Not too long ago, “Harry Potter” legacy actress Emma Watson spoke on a podcast during a rare interview, revealing that she and author/creator J.K. Rowling haven’t really talked on the subject of trans rights (alluding to Rowling not being interested), but left the door open for that conversation to happen as sort of an olive branch offering saying she still “treasured” the author.
However, it doesn’t sound like Rowling is very interested in speaking with Watson on any level, as she posted a scathing social media post where she called the self-retired actress “ignorant” for not having enough “life experience,” despite Watson (35) now being in her mid-30s and certainly capable of rational/clear perspectives on the matter of trans rights like most adults with basic critical thinking and can see through bigoted reasoning (this insane idea that trans people want bathroom access to commit sexual assault).
The billionaire author/playwright/screenwriter (who doesn’t have much common sense to start with these responses online) mentioned her time in poverty as a reason for having more “life experience” than Watson, which has very little to do with WHY the creative is spending her free time attacking the trans community (now putting her money into anti-trans political actions in the United Kingdom based on spreading misinformation and fear). Citing her biogited and weird perspectives on trans rights and mentioned oddball hypothetical situations like Watson being “in a women’s prison with a male rapist.”
Here is a portion of Rowling’s extremely weird post in response to Watson:
“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. She’ll never need a homeless shelter. She’s never going to be placed on a mixed sex public hospital ward. I’d be astounded if she’s been in a high street changing room since childhood. Her ‘public bathroom’ is single occupancy and comes with a security man standing guard outside the door. Has she had to strip off in a newly mixed-sex changing room at a council-run swimming pool? Is she ever likely to need a state-run rape crisis centre that refuses to guarantee an all-female service? To find herself sharing a prison cell with a male rapist who’s identified into the women’s prison? 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. 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. Adults can’t expect to cosy 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. 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.”
Again, Rowling’s responses to ANY criticisms (when it comes to Watson, they were certainly minor and measured, while also optimistic for a line of communication in the future) are usually misinformed and nasty, but she comes off extra petty and dismissive here despite the previous relationship the two once had (also, as Watson has pointed out they haven’t spoken to each other on the subject at hand).
This is just an opinion, but Rowling’s wording in this post could suggest that she does have some emotional feelings towards the original actors speaking up publicly against her anti-trans stances, and could help support the “theory” that she specifically wanted to reboot “Harry Potter” for this new HBO Max series as a pretext to remove Watson and the others as the face of the franchise. Not sure if Warner Bros. or HBO is going to be terribly excited to see Rowling publicly attacking former cast members, but who knows?
I'm seeing quite a bit of comment about this, so I want to make a couple of points.
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) September 29, 2025
I'm not owed eternal agreement from any actor who once played a character I created. The idea is as ludicrous as me checking with the boss I had when I was twenty-one for what opinions I should… https://t.co/c0pz19P7jc
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