A new Harry Potter video game is ostensibly trying to distance itself from J.K. Rowling and her transphobic comments with the introduction of the series’ first trans character. Many fans are calling it a cynical way to make up for the creator’s rhetoric.
with the introduction of the series’ first trans character — and many fans are calling it a cynical way to make up for the creator’s rhetoric.— a new open-world game set in the 1890s, well before the events of the mainseries — began to pore in, and many noted the inclusion of a non-playable character named Sirona Ryan. Ryan is a witch that runs the Three Broomsticks, an inn and pub in Hogsmeade Village, that the player interacts with during a mission involving a goblin.
Though Sirona doesn’t say outright that she’s trans, the inference is pretty clear from her dialogue. When speaking about the aforementioned goblin, Lodgok, she says, “Hadn’t seen him in years when he came in a few months ago. But, he recognized me instantly. Which is more than I can say for some of my own classmates. Took them a second to realize I was actually a witch, not a wizard.”