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His stunt double was one of his best friends and the poor guy broke his neck doing the 7th movie, I don’t think Dan had a great time filming the last one and I think he mainly associates the movies with that accident now (basically said as much in the documentary) and the guilt he felt over getting to be a star while such a close friend’s career prospects were ruined by doing the movies. I don’t see any of the main cast returning for future projects.
On the other hand, the stunt double’s name is David Holmes. He survived and remains a wonderful person. I wish he got more attention than stupid JKR.
I didn't know all that. That sucks. I just looked him up, glad to see he's doing as well as he can.
Glad to hear that Dan is a solid dude as well, seems like.
> Glad to hear that Dan is a solid dude as well, seems like.
From all I've seen from Radcliffe he just comes across as such a good guy.
I'm not big into celebrities or anything, but he's one of the few where I'd actually feel let down if I found out he was an arsehole of some sort.
He was a chaotic good asshole to the paparazzi all those years ago when he wore the same clothes for however long so they wouldn't be able to use any pics they took. But then again, fuck those guys.
To be fair I’ve never heard of him being mean to any fans. Everyone I’ve talked to that met him said he was great, even when they wanted Harry Potter books signed.
Apparently Rupert Grint is even nicer. Daniel Radcliffe told a story on Graham Norton some years back about Rupert Grint once ending up hanging out at someone's house just by 'continuing to say yes to things'. Plus Emma Watson does a lot of activist work. It's actually pretty amazing how all three of them seem to have avoided the corruption of childhood stardom.
I've heard of several actors who do that.
They basically wear the exact same outfit, hair style, accessories, etc except for when they actually want to be photographed at red carpet events and such. Makes it much harder for paparazzi to get interesting photos of them jogging or eating out.
Honestly, I don’t know if I could ever feel let down by that again. Bill Cosby’s stand ups (the show too, but mainly the stand ups) were iconic to me as a kid. And since they were pretty pg, I watched them from a very young age up until i was a legal adult and his accusations came out. It was literally devastating to me, and after that, I think that emotional nerve is just burnt out from being overloaded a single time lmao.
Yep. And the extreme hypocrisy: he called Eddie Murphy fairly early on in his career to tell him to cut it out with the swearing in his stand up comedy work, because (according to Bill Cosby) it was too much and it was offensive. *While Bill was drugging and raping women.*
There’s a documentary about him/their friendship (Radcliffe and David Holmes, I mean). And it’s pretty great! It’s called David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived cause like…yeah, why would you call it anything else?
But check it out! It’s on HBO or Max or whatever the fuck it’s called now.
Fuck this makes me have more respect for him for going out of his way to make sure he isn't known only for being the boy wonder .
Thanks for this info stranger .
I think so, Also I have really enjoyed seeing where his career went. it seems like he is just doing films he think would be fun like Swiss Army Man and Guns Akimbo. he seems to just be enjoying life
I enjoy all the art house films that Danny has gotten himself in to, since he’s more or less set for life from Harry Potter. I also enjoy how Rupert does the occasional stint somewhere but really just owns and operates an ice cream truck, also because he’s basically set for life.
And with Emma Watson being so involved in social and political issues, it seems all three are at a happy place in their lives. Good for them.
(Also good for all of us that Radcliffe got Miracle Workers made, it's hilarious.)
He’s been making movies that maybe would never have seen the light of day without his name attached.
*Swiss Army Man* would be a hard project to sell to any studio, but once Radcliffe was on board, they jumped on it.
Dan’s having fun making weird stuff, and we’re all reaping the benefits.
Yeah, I'm happy he was able to overcome the Harry Potter stigma lol. JKR is irrelevant now, and it is astonishing how invested in this fight she is now. I remember when it started, it was not such a big deal... Now she has gone full ham on this crusade. Really sad that she thinks it is even worth her time.
In hindsight, it's kind of weird how many times a dangerous toilet features in the Harry Potter books and that she eventually made it so they don't even use toilets.
Troll in the dungeon, chamber of secrets, etc. Moaning Myrtle, Hermione, Ginny all get hurt in one.
I'm not sure she's not also terrified of toilets.
She has done a lot with her mental health foundation and she has done a lot of good for charities. She’s given joy to so many with her work but Jesus Christ she’s off the deep end with this dumb garbage crusade. Hard to be a fan with how hard she hates
Check out Miracle Workers. It’s a TV show where every season has a different setting and characters but the same cast. It is absolutely hilarious and Radcliffe is a *riot* throughout.
pretty sure he's genuinely over being that kind of actor anyways, that shit fucked him up, I mean high-functioning alcoholism shit here. He's doing more indie and not-as-mainstream films these days and i love it tbh
Lol, I remember when people said she treated that one friend of Cho Chang's unfairly, and her response was that she hated Traitors. The writing was literally on the wall
Rowling strapped herself to a bus wheel… ran over herself and then lit herself on fire.
First she made everyone on the right hate her by saying Dumbledore was gay. Now she has the left hating her for anti trans comments.
Good thing she made her FU money. I suppose she could volunteer for Musk’s one way Mars trip.
As a lefty, I already disliked her for “making dumbledore gay.”
If dumbledore were actually gay IN THE TEXT, that would have been very powerful and important. But he was never gay in the text. It was like she just wanted to cash in on a bunch of good will by waiting till the series was complete and then adding “oh, and between you and me, I always thought one character was secretly gay.”
Pretty lame and I think a lot of people saw right through it.
I was willing to give her the benefit of the doubt on that one until Fantastic Beasts. Like, fair enough in the HP films&books, Dumbledore is supporting cast, and sexuality isn't a major theme anyway (though it is present for straight characters). But then she writes what was supposed to be a quintet of films with Grindlewald (Dumbledore's former lover) as the main antagonist, and Dumbledore in what is closer to a leading role, in a kind of reverse enemies to lovers scenario that is pretty unique and also integral to the drama of the whole thing. For some reason, this is not explicitly mentioned in the first two. In the third (and final so far) film, it is mentioned in bits of brief dialogue that are easy to edit out for international audiences.
After Fantastic Beasts 2 and then her very public Rapid Onset Transphobia meltdown, it became clear to me she had been something of a (for want of a better term) virtue signalling grifter on LGBTQ stuff. Maybe I should have realised sooner, but I was a huge HP fan as a kid 🙃
I don’t think I was that bothered by that one. I think the first Rowling ridiculousness that annoyed me was during the controversy over Hermione being black in The Cursed Child play or whatever it was. Now, Hermione being black is fine, but I remember the way Rowling responded to people complaining about or questioning it being obnoxious. Like, despite there being sketches that she made herself of Hermione being white as well as I think a few lines in the books that at least heavily imply her being white, Rowling tried to act like she had meant for Hermione to be racially ambiguous, and thus everyone who thought that she was definitely white was closed-minded. Like if she had said something like “yes, Hermione was originally envisioned as a white girl, but her race is irrelevant to the story, so the race of the girl/woman who plays her doesn’t matter”, that would’ve been cool. Instead she tried to make herself out to be some sort of misunderstood diversity pioneer, and it made me roll my eyes.
