J.K. Rowling’s magic spell resists being cancelled
The author has been airbrushed from the Harry Potter reunion and Fantastic Beasts. But the people who buy her books and watch the films don’t seem to care about her views on transgenderism.
″I wouldn’t be the person I am without so many people here,” says Daniel Radcliffe in Return to Hogwarts, the 20th anniversary celebration of the Harry Potter film series, which aired on January 1, in which Radcliffe, his co-stars and crew reminisce about their decade in the Wizarding World. But one suspects their contributions pale next to those of the woman who very pointedly is not.
Conspicuous by her absence is the writer from whose mind the whole thing sprung in the first place. There’s no seat for J.K. Rowling at these cosy fireside chats. Instead, the author of the seven Potter novels will be shown in archive footage only. Nor is her name among the 23 star contributors trumpeted in the trailer itself: it only appears in the final frame in microscopic text, next to a copyright mark.
The Telegraph London
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