Harry Potter fandom is in an interesting place now, with fansites trying to find a way forward while also shunning Rowling for her transphobic views. I was thinking about this sort of thing the other day after Ray Fisher’s charges of Joss Whedon’s abusiveness on the set of Justice League. Three years ago the fansite Whedonesque shut down as his ex-wife outed a decade and a half of issues; the site had been around since 2002. In the wake of the Fisher story, the most succinct reaction I saw was that “society has progressed beyond the need” for Whedon; I think that’s right, and Potter fandom I guess finds itself in somewhat similar a circumstance.