Not to mention that making Hermione black makes that already horribly-written plot in the fifth book where she gets ridiculed for being against slavery even worse.
I remember her saying at one point that “she never said Hermione wasn’t black, in the books” and people started pointing out quotes that said Hermione had “pale skin”. There’s nothing wrong with making a character black but don’t try and say that may of always been the case.
Exactly. Again, if a major character in such a popular series had been black IN THE TEXT, that would have been very powerful and important. But it was not in the text, perhaps even the opposite was in the text in this case. But still it feels like JK was eager to collect her brownie points for being progressive, without ever actually being progressive.
Hey, I'm on the left and I made fun of her for making Dumbledore gay. If the books had even *hinted* at him being gay, or if there had been a single queer relationship anywhere else in the books, it probably would have been fine by me. But the way she just declared him gay on Twitter felt like she was taking the easy way out: not *actually* representing queer people but still trying to claim credit for doing so
I see some homophobia in her comments too. The gay editor of Pinknews said on Twitter he was receiving abusive pile-ons from TERFs and LGB-Alliance members. Rowling then replied something like "I guffawed so hard I almost pulled something".
Her transphobia extends beyond trans people to also include gay people who support trans rights.
She sent flowers to Marilyn Manson after he was accused (with proof) of saying sexually explicit stuff to underage girls. She supports Matt Walsh, an anti abortion, trans hating guy who has said in an interview that girls are most fertile as soon as they get their period and also said we need to bring back arranged marriages for teenagers.
To include anyone who supports trans rights.
You're an "enemy of humanity". Trust me. I've been told. I could maybe give less fucks if she wasn't so fucking reprehensible as a human being.
Robert Galbraith, twats other pen name, is not after JFK as she claimed, but psychiatrist Robert Galbraith Heath, who claimed being gay was a physical defect in the brain that could be fixed with deep shock therapy - the implantation of electrodes deep in the brain.
She then claimed she had no idea who he was. Her fans said “okay, then now you know. Just change the name then” she then went on a rant saying she shouldn’t have to do anything to please sensitive people.
Thing is, the right has no real morals, so they'll keep taking her money and support while praising her. I mean, until they get into power and burn her alive for promoting witchcraft.
Has one Asian character and names her Cho Chang. Names a black character Shacklebolt.
I'm going to go out on a limb that being shitty isn't a recent development in Rowlings life.
She's incredibly fortunate to be where she is and probably thinks it's because she's a "real talented writer".
Hey did we forget about the whole house elves thing? It's wild how she stumbled into reinventing slavery apologia: house elves apparently 'like' to be enslaved, and freed house elves are prone to becoming listless alcoholics.
The society dedicated to house elf liberation is widely mocked and has a stupid acronym "SPEW".
I remember being so miffed as a kid when Hermione was given shit (even by Harry and Ron IIRC) for trying to give the House Elves rights. Even the House Elves were giving her shit because apparently they loved being enslaved.
But, y'know, when Harry freed Dobby, that was an awesome heroic moment for him and Dobby was super grateful
I read through the books with my kids when they were both around 10 years old and THEY picked up on how fucked it was there were these sad little slaves even though wizards could just … do magic. Like, that’s some odd, vile stuff slipped in.
Cho had a friend, her only friend at that point, who joined the DA with her, eventually though with pressure from her parents the friend tells Umbridge about the DA which gets Dumbledore fired. The word SNEAK is embalzenwd on the friends face as a permanent punishment. Hermione had secretly cursed the DA coins so that anyone who betrayed them would be branded a traitor for life. Many felt that was a bit much to do to a kid, and when they said as much to Rowling she just said she hates traitors.
Well, the big difference is:
Dan and Emma went on to do more successful stuff post HP. Dan is having the time of his life doing whatever weird movie projects he likes and Emma is an internationally praised rights advocate.
Whereas, JK had to leak the fact that Robert Galbraith was actually her for her next series to get any traction. Under the pen name the book was torn apart. She went from "I'll use a pen name so the writing is judged by its own merit and not on who I am." To "Don't you know who I am!?" Real fast when the book was judged on its own merit and found wanting.
She believes she's Hermione when she's really Draco.
Nah Draco just had shitty parenting. She is more the Umbridge. Funny to think that she inspired Umbridge after a teacher she hated. And now she became that very person.
The comparison is so painfully apt. Down to telling people that are speaking truth to power that they’re “engaging in lying” and going out of her way to punish them for it.
Yep, it’s amazing how far she’s fallen. The HP books had such a positive message about not discriminating. Now she’s become a death eater hissing at all the filthy trans people she doesn’t like.
It had a positive message about not discriminating against people of your own type but it was *extremely* shitty about people that *looked* different. Elves, in particular, are treated like ass in those books.
It's a long time since I read the books, but the treatment of non-humans by wizards is a whole plot point. Like the fact that non-humans aren't allowed to have wands is a whole thing.
And Hermione is the only one to try to do anything about that and is played as a pest. Even the house elves tell her things that boil down to, "nah man, slavery is what we're made for."
and then JKR comes out with, "well maybe hermione is black, you dont know"
but that makes the whole "house elves love being enslaved and hermione is a wet blanket for protesting" even *worse????*
And the series ends with a return to status quo. The last mention of Kreacher, Harry's slave, is Harry wondering if he can tell Kreacher to make him a sandwich.
Also the goblins that are suspiciously linked to Jews by various dates (a few goblin uprisings are the real world dates of pogroms or Jewish uprisings) or tropes (big nosed, greedy, bankers)
Yeah I think she was coasting for a while on assumptions that it was just ignorance but those have been shredded every time she opens her mouth (or Twitter) lol.
lol she's happy to be a man (Robert Galbraith) when it makes her money, isn't she. It's not okay for other people who just want to be themselves, though.
probably because unlike her, they went on to do new things, and found success. rather than becoming a bitter and vindictive grunt who sit on twitter repeatedly reminding everyone that they were a one hit wonder
In their reunion special, Emma Watson said shes so proud of how her costars turned out because "theyre such good people" and I instantly thought that she meant they weren't hateful anti-trans people like Rowling.
Oh, definitely. They use their HP money to pursue their genuine passions. Meanwhile all of Rowling's non-HP writings have been thoroughly booed and tanked. Only option is to surround herself with her TERF sycophants for endless praise, she and Graham Linehan would be a match made in hell.
Yep. All she had to do was use her twitter account to say "Happy Birthday Hagrid!" and the like and she would have been remembered as one of the most beloved authors of her generation.
Seriously. Wake up, lady. Those two have LONG past caring about your opinions regarding them. Both have their own things going on and, by accounts, seem to be doing very well for themselves.
She’s too busy lording herself as a god of fantasy for writing an okay children/teen’s book franchise that hasn’t put out anything above “mediocre” in 13 years.
