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I've counted myself lucky that most of the things that I like either haven't been dramatically revealed as created by monsters, or if there are monsters involved they weren't as charismatic and central to the creation of the work, or the monsters are long-dead and no longer capable of profiting from their work. When JKR revealed her true colors, it was easy for me to walk away from a fairly casual Harry Potter interest. I could easily pass on the new movies; they're mostly terrible. I could easily pass on Hogwarts Legacy, because I really only play about one game per year, so that one just never made the cut. The biggest pang I ever felt was that some of the Harry Potter Lego sets look rad as hell, but... whatever, they're expensive and I can cultivate other interests no problem.
I have real sympathy for people who got into HP early in life, who had their personalities shaped by it, who felt like they had derived real moral and ethical lessons (even if JKR herself rebuked those lessons later on), who felt like they had developed a personal bond with the material. The parts of those people that were shaped by HP are theirs, and they don't owe those parts of their identities to JKR, but I can easily imagine that it would hurt like hell to try to let go of those feelings.
I don't have a great solution. I think it's right to back away from HP, I think it's right to avoid ever giving JKR another dime. I don't pretend that I could easily give up everything Star Trek, for example, ever put into me, if I were ever put in the same position. I try to have patience and grace for people who do feel that tension, so long as they acknowledge the realities on the ground for what JKR is and what she is trying to do, right now, with the wealth that HP has generated for her.
It's really the people who come to you for assurances that they aren't doing a bad thing by supporting HP. Like they tell you about playing Hogwarts Legacy hoping that you'll ease their conscience. It's really awkward and they never feel good when you tell them that, yes, them buying into HP directly hurts us.
Yeah, that's a bit like asking someone who is vegan for ethical reasons to give you permission to sometimes eat hamburgers. Core concept. Wrong conversation to try to have.