (descriptions of Native Amerinjun magic that’s apparently a lame cliche-filled stereotype), and black folks (some weird discussion about segregation in the magical community being a badly-formed allegory for racism in the US). And so the writer of the article suggests that an English white woman simply shouldn’t write about such things. To back up that position, “Cherokee scholar Dr. Adrienne Keene” is quoted as saying:

What happens when Rowling pulls this in, is we as Native people are now opened up to a barrage of questions about these beliefs and traditions (take a look at my twitter mentions if you don’t believe me)–but these are not things that need or should be discussed by outsiders. At all.

Let me emphasize something she wrote:

these are not things that need or should be discussed by outsiders. At all.

Screw you, lady. Just for that I’m tempted to write a crummy sci-fi story filled with plot holes and spelling errors that will be filled with Cherokee mystical beliefs… but to simplify research, I’m going to simply crib some magic-based plot elements from “The Smurfs” and plaster Cherokee concept names over the smurf names.

First rule of Skinwalkers Club? Don’t talk about Skinwalkers Club.

Time comes when you realize you’re getting all offended and upset about some bits of Harry Potter… you should learn to lighten up, Francis.