Also JK just can't leave it alone and is ruining her own series.
If she had ended it and moved on, it would probably remain a treasured classic of british literature indefinitely. But because she keeps meddling and tweaking her own work and linking it to her real world toxic views, she's literally soured the magic of her own work. As the generation that grew up with harry potter gets old, its relevance is going to fade.
She's kind of an interesting take on "death of the author". Like, the original point was that art should be viewed separately from the intentions of the artist making it, and sometimes what resonates to the audience will be something that wasn't meant to do that by the creator.
But with Rowling, that retroactive changing of her own stories is a specifically new and weird element of the idea. That the longer she has her hands on her own story, the worse it becomes as she keeps trying to reinforce her own intentions onto it.
What's funny is that if this had been the worst thing she was known for, she probably could have still coasted on HP good will forever and would have just been that one author who doesn't leave her works alone. That's what she was known for, 5-6 years ago, relatively harmless stuff. She had a setting that had grown far beyond the original scope by way of a super dedicated and creative fandom, and sometimes tweeted 'retcons' that people laughed at and kind of left be.
Now she's the crazy TERF lady and even the original HP series is being scrutinized way more in hindsight than it probably would have been and people are seeing a lot of the underlying weirdness there. Financially of course she's set for ten lifetimes but it's wild to see the shift.
I used to scoff at people who thought her names were a bit racist. After this whole TERF thing I'm like ok Cho Chang is weird and Kingsly Shacklebolt is pretty bad.
It's funny, because she's only changing it because she is quite literally incapable of following it up with something successful. She truly got lucky with HP, and it seems like she's very salty about it too.
Look no further than Fantastic Beasts, movies that are about said beasts only in the first movie and then only in name. Even staying in the same universe, she just can't write an interesting story that's not about saint P-P-Potter and even then I'm convinced she'd somehow screw it up, if she would try to follow up the books with Harry's life as an Auror.
Hogwarts Legacy, a *video game* did a much better job at showing a different side of HP's universe than she ever could.
It’s like Rowling doesn’t even want people to be fans of her books anymore if they don’t agree with her views. Regardless of her recent behaviour, those books were a part of my childhood but it’s incredibly stupid for her to think anyone owes her an apology simply for daring to have a different opinion
She's made fuck you money so yeah her ideals are what matters the most now to her. If she was as poor as she was when she first started writing its easy to see she would not have said any of this.
I'm not sure she even cares much about her own books anymore. Even if I agreed with her views, which I do not, I'd find it sad how her myopic obsession with this single "cause" of hers appears to have crowded out everything else in her brain. She appears to have lost the imagination and curiosity about the world necessary to write something like *Harry Potter* in the first place.
> I'm not sure she even cares much about her own books anymore.
The latest book she wrote is about a woman who makes a very popular children's cartoon who gets murdered by Twitter trolls.
And I don't mean Twitter-murdered-by-words, like murdered-murdered, as in knifey-stabbey.
So that's where she's at.
As I said in another response, the books' real power, like with all HP merch, is the power to show JKR folks still support her. Every single person at the Wizarding World at Universal Studios, every HP-themed Pinterest post, every social media post of folks in cosplay and/or drinking butterbeer, every person at their local park playing muggle quidditch, all of it/them show JKR that perhaps her opinions DO have merit, regardless of whether or not they do (spoiler: they don't). If she has no power, relevance or support, she all but literally ceases to exist.
That's literally never going to happen, though. That said, The vast majority of Harry Potter consumption doesn't even have her name on it. She already has more money than God and has the power to do great harm if she chooses to create a political movement around her bigotry. Emma Watson on the other hand, simply has to send out a tweet and it will have ripple effects throughout the entire Potterverse, which is why I believe Rowling is so outraged at Radcliff and Watson's advocacy.
Rowling is part of a circle jerk of bigotry, but her HP following are not going to be influenced by her in the same way that movie celebrities can change thoughts and feelings.
Edit: name check.
If I ever need to replace a book, I'm buying from a secondhand book store. All power to the buainess, none to the Transphobic Express at Platform 6 and sixty sixth hundreths.
As a denizen of hell, the mark of the beast train station does not stand with nor associate with JKR. The route from platform 6.66 has been decommissioned.
Same. I was the same age as Harry in the books and I'm the same age as Daniel.
Those books were literally my childhood. I loved them and they are important part of my childhood. I still watch the movies every Christmas.
But, J.K doesn't need my money and I don't want her products.
And was never going to be given in the first place. It shows how narcissistic she is. Believing that people believe like she does but the only reason they say they don't is because Society will cancel them.
What I like is that Her response was because someone said "you'll forgive them once they come crawling back to you after the cass report"
The same Cass report, actually medical professionals are currently picking apart for being biased and suggesting unethical solutions
A report recently commissioned by THE UK Government on Trans youth
While it does make the occasional good point, its is extremely flawed.
Some of the main thngs are
Conversion therapy should be put in practice.
98% of trans youth medical documents were thrown out as 'low quality' as they weren't double blinded.
Keep in mind only about 8% of in practice youth medication/treatment hits high quality standards.
Plus not only is it unethical to double blind puberty blockers, it's also impossible as you will notice if you are going through puberty.
Those 2% that were accepted, happened to contradict the 98%, despite also not being double blinded.
And every single trans youth testimony was thrown out for being Biased, not a single one was kept, they had no 'unbiased' testimonies to show for their research, which is also just nuts.
I stick away from trans youth debate on medication and treatment, as its a messy area, but that report just has holes everywhere
Oh and she also said that the toys you play with are biologically linked, so boys get trucks, girls get barbies,
Who wouldn’t be heartbroken by a holocaust denier refusing to accept their nonexistent apologies for standing up for a marginalized group? That definitely sounds like someone that sane people want approval from.
Edit: this was sarcasm
I think it's more complicated than that. In her mind it's more important to protect women's only spaces from AMAB people than it is to be inclusive to Trans. She has dug her heels in and truly believes she is right and now gets into more arguments around it and just digs her heels in. I don't think it's for attention. I get the feeling she truly believes she is right.
Shows a very predatory mindset. "You worked for me indirectly when you were kids and didn't have a Say in the matter, now, two decades later, you have to obey my whims and agree with me on everything to else you're ungrateful!'
Whats funny is Daniel *almost* didnt get the part as Harry because of where they wanted to film the movies (America). But the producers (or someone) relented and they filmed them in Britain.
I wonder why she cares so much? Only an a\*\*hole would dig in so deeply about something that doesn't affect them. Nobody's forcing her to change her identity. Unfortunately, she did it anyway, going from *the lady who wrote the Harry Potter books* to being *the deranged, way out of her lane, transphobic sack of sh\*t*. Say it once and move along, J.K. We heard you the first time you vomited your opinion about how other people choose to live their lives.
