the situation with harry potter is kind of unprecedented in some ways imo because it is maybe the largest media franchise in history to be created & owned by a single person who still has direct creative control over it. who is also a billionaire with significant cultural/political influence. like the usual "no ethical consumption under capitalism" type excuses shatter on impact when the bigoted author in question is logging onto twitter every day saying explicitly that when you buy the tim hortons ravenclaw donut she is using your donut money to fund the genocide of trans people. like with big franchises usually there's at least a little more diffusion of responsibility than this
i'm sure that this has also been added somewhere else, but there is a toolkit over at affirming connections to send an email to the media relations for tim hortons and their parent company, RBI:
Tim Hortons launches a Harry Potter campaign on August 12, sending royalties to J.K. Rowling. Here's who to email at Restaurant Brands Inter
the promotion starts on august 12th, but that doesn't mean that there isn't time to send an email!
