The Harry Potter author, who says she has been scared for her family’s safety, believes ‘time will tell whether I’ve got this wrong’
Harry Potter author JK Rowling has said she knew that when she spoke out about her views on transgender issues “many folks would be deeply unhappy with me”., she said that despite assertions she has betrayed the messages in the Harry Potter novels, she believes she is “absolutely upholding the positions that I took in Potter”.
Rowling said on the podcast: “When I first became interested in, and then deeply troubled by, what I saw as a cultural movement that was illiberal in its methods and questionable in its ideas, I absolutely knew that if I spoke out, many people who love my books would be deeply unhappy with me. But despite knowing “this could be really bad” and saying she had been “scared at times for my safety and, overwhelmingly, for my family’s safety”, Rowling said she still wanted to speak and that “time will tell whether I’ve got this wrong”.
The author has been criticised by Harry Potter fans. In 2022 competitive quidditch, named for and modelled on the sport in the novels,, with one of its governing bodies citing Rowling’s “anti-trans positions” as a reason for the change.
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