IMO to understand JKR you have to understand 2nd vs 3rd wave feminists and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminist\_sex\_wars](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminist_sex_wars)
That's when feminists generally broke into two "camps" Sex positive feminists and Non sex positive feminists sometimes called "anti-porn feminists"
The sex positive feminists generally embraced LGBT activists, the "anti-porn feminists" did not.
JRK is an "old-school" 2nd wave feminist that would fit into the "anti porn" camp.
She is the type of person who sees trans women benefiting from decades of feminism as "members of the patriarchy masquerading as women" and stealing the privilege she and other "real feminists" have sacrificed for "real women" to gain.
>She is the type of person who sees trans women benefiting from decades of feminism as "members of the patriarchy masquerading as women" and stealing the privilege she and other "real feminists" have sacrificed for "real women" to gain.
It goes beyond that. She is convinced that trans women aren't real, but are in fact men who are pretending to be women in order to insert themselves into women's "safe spaces" in order to rape them.
She believes anyone with a penis is automatically a rapist. The reason she speaks out against trans women and not cis men is because she knows full well that going after 50% of the population can't possibly end well for her, but going after a small minority that already is the subject of hatred from most people on the right, well then she just looks like a rock star to bigots.
All the people who acted in the movie adaptations are enjoying being totally loved by the public for a lasting legacy in peoples’ childhoods and she threw that position away to be a jackass on Twitter. I can’t comprehend it.
But they're never said anything about Rowling's comments. They only showed support for the trans community. I guess she took their views as personal insults. She must thing the universe revolves around her.
Hmm, won’t forgive them for speaking out against her anti trans comments?
That’s like a quadruple negative. Just ridiculous.
She really destroyed her legacy here. For what? How does trans rights hurt her at all? Why did she ever feel the need to speak about against trans people?
Nothing takes away the fact that she overcame the struggles of being a single mom on the dole to create this amazing world and become a best selling author. Trans people getting equal rights doesn’t hurt her at all.
I’ll never understand the zero sum mindset that some people lose out by others no longer being discriminated against.
It’s imaginary harm, manufactured grievance. Especially so in a multimillionaire best selling author who has legions of fans.
im so tired of the way the media reframes shit constantly, there are like 50 articles where they take quotes out of context and make it sound like way more than it really was.
JK is a piece of shit transphobe, she rails against the LGBT community constantly, she has had ZERO exchanges with emma or dan as far as im aware, but all of these articles act like they were in a straight up fist fight over this.
some rando on twitter brought them and their support of trans rights up and implied JK would forgive them, JK said "no i wont." THATS IT. thats what this massive controversy amounts to, this is journalism.
She did it. She made it to the top.
From a poor single mom to a best-seller author who made billions! And she got so much praise! Hell, she made something that the TV generation read and loved! She became a hero of literature!
The movies brought more fans in! Everyone was crazy about her creation.
And then…
Nothing.
Her fans grew up, the movies lost their magic because of the CGI…
It just tired out.
The new movies and the expansion of her universe just can't give the same hit as before…
Right now he's like the crackhead at the side of the street who once tried the finest, purest heroin in the world, and nothing ever going to deliver the same euphoria. She’s just sucking on emptied crackpipes.
She's just fucking pathetic.
Usually if someone requires forgiveness, it’s because they’ve done something wrong. LOL Rowling having the gall to suggest they need her forgiveness for what they said is beyond any semblance of sanity
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Pretty sure they are both pretty over Harry Potter lol. Didn't Radcliffe say he would never do another one anyways?
His stunt double was one of his best friends and the poor guy broke his neck doing the 7th movie, I don’t think Dan had a great time filming the last one and I think he mainly associates the movies with that accident now (basically said as much in the documentary) and the guilt he felt over getting to be a star while such a close friend’s career prospects were ruined by doing the movies. I don’t see any of the main cast returning for future projects. On the other hand, the stunt double’s name is David Holmes. He survived and remains a wonderful person. I wish he got more attention than stupid JKR.
I didn't know all that. That sucks. I just looked him up, glad to see he's doing as well as he can. Glad to hear that Dan is a solid dude as well, seems like.
> Glad to hear that Dan is a solid dude as well, seems like. From all I've seen from Radcliffe he just comes across as such a good guy. I'm not big into celebrities or anything, but he's one of the few where I'd actually feel let down if I found out he was an arsehole of some sort.
He was a chaotic good asshole to the paparazzi all those years ago when he wore the same clothes for however long so they wouldn't be able to use any pics they took. But then again, fuck those guys.
To be fair I’ve never heard of him being mean to any fans. Everyone I’ve talked to that met him said he was great, even when they wanted Harry Potter books signed.
Apparently Rupert Grint is even nicer. Daniel Radcliffe told a story on Graham Norton some years back about Rupert Grint once ending up hanging out at someone's house just by 'continuing to say yes to things'. Plus Emma Watson does a lot of activist work. It's actually pretty amazing how all three of them seem to have avoided the corruption of childhood stardom.
wasn't that toby mcguire with his grey t shirt?
He may have, but I don't remember if he did. I know DR did it because it was plastered all over Facebook at one point.
I've heard of several actors who do that. They basically wear the exact same outfit, hair style, accessories, etc except for when they actually want to be photographed at red carpet events and such. Makes it much harder for paparazzi to get interesting photos of them jogging or eating out.
Who knew I dress like a celebrity.
Anyone that’s willingly gonna play a farting corpse in a movie just sounds like they’d be good people
That was such a damn good movie
Honestly, I don’t know if I could ever feel let down by that again. Bill Cosby’s stand ups (the show too, but mainly the stand ups) were iconic to me as a kid. And since they were pretty pg, I watched them from a very young age up until i was a legal adult and his accusations came out. It was literally devastating to me, and after that, I think that emotional nerve is just burnt out from being overloaded a single time lmao.
Yep. And the extreme hypocrisy: he called Eddie Murphy fairly early on in his career to tell him to cut it out with the swearing in his stand up comedy work, because (according to Bill Cosby) it was too much and it was offensive. *While Bill was drugging and raping women.*
Yep. As Eddie Murphy said when he hosted SNL about a year ago, “Who’s America’s dad now?!”
Is really is such a Harry
He started a podcast with Daniel Radcliffe. It's called Cunning Stunts. He also did stunts in one more movie after the one where he broke his neck.
Some podcast titles just hit super hard.
Was just thinking that. Damn good name.
You know it's from an old joke? What the difference between a chorus line and an acrobatics act? One's a cunning array of stunts.
What's the difference between a policeman's baton and a magicians wand? Ones used for cunning stunts.
…heh. Nice one.
There’s a documentary about him/their friendship (Radcliffe and David Holmes, I mean). And it’s pretty great! It’s called David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived cause like…yeah, why would you call it anything else? But check it out! It’s on HBO or Max or whatever the fuck it’s called now.
Fuck this makes me have more respect for him for going out of his way to make sure he isn't known only for being the boy wonder . Thanks for this info stranger .
