{"id":190731,"date":"2025-09-29T21:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T21:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/190731\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T21:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T21:10:09","slug":"j-k-rowling-shares-long-post-doubling-down-on-emma-watson-rift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/190731\/","title":{"rendered":"J.K. Rowling shares long post doubling down on Emma Watson rift"},"content":{"rendered":"

The whole situation with J.K. Rowling and Emma Watson keeps getting worse. Based on Rowling\u2019s latest, nearly 700-word post<\/a>, one might think Watson gleefully cast the Cruciatus curse on the Harry Potter author\u2019s family. In reality, she just said the following<\/a> in an interview on the On Purpose With Jay Shetty podcast<\/a> last week: \u201cI think it\u2019s my deepest wish that I hope people who don\u2019t agree with my opinion will love me, and I hope I can keep loving people who I don\u2019t necessarily share the same opinion with.\u201d Rowling clearly does not share this wish, nor does she seem to have retained a lot of love for the actor she\u2019s known since Watson was 11. Last week, Rowling reposted a video<\/a> mocking Watson\u2019s comments on X. Today\u2019s post only doubled down on her earlier suggestion that she\u2019d never forgive<\/a> Watson (or her co-stars Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint) for their public dissent.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not owed eternal agreement from any actor who once played a character I created,\u201d Rowling opened, before reiterating that \u201cEmma Watson and her co-stars have every right to embrace gender identity ideology.\u201d What she takes issue with, however, is the fact that \u201cEmma and Dan in particular have both made it clear over the last few years that they think our former professional association gives them a particular right \u2013 nay, obligation \u2013 to critique me and my views in public.\u201d Watson has arguably done this very little. In 2020, Watson posted<\/a>, \u201cTrans people are who they say they are and deserve to live their lives without being constantly questioned or told they aren\u2019t who they say they are,\u201d without mentioning Rowling by name as the author\u2019s transphobia ramped up online<\/a>. Two years later, she said she was here for \u201call the witches\u201d in a BAFTA speech<\/a> Rowling directly referenced in today\u2019s post.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That speech, which again, did not mention Rowling by name, was apparently a \u201cturning point\u201d for the author, but it \u201chad a postscript that hurt far more than the speech itself.\u201d \u201cEmma asked someone to pass on a handwritten note from her to me, which contained the single sentence \u2018I\u2019m so sorry for what you\u2019re going through\u2019 (she has my phone number),\u201d Rowling\u2019s post continued. \u201cThis was back when the death, rape and torture threats against me were at their peak, at a time when my personal security measures had had to be tightened considerably and I was constantly worried for my family\u2019s safety. Emma had just publicly poured more petrol on the flames, yet thought a one line expression of concern from her would reassure me of her fundamental sympathy and kindness.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rowling then went on to imply that Watson is \u201cignorant of how ignorant she is\u201d because \u201clike other people who\u2019ve never experienced adult life uncushioned by wealth and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life.\u201d To Rowling, that life Watson hasn\u2019t experienced includes \u201cmixed sex public hospital ward[s]\u201d and the possibility of \u201csharing a prison cell with a male rapist who\u2019s identified into the women\u2019s prison.\u201d These are all things Rowling understands, of course, because she \u201cwasn\u2019t a multimillionaire at fourteen\u201d and \u201clived in poverty while writing the book that made Emma famous.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAdults can\u2019t expect to cosy up to an activist movement that regularly calls for a friend\u2019s assassination, then assert their right to the former friend\u2019s love, as though the friend was in fact their mother,\u201d Rowling\u2019s post concluded. \u201cEmma is rightly free to disagree with me and indeed to discuss her feelings about me in public \u2013 but I have the same right, and I\u2019ve finally decided to exercise it.\u201d It doesn\u2019t seem like this spat will be over any time soon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The whole situation with J.K. Rowling and Emma Watson keeps getting worse. Based on Rowling\u2019s latest, nearly 700-word…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":["post-190731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}