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Warner Bros. recently announced Hogwarts Legacy has sold over 15 million copies and grossed over $1 billion. That’s in spite of some underwhelmed reviews criticizing its lack of imagination and rote open world. An intense debate around a boycott of the game due to the transphobic baggage surrounding the author of its source material, J.K. Rowling, doesn’t appear to have derailed it either, though it has led many longtime fans to re-evaluate their personal relationship with fiction.

While not part of the game’s development, Rowling still collects royalty checks from her licensing deals with Warner Bros. and doesn’t appear keen to stop overshadowing the Harry Potter world anytime soon. The author is also set to be an executive producer on a planned 10-year HBO TV adaptation of the books, with executives at the company dodging any accountability for the views she’s expressed in an era when there’s a full-blown assault on transgender rights.

“My appreciation for those books remains—but it is firmly in the past. Moving forward, I am not killing my memories of Harry Potter—the forays into role-playing forums, the fanfic I wrote, the dates at the movie theater,” wrote my colleague Linda Codega in an excellent essay over at io9. “I am killing the part of me that imagines any attempt to experience those specific moments again, to feel, for a second, as if I am a child, magically transported to Hogwarts—a place where your friends will support you, your family will find you, and the monsters are the creatures with blood under their claws—is worth supporting J.K. Rowling.”