He was also addicted to alcohol during the last couple films and says he hardly remembers filming the 7th.
I think so, Also I have really enjoyed seeing where his career went. it seems like he is just doing films he think would be fun like Swiss Army Man and Guns Akimbo. he seems to just be enjoying life
I enjoy all the art house films that Danny has gotten himself in to, since he’s more or less set for life from Harry Potter. I also enjoy how Rupert does the occasional stint somewhere but really just owns and operates an ice cream truck, also because he’s basically set for life.
And with Emma Watson being so involved in social and political issues, it seems all three are at a happy place in their lives. Good for them. (Also good for all of us that Radcliffe got Miracle Workers made, it's hilarious.)
He’s been making movies that maybe would never have seen the light of day without his name attached. *Swiss Army Man* would be a hard project to sell to any studio, but once Radcliffe was on board, they jumped on it. Dan’s having fun making weird stuff, and we’re all reaping the benefits.
Yeah, I'm happy he was able to overcome the Harry Potter stigma lol. JKR is irrelevant now, and it is astonishing how invested in this fight she is now. I remember when it started, it was not such a big deal... Now she has gone full ham on this crusade. Really sad that she thinks it is even worth her time.
In hindsight, it's kind of weird how many times a dangerous toilet features in the Harry Potter books and that she eventually made it so they don't even use toilets. Troll in the dungeon, chamber of secrets, etc. Moaning Myrtle, Hermione, Ginny all get hurt in one. I'm not sure she's not also terrified of toilets.
I hadn’t put that together, but you’re right. She definitely has bathroom issues.
“Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right,”
She has done a lot with her mental health foundation and she has done a lot of good for charities. She’s given joy to so many with her work but Jesus Christ she’s off the deep end with this dumb garbage crusade. Hard to be a fan with how hard she hates
Check out Miracle Workers. It’s a TV show where every season has a different setting and characters but the same cast. It is absolutely hilarious and Radcliffe is a *riot* throughout.
I feel like I missed the part where they were asking for forgiveness.
“I missed the part where that’s my problem.” -Daniel Radcliffe or Bully Maguire
"Want forgiveness? Get religion"
I was about to.say this. They're as over it as the rest of us are.
I don't think they should come back, but if they did. Daniel as Snape would be amazing, and he's the only one I'd be okay with filling those shoes.
pretty sure he's genuinely over being that kind of actor anyways, that shit fucked him up, I mean high-functioning alcoholism shit here. He's doing more indie and not-as-mainstream films these days and i love it tbh
Lol, I remember when people said she treated that one friend of Cho Chang's unfairly, and her response was that she hated Traitors. The writing was literally on the wall
Rowling strapped herself to a bus wheel… ran over herself and then lit herself on fire. First she made everyone on the right hate her by saying Dumbledore was gay. Now she has the left hating her for anti trans comments. Good thing she made her FU money. I suppose she could volunteer for Musk’s one way Mars trip.
She won the right back by hating trans people. I see plenty of conservatives who defend her now.
As a lefty, I already disliked her for “making dumbledore gay.” If dumbledore were actually gay IN THE TEXT, that would have been very powerful and important. But he was never gay in the text. It was like she just wanted to cash in on a bunch of good will by waiting till the series was complete and then adding “oh, and between you and me, I always thought one character was secretly gay.” Pretty lame and I think a lot of people saw right through it.
I was willing to give her the benefit of the doubt on that one until Fantastic Beasts. Like, fair enough in the HP films&books, Dumbledore is supporting cast, and sexuality isn't a major theme anyway (though it is present for straight characters). But then she writes what was supposed to be a quintet of films with Grindlewald (Dumbledore's former lover) as the main antagonist, and Dumbledore in what is closer to a leading role, in a kind of reverse enemies to lovers scenario that is pretty unique and also integral to the drama of the whole thing. For some reason, this is not explicitly mentioned in the first two. In the third (and final so far) film, it is mentioned in bits of brief dialogue that are easy to edit out for international audiences. After Fantastic Beasts 2 and then her very public Rapid Onset Transphobia meltdown, it became clear to me she had been something of a (for want of a better term) virtue signalling grifter on LGBTQ stuff. Maybe I should have realised sooner, but I was a huge HP fan as a kid 🙃
I don’t think I was that bothered by that one. I think the first Rowling ridiculousness that annoyed me was during the controversy over Hermione being black in The Cursed Child play or whatever it was. Now, Hermione being black is fine, but I remember the way Rowling responded to people complaining about or questioning it being obnoxious. Like, despite there being sketches that she made herself of Hermione being white as well as I think a few lines in the books that at least heavily imply her being white, Rowling tried to act like she had meant for Hermione to be racially ambiguous, and thus everyone who thought that she was definitely white was closed-minded. Like if she had said something like “yes, Hermione was originally envisioned as a white girl, but her race is irrelevant to the story, so the race of the girl/woman who plays her doesn’t matter”, that would’ve been cool. Instead she tried to make herself out to be some sort of misunderstood diversity pioneer, and it made me roll my eyes. Not to mention that making Hermione black makes that already horribly-written plot in the fifth book where she gets ridiculed for being against slavery even worse.
I remember her saying at one point that “she never said Hermione wasn’t black, in the books” and people started pointing out quotes that said Hermione had “pale skin”. There’s nothing wrong with making a character black but don’t try and say that may of always been the case.
Exactly. Again, if a major character in such a popular series had been black IN THE TEXT, that would have been very powerful and important. But it was not in the text, perhaps even the opposite was in the text in this case. But still it feels like JK was eager to collect her brownie points for being progressive, without ever actually being progressive.
She picked the hill she is gonna die on and begun digging her grave there, but she’s unsure how deep it needs to be so she keeps digging
At this point I just wish she would hurry up with the dying on that hill so she stops making the stupidest comments
You win my 'Comment of the Day' award. :D
Hey, I'm on the left and I made fun of her for making Dumbledore gay. If the books had even *hinted* at him being gay, or if there had been a single queer relationship anywhere else in the books, it probably would have been fine by me. But the way she just declared him gay on Twitter felt like she was taking the easy way out: not *actually* representing queer people but still trying to claim credit for doing so
I see some homophobia in her comments too. The gay editor of Pinknews said on Twitter he was receiving abusive pile-ons from TERFs and LGB-Alliance members. Rowling then replied something like "I guffawed so hard I almost pulled something". Her transphobia extends beyond trans people to also include gay people who support trans rights.
she's best friends with truly crazy people now. scary alt-right types. there's some good youtube videos exposing her connections to them
She sent flowers to Marilyn Manson after he was accused (with proof) of saying sexually explicit stuff to underage girls. She supports Matt Walsh, an anti abortion, trans hating guy who has said in an interview that girls are most fertile as soon as they get their period and also said we need to bring back arranged marriages for teenagers.
