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She isn't a bad author, just a bad person. The reason I regret reading her work isn't because of the work itself...
She can't keep consistent with her dates and how long ago things were
She had good ideas but is a bad author
Not wanting to defend Rowling, since she's an evil and hateful person, but there's many great authors who fall foul of basic arithmetic. I would argue that they are completely separate skills; TV Tropes has a good list. (Also, I'd argue that most of her good ideas were taken from someone else.)
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WritersCannotDoMath
She’s not a bad person, she has an opinion that’s different from yours
That opinion is "this group of people is worth less than another group," so yes she's a bad person
Having an opinion that people don't deserve to have rights for being who they are does in fact make you a bad person.
You're on the wrong site to have garbage viewpoints like this.
Perhaps, but I posit that her opinions run objectively bad.
Funnily I'm not very fond opinions that entail treating me and my loved ones like dangerous subhumans