Hearing the news about Nagini in Fantastic Beasts is just… I’m kinda speechless. But not in a shocked way. My jaded soul has already shrivelled and calcified to the point where JK could say that the Womping Willow was actually trans this whole time and I would just sigh.
I’ve said it before, and it becomes more and more relevant every time she opens her mouth, but JK Rowling is the George Lucas of literature. She had a good idea once, and now she’s gonna spend the next few decades ruining her own creation by adding things and tweaking it until it’s an unrecognisable cgi hodgepodge of its former self as she desperately claims that this was her true vision all along.
And Fantastic Beasts is her Star Wars Prequels, when everyone slowly starts to realise that she’s just a hack who’s been riding off that one good idea for years.