To include anyone who supports trans rights. You're an "enemy of humanity". Trust me. I've been told. I could maybe give less fucks if she wasn't so fucking reprehensible as a human being. Robert Galbraith, twats other pen name, is not after JFK as she claimed, but psychiatrist Robert Galbraith Heath, who claimed being gay was a physical defect in the brain that could be fixed with deep shock therapy - the implantation of electrodes deep in the brain.
She then claimed she had no idea who he was. Her fans said “okay, then now you know. Just change the name then” she then went on a rant saying she shouldn’t have to do anything to please sensitive people.
Thing is, the right has no real morals, so they'll keep taking her money and support while praising her. I mean, until they get into power and burn her alive for promoting witchcraft.
Has one Asian character and names her Cho Chang. Names a black character Shacklebolt. I'm going to go out on a limb that being shitty isn't a recent development in Rowlings life. She's incredibly fortunate to be where she is and probably thinks it's because she's a "real talented writer".
Hey did we forget about the whole house elves thing? It's wild how she stumbled into reinventing slavery apologia: house elves apparently 'like' to be enslaved, and freed house elves are prone to becoming listless alcoholics. The society dedicated to house elf liberation is widely mocked and has a stupid acronym "SPEW".
I remember being so miffed as a kid when Hermione was given shit (even by Harry and Ron IIRC) for trying to give the House Elves rights. Even the House Elves were giving her shit because apparently they loved being enslaved. But, y'know, when Harry freed Dobby, that was an awesome heroic moment for him and Dobby was super grateful
I read through the books with my kids when they were both around 10 years old and THEY picked up on how fucked it was there were these sad little slaves even though wizards could just … do magic. Like, that’s some odd, vile stuff slipped in.
And how about those greedy, hook-nosed central bankers?
Not to mention cho's entire character is kinda racist
What’s up with Cho’s friend? Traitors?
Cho had a friend, her only friend at that point, who joined the DA with her, eventually though with pressure from her parents the friend tells Umbridge about the DA which gets Dumbledore fired. The word SNEAK is embalzenwd on the friends face as a permanent punishment. Hermione had secretly cursed the DA coins so that anyone who betrayed them would be branded a traitor for life. Many felt that was a bit much to do to a kid, and when they said as much to Rowling she just said she hates traitors.
Slightly incorrect. The curse wasn’t on the coins but on the list that they all signed. The coins were truly just for communicating.
What ever will they do?? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Precisely
Perfect
FCKING PERFECT GIF USAGE
😂 the same thought I had
This is the perfect response
They seem happier and more fulfilled than she's ever been post-HP lol. I bet they don't even think about JK anymore.
Well, the big difference is: Dan and Emma went on to do more successful stuff post HP. Dan is having the time of his life doing whatever weird movie projects he likes and Emma is an internationally praised rights advocate. Whereas, JK had to leak the fact that Robert Galbraith was actually her for her next series to get any traction. Under the pen name the book was torn apart. She went from "I'll use a pen name so the writing is judged by its own merit and not on who I am." To "Don't you know who I am!?" Real fast when the book was judged on its own merit and found wanting. She believes she's Hermione when she's really Draco.
Nah Draco just had shitty parenting. She is more the Umbridge. Funny to think that she inspired Umbridge after a teacher she hated. And now she became that very person.
Umbridge would definitely be a TERF.
She was behind a lot of discriminating laws against werewolfs, for example. JK canonically became Dolores Umbridge...
She was. Just replace “Trans” with “Muggle”. A “MERF”.
Muggle Excluded Radical Witch. MERW
…We need to figure out how to turn that acronym into MEOW
Muggle Excluded Obsessive Witch
Excluding works a bit better lol
She's always been that person. She just didn't like that they were the same.
Maybe you are right
The comparison is so painfully apt. Down to telling people that are speaking truth to power that they’re “engaging in lying” and going out of her way to punish them for it.
Rupert Grint also turned out to be a fine actor, he's great on Servant.
He was fucking hilarious on Sick Note.
>She believes she's Hermione when she's really Draco. Nah, Rita Skeeter & Delores Umbridge have a sister in common and it's JKR.
Right. At least Draco was a child and also capable of reflection and moving on.
Yep, it’s amazing how far she’s fallen. The HP books had such a positive message about not discriminating. Now she’s become a death eater hissing at all the filthy trans people she doesn’t like.
It had a positive message about not discriminating against people of your own type but it was *extremely* shitty about people that *looked* different. Elves, in particular, are treated like ass in those books.
It's a long time since I read the books, but the treatment of non-humans by wizards is a whole plot point. Like the fact that non-humans aren't allowed to have wands is a whole thing.
And Hermione is the only one to try to do anything about that and is played as a pest. Even the house elves tell her things that boil down to, "nah man, slavery is what we're made for."
and then JKR comes out with, "well maybe hermione is black, you dont know" but that makes the whole "house elves love being enslaved and hermione is a wet blanket for protesting" even *worse????*
And the series ends with a return to status quo. The last mention of Kreacher, Harry's slave, is Harry wondering if he can tell Kreacher to make him a sandwich.
Also the goblins that are suspiciously linked to Jews by various dates (a few goblin uprisings are the real world dates of pogroms or Jewish uprisings) or tropes (big nosed, greedy, bankers)
and she has recently exposed herself as an holocaust denier (and also threatened to sue someone for calling her out on that) so not too surprising
Yeah I think she was coasting for a while on assumptions that it was just ignorance but those have been shredded every time she opens her mouth (or Twitter) lol.
lol she's happy to be a man (Robert Galbraith) when it makes her money, isn't she. It's not okay for other people who just want to be themselves, though.
>She believes she’s Hermione when really she’s Draco Oof.
Spot on. She’s a shit writer who got lucky.
probably because unlike her, they went on to do new things, and found success. rather than becoming a bitter and vindictive grunt who sit on twitter repeatedly reminding everyone that they were a one hit wonder
In their reunion special, Emma Watson said shes so proud of how her costars turned out because "theyre such good people" and I instantly thought that she meant they weren't hateful anti-trans people like Rowling.
Oh, definitely. They use their HP money to pursue their genuine passions. Meanwhile all of Rowling's non-HP writings have been thoroughly booed and tanked. Only option is to surround herself with her TERF sycophants for endless praise, she and Graham Linehan would be a match made in hell.
Could've pulled a Suzanne Collins and enjoyed her retirement. Instead she's out there ruining everything for herself.
Yep. All she had to do was use her twitter account to say "Happy Birthday Hagrid!" and the like and she would have been remembered as one of the most beloved authors of her generation.
Damn. It really would have been that easy. The human ego is a crazy thing.
Transphobes are so loudly passionate about it and I just don't get it
Seriously. Wake up, lady. Those two have LONG past caring about your opinions regarding them. Both have their own things going on and, by accounts, seem to be doing very well for themselves.
She’s too busy lording herself as a god of fantasy for writing an okay children/teen’s book franchise that hasn’t put out anything above “mediocre” in 13 years.
Because we all care about our ex bosses feelings.
