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J.K. Rowling slammed over latest pathetic dig at Harry Potter actors
Rupert Grint, JK Rowling, Emma Watson, and Daniel Radcliffe at the 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince' film premiere at the Odeon Leicester Square on July 7, 2009 in London, England.
Grow up, Joanne!
J.K. Rowling took a five second break from her crusade against trans rights to take aim at a different group — the stars of Harry Potter.
Earlier this week, the controversial author retweeted a post on X that asked a broad question of anyone wanting to interact with it: "What actor/actress instantly ruins a movie for you?"
"Three guesses," she wrote. "Sorry, but that was irresistible."
It doesn’t take magic to figure out this is a thinly veiled dig at Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint — and a predictably childish one, at that. Rowling has previously made it clear that she’s fallen out with the three actors due to her dangerous views on trans people. Of course, by her account, it’s because they’re the ones pushing dangerous views.
"Celebs who cosied up to a movement intent on eroding women’s hard-won rights and who used their platforms to cheer on the transitioning of minors can save their apologies for traumatised detransitioners and vulnerable women reliant on single sex spaces," she wrote on X last year after someone suggested she would "forgive" Radcliffe and Watson for supporting trans rights.
It’s important to note that, to date, none of the three actors have indicated an interest in "apologizing" for supporting a marginalized community. Additionally, the number of trans people who detransition is extremely small.
Rowling clearly thought she was being hilarious in taking another swing at the Harry Potter stars. And her anti-trans crowd who cheers on every bit of hatred she spews certainly agreed. But plenty of other people called her out for just how pathetic this continues to look.
"Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint are fathers, Emma Watson is doing a Masters at Oxford, Dan won a Tony last year, Rupert did a critically acclaimed Apple TV series, Emma started a business with her brother…meanwhile you’re a weird lady obsessed with people’s genitals, Joanne."
"It makes you laugh that anti-trans activists say we’re the ones forcing our will onto others when they can’t handle the fact that three kids who starred in an adaptation of a novel grew up, formed their own opinions and have the agency to not agree with their bigotry."
"there’s only one reason she wants a new harry potter series, and it’s because she hates the idea that she had a hand in starting the careers of three incredibly decent people with lives that aren’t plagued by hatred and have great success despite speaking out against her bigotry"
"the children who get cast in the new harry potter show will be forced to sign an ironclad contract promising they will never contradict jk rowling on anything for the rest of their lives"
"There’s something deeply weird and creepy at the pathological hatred she has for three adults that she world have met as children and feels betrayed that they don’t have the same opinions as her."
Rachel Kiley is presumably a writer and definitely not a terminator. She can usually be found crying over queerbaiting in the Pitch Perfect franchise or on Twitter, if not both.
Rachel Kiley is presumably a writer and definitely not a terminator. She can usually be found crying over queerbaiting in the Pitch Perfect franchise or on Twitter, if not both.
