Regarding allies who become masters, let us say that some white heavy-hitter -a billionaire or respected politician, decides to become a Black ally. All very nice at first, because they give the cause a massive boost in finance and-or a powerful platform. But they are used to being in charge, used to getting things done their way and they still have their own agenda. So that little by little, because they have such disproportionate power, your agenda becomes merged with theirs and suddenly you're working for them rather than them working with you.

It is worth differentiating between the message the auther gives in their work and the ones they put on their blogs or Twitter. True, all of JKRs' central characters where white and straight, but the people who moan loudest about this would be the same ones who would have kicked off if she had centre-staged BIPOC or LGBTQ+ characters on the grounds that as a straight white woman her representation of them would have been 'inauthentic', so that's a no-win job for her. But her central text about friendship, love and self-sacrifice was something an increasingly cynical generation needed.

And because that message is so badly needed, and because the films were inadequate, and because so many young people these days will not pick up a book, then yes, I feel a TV adaptation is important.

I also felt that in your article you were attempting to shame people into boycotting the books, films, games and the proposed TV series. That is, at any rate, how it came across. That strikes me as being more insidious than hectoring and threatening, but it is still a form of bullying, and bullies have no friends. But right now, every minority under threat needs friends - not allies, but friends.