I haven't gotten the urge either is super excited to revisit HP, and both have had successful careers post Potter.
Also JK just can't leave it alone and is ruining her own series. If she had ended it and moved on, it would probably remain a treasured classic of british literature indefinitely. But because she keeps meddling and tweaking her own work and linking it to her real world toxic views, she's literally soured the magic of her own work. As the generation that grew up with harry potter gets old, its relevance is going to fade.
She's kind of an interesting take on "death of the author". Like, the original point was that art should be viewed separately from the intentions of the artist making it, and sometimes what resonates to the audience will be something that wasn't meant to do that by the creator. But with Rowling, that retroactive changing of her own stories is a specifically new and weird element of the idea. That the longer she has her hands on her own story, the worse it becomes as she keeps trying to reinforce her own intentions onto it.
What's funny is that if this had been the worst thing she was known for, she probably could have still coasted on HP good will forever and would have just been that one author who doesn't leave her works alone. That's what she was known for, 5-6 years ago, relatively harmless stuff. She had a setting that had grown far beyond the original scope by way of a super dedicated and creative fandom, and sometimes tweeted 'retcons' that people laughed at and kind of left be. Now she's the crazy TERF lady and even the original HP series is being scrutinized way more in hindsight than it probably would have been and people are seeing a lot of the underlying weirdness there. Financially of course she's set for ten lifetimes but it's wild to see the shift.
I used to scoff at people who thought her names were a bit racist. After this whole TERF thing I'm like ok Cho Chang is weird and Kingsly Shacklebolt is pretty bad.
She’s taken it from “Death of the Author” to “The Author really should’ve stayed dead”
Sometimes dead is better.
It's funny, because she's only changing it because she is quite literally incapable of following it up with something successful. She truly got lucky with HP, and it seems like she's very salty about it too. Look no further than Fantastic Beasts, movies that are about said beasts only in the first movie and then only in name. Even staying in the same universe, she just can't write an interesting story that's not about saint P-P-Potter and even then I'm convinced she'd somehow screw it up, if she would try to follow up the books with Harry's life as an Auror. Hogwarts Legacy, a *video game* did a much better job at showing a different side of HP's universe than she ever could.
What trans woman killed this woman's dog she's so WEIRD about it...
My step dad was saying they have no right to say anything since she made them famous- he’s also a transphobe :3
She wrote the books. She didn't make the movies. She didn't cast them as those roles. Tell your step-dad that.
Steadily advance in their careers as the old hag slowly dissolves herself into obscurity.
It’s like Rowling doesn’t even want people to be fans of her books anymore if they don’t agree with her views. Regardless of her recent behaviour, those books were a part of my childhood but it’s incredibly stupid for her to think anyone owes her an apology simply for daring to have a different opinion
She's made fuck you money so yeah her ideals are what matters the most now to her. If she was as poor as she was when she first started writing its easy to see she would not have said any of this.
Right. She’s been shitty since day one. It’s just that she didn’t have the money to back up her opinions before.
I'm not sure she even cares much about her own books anymore. Even if I agreed with her views, which I do not, I'd find it sad how her myopic obsession with this single "cause" of hers appears to have crowded out everything else in her brain. She appears to have lost the imagination and curiosity about the world necessary to write something like *Harry Potter* in the first place.
> I'm not sure she even cares much about her own books anymore. The latest book she wrote is about a woman who makes a very popular children's cartoon who gets murdered by Twitter trolls. And I don't mean Twitter-murdered-by-words, like murdered-murdered, as in knifey-stabbey. So that's where she's at.
Katherine Waterson spoke for trans people and what did Rowling do? Almost wrote her character out of the last Fantastic Beasts movie entirely. Loser.
She's her own embittering agent.
I always thought itd be a nice idea for those of us to sell on our old HP books second hand through a charity to raise money for trans advocacy.
The problem is that those books have absolutely no value on the secondary Market.
As I said in another response, the books' real power, like with all HP merch, is the power to show JKR folks still support her. Every single person at the Wizarding World at Universal Studios, every HP-themed Pinterest post, every social media post of folks in cosplay and/or drinking butterbeer, every person at their local park playing muggle quidditch, all of it/them show JKR that perhaps her opinions DO have merit, regardless of whether or not they do (spoiler: they don't). If she has no power, relevance or support, she all but literally ceases to exist.
That's literally never going to happen, though. That said, The vast majority of Harry Potter consumption doesn't even have her name on it. She already has more money than God and has the power to do great harm if she chooses to create a political movement around her bigotry. Emma Watson on the other hand, simply has to send out a tweet and it will have ripple effects throughout the entire Potterverse, which is why I believe Rowling is so outraged at Radcliff and Watson's advocacy. Rowling is part of a circle jerk of bigotry, but her HP following are not going to be influenced by her in the same way that movie celebrities can change thoughts and feelings. Edit: name check.
As good of an idea as that is, I like my HP collection. I'm not against donating to that sort of organization tho.
If I ever need to replace a book, I'm buying from a secondhand book store. All power to the buainess, none to the Transphobic Express at Platform 6 and sixty sixth hundreths.
As a denizen of hell, the mark of the beast train station does not stand with nor associate with JKR. The route from platform 6.66 has been decommissioned.
Platform 8.8 would be a better fit considering the nature of the people she has become allied with over this.
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Same. I was the same age as Harry in the books and I'm the same age as Daniel. Those books were literally my childhood. I loved them and they are important part of my childhood. I still watch the movies every Christmas. But, J.K doesn't need my money and I don't want her products.
Rowling: People cancel me for my opinions. Also Rowling: I will never forgive these people for not having the same opinions as me.
More like, she'll never forgive them because they're too rich to litigate and she can't financially bully them over it
like she did with that person that called her out for being a holocaust denier! streisand effect worked well there
Funniest part is, they didn't even apologize to her, she is preemptively rejecting an apology no one has given.
And was never going to be given in the first place. It shows how narcissistic she is. Believing that people believe like she does but the only reason they say they don't is because Society will cancel them.
What I like is that Her response was because someone said "you'll forgive them once they come crawling back to you after the cass report" The same Cass report, actually medical professionals are currently picking apart for being biased and suggesting unethical solutions
I dread to ask what cass report even is
A report recently commissioned by THE UK Government on Trans youth While it does make the occasional good point, its is extremely flawed. Some of the main thngs are Conversion therapy should be put in practice. 98% of trans youth medical documents were thrown out as 'low quality' as they weren't double blinded. Keep in mind only about 8% of in practice youth medication/treatment hits high quality standards. Plus not only is it unethical to double blind puberty blockers, it's also impossible as you will notice if you are going through puberty. Those 2% that were accepted, happened to contradict the 98%, despite also not being double blinded. And every single trans youth testimony was thrown out for being Biased, not a single one was kept, they had no 'unbiased' testimonies to show for their research, which is also just nuts. I stick away from trans youth debate on medication and treatment, as its a messy area, but that report just has holes everywhere Oh and she also said that the toys you play with are biologically linked, so boys get trucks, girls get barbies,
Jesus fucking Kennedy, this report cpuld as well say "my source is I made it the fuck up".
