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JK Rowling appears to criticise Harry Potter’s three stars amid feud

In response to a social media post asking who ‘ruins a movie for you’, the author alluded to Radcliffe, Watson and Grint, with whom she has fallen out over trans rights

Harry Potter author JK Rowling appears to have criticised the three leading actors of the eight-film franchise in a post on social media. Although the targets of the remark are not explicitly stated, she appears to be referring to Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint, who played Potter, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley between 2001 and 2011, and with whom Rowling spectacularly fell out in 2020 after she published an essay about surviving sexual assault in which she called transgender identity “deeply misogynistic and regressive”. Ralph Fiennes, who played Voldemort, subsequently offered support to Rowling in an interview in the Telegraph, saying that “the verbal abuse directed at her is disgusting”, while Helena Bonham Carter, who played Bellatrix Lestrange, told the Times: “It’s been taken to the extreme, the judgmentalism of people.

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