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What if for some reason or some life experience, JK Rowling became an genuine leftist rather than a Blairite liberal centrist? Please note that genuine leftist does not have to necessary mean Trot tendencies or ML Tankie in this scenario. She could be a democratic socialist to the left of labour or even a sort of anarchist.

For one thing she would support Corbyn assuming labour still goes through what it did OTL but I'm wondering what is the impact on her work. Like I assume that Hermoine would be portrayed as having more of a legitimate point about House Elf emancipation and Rowling would make the Wizarding World even more screwed than OTL and Voldemort a natural outcome or the end result of that screw up. Maybe Dumbledore would be seen as effed up in his own right? Maybe Harry would need to create a genuinely new vision for the Wizarding world?

Would there even be HP movies and I presume they would be significantly toned down.

The intresting question here is.....how would she view the proliferation of progressive identity politics in the 2010s. Would she be as apprehensive to them as OTL, but this time utilizing Jacobin/Chapo/IMT/WSWS/CPGBML brosocialist esque rhetoric(meaning the idea they're detracting from anti capitalist ideas or somehow enabling of liberalism) OR would she actually be much more embracing of progressive idpol in a situation where she was a genuine leftist.
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