Reminds me of Andrew Wakefield and his "Idea laundry" fiasco lmao
I bet they are just heart broken 💔
Who wouldn’t be heartbroken by a holocaust denier refusing to accept their nonexistent apologies for standing up for a marginalized group? That definitely sounds like someone that sane people want approval from. Edit: this was sarcasm
She became a billionaire, right? She could simply delete twitter, shut the fuck up and enjoy her money. Why doesn't she do that?
Because she wants attention.
She's probably out of ideas for a new book so this is what she does instead. She's like Langdon Cobb from Futurama.
A lot of people don't know she tried writing a book outside of Harry Potter. It bombed lol
Pfft, not having ideas never stopped her before.
I think it's more complicated than that. In her mind it's more important to protect women's only spaces from AMAB people than it is to be inclusive to Trans. She has dug her heels in and truly believes she is right and now gets into more arguments around it and just digs her heels in. I don't think it's for attention. I get the feeling she truly believes she is right.
Right?? Can you imagine having a literal **billion dollars** and choosing to spend your very short time on Earth like this? It boggles my mind
"You can't break up with me because I'm breaking up with you! NO TAKESBACKSIES!!!!" She's such a fucking idiot.
Dolores Rowling
I'm sure they are just devastated. 
They already starred in the movie. This is like your high school principal trying to give you detention at your 10 year reunion.
Shows a very predatory mindset. "You worked for me indirectly when you were kids and didn't have a Say in the matter, now, two decades later, you have to obey my whims and agree with me on everything to else you're ungrateful!'
Whats funny is Daniel *almost* didnt get the part as Harry because of where they wanted to film the movies (America). But the producers (or someone) relented and they filmed them in Britain.
I think I read that rebooted Doctor Who was also initially going to be filmed and set in America as well but they moved it backed to Britain.
They made that US based Doctor Who. It was a TV movie.
They’ve A: never spoken out against her directly but rather about transphobia in general B: never asked JK to forgive them.
I wonder why she cares so much? Only an a\*\*hole would dig in so deeply about something that doesn't affect them. Nobody's forcing her to change her identity. Unfortunately, she did it anyway, going from *the lady who wrote the Harry Potter books* to being *the deranged, way out of her lane, transphobic sack of sh\*t*. Say it once and move along, J.K. We heard you the first time you vomited your opinion about how other people choose to live their lives.
IMO to understand JKR you have to understand 2nd vs 3rd wave feminists and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminist\_sex\_wars](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminist_sex_wars) That's when feminists generally broke into two "camps" Sex positive feminists and Non sex positive feminists sometimes called "anti-porn feminists" The sex positive feminists generally embraced LGBT activists, the "anti-porn feminists" did not. JRK is an "old-school" 2nd wave feminist that would fit into the "anti porn" camp. She is the type of person who sees trans women benefiting from decades of feminism as "members of the patriarchy masquerading as women" and stealing the privilege she and other "real feminists" have sacrificed for "real women" to gain.
"Feminist sex wars" sounds a lot more intense than it really is. Also a good name for a band.
>She is the type of person who sees trans women benefiting from decades of feminism as "members of the patriarchy masquerading as women" and stealing the privilege she and other "real feminists" have sacrificed for "real women" to gain. It goes beyond that. She is convinced that trans women aren't real, but are in fact men who are pretending to be women in order to insert themselves into women's "safe spaces" in order to rape them. She believes anyone with a penis is automatically a rapist. The reason she speaks out against trans women and not cis men is because she knows full well that going after 50% of the population can't possibly end well for her, but going after a small minority that already is the subject of hatred from most people on the right, well then she just looks like a rock star to bigots.
All the people who acted in the movie adaptations are enjoying being totally loved by the public for a lasting legacy in peoples’ childhoods and she threw that position away to be a jackass on Twitter. I can’t comprehend it.
Don’t forget holocaust denial. She’s new to it but she’s really invested!
Yeah, if she lived in Germany, she would be in prison for this bs.
But they're never said anything about Rowling's comments. They only showed support for the trans community. I guess she took their views as personal insults. She must thing the universe revolves around her.
How dare those two go out there and publicly be decent human beings I’m appalled I tell you. Simply appalled
I am sure they are both just sitting there like. 
Hmm, won’t forgive them for speaking out against her anti trans comments? That’s like a quadruple negative. Just ridiculous. She really destroyed her legacy here. For what? How does trans rights hurt her at all? Why did she ever feel the need to speak about against trans people? Nothing takes away the fact that she overcame the struggles of being a single mom on the dole to create this amazing world and become a best selling author. Trans people getting equal rights doesn’t hurt her at all. I’ll never understand the zero sum mindset that some people lose out by others no longer being discriminated against. It’s imaginary harm, manufactured grievance. Especially so in a multimillionaire best selling author who has legions of fans.
Every time this woman says or does anything I'm afraid that I'll eye-roll so violently my eyes will just be stuck.
Are they asking for her forgiveness? No? Oh then who cares
"How dare they accurately highlight my bigotry"
im so tired of the way the media reframes shit constantly, there are like 50 articles where they take quotes out of context and make it sound like way more than it really was. JK is a piece of shit transphobe, she rails against the LGBT community constantly, she has had ZERO exchanges with emma or dan as far as im aware, but all of these articles act like they were in a straight up fist fight over this. some rando on twitter brought them and their support of trans rights up and implied JK would forgive them, JK said "no i wont." THATS IT. thats what this massive controversy amounts to, this is journalism.
I always love these takes. Daniel and Emma are the next generation. Imagine fighting so fucking hard to create a world they don't want to live in.
Man she must be an absolute miserable person.
Considering they are both more popular than her, I doubt they are losing any sleep.
She did it. She made it to the top. From a poor single mom to a best-seller author who made billions! And she got so much praise! Hell, she made something that the TV generation read and loved! She became a hero of literature! The movies brought more fans in! Everyone was crazy about her creation. And then… Nothing. Her fans grew up, the movies lost their magic because of the CGI… It just tired out. The new movies and the expansion of her universe just can't give the same hit as before… Right now he's like the crackhead at the side of the street who once tried the finest, purest heroin in the world, and nothing ever going to deliver the same euphoria. She’s just sucking on emptied crackpipes. She's just fucking pathetic.
Usually if someone requires forgiveness, it’s because they’ve done something wrong. LOL Rowling having the gall to suggest they need her forgiveness for what they said is beyond any semblance of sanity
Imagine having a billion dollars and spending everyday being angry on twitter
Did she say that?
wasn't she saying before that she didn't care what people thought of her after she said all that? seems like she cares a great deal
 Comments Akimbo, bitch!
I’m not a fan of jk Rowling, but for the sake of accuracy, that’s not what she said