J.K. Rowling Addresses Why She Skipped Out On Harry Potter Reunion Special

J.Ok. Rowling is lastly addressing her absence from the Harry Potter reunion particular.

As tremendous followers of the flicks almost certainly recall, most of the movie franchise’s stars, together with Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint, administrators, and producers reunited for the Harry Potter twentieth Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts on HBO Max originally of the yr. However notably absent from the tv occasion? The 57-year-old creator of the guide collection – though she did seem in archival clips.

So when Graham Norton talked about that J.Ok. was “excluded” from the movie throughout an interview on Virgin Radio Saturday, she rapidly set the report straight. The author defined:

“I wasn’t, really. I used to be requested to be on that, and I made a decision I didn’t need to do it. I assumed it was concerning the movies greater than the books, fairly rightly. That was what the anniversary was about. Nobody mentioned don’t [do it]…I used to be requested to do it and I made a decision to not.”

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Even when what she mentioned is true, there isn’t any doubt that her becoming a member of the actors from the movie collection for the reunion could be slightly awkward – to say the least. Lately, Rowling has confronted a ton of backlash for her anti-transgender rhetoric – together with in 2020 when she slammed an article for utilizing the inclusive phrase “individuals who menstruate” as a substitute of the phrase “girls.” She wrote on the time:

“I’m certain there was a phrase for these individuals. Somebody assist me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?”

A number of stars of Harry Potter known as out the novelist, together with Emma, Rupert, and Daniel. The Girl in Black star even wrote an essay for the LGBTQ+ group The Trevor Venture to sentence her problematic views, saying on the time:

“Whereas Jo is definitely liable for the course my life has taken, as somebody who has been honored to work with and continues to contribute to The Trevor Venture for the final decade, and simply as a human being, I really feel compelled to say one thing at this second. Transgender girls are girls. Any assertion on the contrary erases the id and dignity of transgender individuals and goes in opposition to all recommendation given by skilled well being care associations who’ve way more experience on this material than both Jo or I.”

Regardless of the controversy, J.Ok. has continued to double down on her stance and make dangerous transphobic remarks on her social media. Soooo we really feel like a majority of the solid members wouldn’t be too upset if she continued to skip out on any future reunion!

Elsewhere within the conservation, Rowling touched on her sophisticated relationship with social media after receiving loss of life threats for expressing her help for Salman Rushdie who was stabbed at a literary competition at New York State’s Chautauqua Establishment earlier this month. She mirrored:

“I attempt to behave on-line as I would really like others to behave… I’ve by no means threatened anybody. I definitely wouldn’t need anybody to go to their homes or something like that. Social media could be lots of enjoyable, and I do just like the pub argument facet of it. That may be a enjoyable factor to do… I form of have a love-hate relationship with it now. I can fortunately go for a couple of days with out getting right into a [virtual] pub brawl.”

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