A great deal of her work is not in fact hate speech. It's normal speech with bigotry sprinkled in. Describing, for example, a store where magical letter-carrying owls are sold is not actually hate speech. Neither is a guy talking about the magical power of love. She's a terrible person, but her taking visible support of her work as support for her views doesn't actually mean that literally every single word she's ever written is in itself awful.
(Not least because she wasn't fully down the bigotry rabbit hole when she wrote a lot of her earlier books.)
Also, the purpose of an archive is not to go "hm, no, a bad person wrote this original work so you can't write fanfic of it", and even vaguely beginning to try to enforce that rule would be impossible due to requiring a unanimous decision about whether every single possible fandom springs from a work written by someone awful. Beyond the fact that not every author makes themself known for anyone to be able to tell if they're bigoted, there'd be a whole lot of cases of "well, this author's writing has some bits of bigotry in it, but they're not overly hateful, so does this count?" popping up.
If you really want to help defend people, you might want to find a better use of your time and effort. Maybe, IDK- try to get retailers to stop carrying Harry Potter merch, if you want something JK-Rowling focused? Something that actually gets her the money she's using to fund harmful initiatives, y'know.
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