{"id":29278,"date":"2014-12-21T00:03:16","date_gmt":"2014-12-21T05:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=29278"},"modified":"2017-07-07T10:59:36","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T14:59:36","slug":"wicca-is-religions-answer-to-the-liberal-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/12\/21\/wicca-is-religions-answer-to-the-liberal-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Wicca is religion\u2019s answer to the Liberal Democrats&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All the British newspapers have apparently decided that it&#8217;s worth column-inches devoted to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/london\/2014\/12\/18\/jk-rowling-issues-blistering-bitchslap-to-wiccan-wannabes\/\" target=\"_blank\">random <em>Twitter<\/em> comments<\/a> of J.K. Rowling:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Of the various insights into the diversity of Hogwarts culture JK Rowling has been sharing on <em>Twitter<\/em> lately, one in particular caught my eye. It wasn\u2019t the revelation, reported by the <em>Guardian<\/em>, that the school had Jewish wizards. (So what?) Nor was it that Hogwarts probably had a few poofs in it. (We knew that already, didn\u2019t we?)<\/p>\n<p>No: what tickled me was her remark that the only group she never envisaged in the achingly multi-culti Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry was Wiccans, those <em>faux<\/em>-druidic attention-seekers and drop-outs obsessed with black candles, lesbianism and velvet gowns.<\/p>\n<p>Wiccans and those oddballs who dress up in bizarro costumes, redolent of cheap seasonal medieval re-enactment camps, who believe in magic (or, as they hilariously insist on spelling it, \u201cmagick\u201d) and the mystical forces of mother nature.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>What most fans will have taken from that, I\u2019m guessing, is: \u201cCome off it, even by the standards of my totally invented fantasy-land full of mystical creatures, boy wizards and horcruxes, those people are off their trolleys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You can tell rather a lot about those respective newspapers by which details they chose to lead their reports with. The <em>Guardian<\/em>, with its creepy Jewish obsession, leapt on Rowling\u2019s confirmation that Anthony Goldstein of Ravenclaw was semitic, while the <em>Independent<\/em> ran with her statement that \u201cof course\u201d Hogwarts would have been an LGBT-friendly place to learn how to magic up enchanted water.<\/p>\n<p>What neither of them saw fit to give due prominence to, though, was the fact that Wiccans, hilariously, are the only group in the Harry Potter universe incapable of performing magic. You\u2019d need a heart of stone not to laugh.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the British newspapers have apparently decided that it&#8217;s worth column-inches devoted to the random Twitter comments of J.K. Rowling: Of the various insights into the diversity of Hogwarts culture JK Rowling has been sharing on Twitter lately, one in particular caught my eye. It wasn\u2019t the revelation, reported by the Guardian, that the school [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4,57,28,11],"tags":[1137,213,970],"class_list":["post-29278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-britain","category-humour","category-media","category-religion","tag-harrypotter","tag-newspapers","tag-occult"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7Ce","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29279,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29278\/revisions\/29279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}