Emma Watson of Harry Potter fame (really? What else has she done?) jumped on the bandwagon and dissed JK Rowling for her realistic views on trans. Now she wants to make peace with Rowling and is backtracking her statements. Not good enough!
https://nypost.com/2025/09/29/entertainment/j-k-rowling-trashes-emma-watson-over-how-ignorant-she-is-in-latest-swipe-in-years-long-rift/“Like other people who’ve never experienced adult life uncushioned by wealth and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life she’s ignorant of how ignorant she is,” Rowling said in a scathing post on X.
“I wasn’t a multimillionaire at fourteen. I lived in poverty while writing the book that made Emma famous. I therefore understand from my own life experience what the trashing of women’s rights in which Emma has so enthusiastically participated means to women and girls without her privileges.”
Rowling has long said she would never forgive Watson, as well as co-star Daniel Radcliffe, for their criticism — which the author said led to “death, rape and torture threats” at the time.
“The greatest irony here is that, had Emma not decided in her most recent interview to declare that she loves and treasures me — a change of tack I suspect she’s adopted because she’s noticed full-throated condemnation of me is no longer quite as fashionable as it was — I might never have been this honest,” Rowling said.
“Adults can’t expect to [cozy] up to an activist movement that regularly calls for a friend’s assassination, then assert their right to the former friend’s love, as though the friend was in fact their mother,” she continued.
“Emma is rightly free to disagree with me and indeed to discuss her feelings about me in public — but I have the same right, and I’ve finally decided to exercise it.”
