Sure, if you read a book and never tell anyone you did it you aren’t participating in fandom. My point was more about people who continue to be “Harry Potter fans” and explicitly do participate in fandom (posting about it, writing fanfiction, whatever) despite not wanting to support Rowling.
I’m not participatiing in fandom by reading a book.
We are all participating in fandom right now.
Bad press is still press.
No, were participating in discussion around the books that even someone who hasn’t read them could easily participate in.
If bad press is still press then the OP shouldn’t have done so, huh?
Sure, if you read a book and never tell anyone you did it you aren’t participating in fandom. My point was more about people who continue to be “Harry Potter fans” and explicitly do participate in fandom (posting about it, writing fanfiction, whatever) despite not wanting to support Rowling.