Notice what Mrs. Rowling actually does.
She doesn't defend herself, she doesn't ask for understanding, and she doesn't present a long explanation for why she's right - she laughs, and in that laughter there is something the accusation cannot survive.
Because the accusation is that she is possessed. That something dark sits inside her, which must be driven out, because she will not bow her neck to the new doctrine that reality is negotiable.
That up is suddenly down.
That light is darkness.
And the remarkable thing is who reaches for that language.
So let me tell you who it is.
It's the same people who have spent years emptying words of meaning, who have taught us that a woman is not necessarily a woman, that men can be women, that biology is a feeling and not a fact, that what we see with our own eyes we owe someone or something to look away from, that we must enter into Unreality and Lie in order to show consideration - they suddenly reach for the heaviest word of all.
Possession. Demon. As if they themselves believed it.
But that's how the Lie works. It cannot bear being laughed at. It demands seriousness, it demands to be taken at its own word, it demands that you lay yourself flat and let yourself be run over with a polite nod - and the moment you laugh instead, it loses its grip on you.
So let me remind you of something that has slowly become dangerous to say aloud.
It is permitted to fight.
It is permitted to fight with everything you have, against bad ideas, against destructive ideas, against ideas that are evil to the very core - because Lies destroy the Human Being - and you owe no one an apology afterward.
And the weapon you have been handed here is the Word.
Not the shout, not the scorn for scorn's own sake, but the clear word that calls things by their proper name, that points toward the True, in the middle of a chorus that has made a virtue out of refraining. That is the strongest thing you have been given, and the only thing that can dissolve the seductive Lie that always tries to slip in - not with force, but with a friendly suggestion that perhaps we should stop saying what we know very well to be True.
A woman who laughs at her own exorcism is the Freest Human Being in the room.
It's not her who is possessed.
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