His absence had been very noticeable, on January 1, in the program that brought together the actors of the Harry Potter films, go back to hogwarts. JK Rowling, the author of the literary saga behind the films, was not part of the cast.
“I didn’t want to do it,” the novelist said in an interview with British radio on Saturday, quelling rumors that she had been excluded from this meeting because of her views as transphobic.
“It was more about the movies than the books”
“They asked me to participate. I decided I didn’t want to do it. I thought, rightly so, that it was more about the movies than the books,” he still noted. “Nobody told me ‘don’t do it’. They asked me to do it and I decided not to do it.” The show marked the 20th anniversary of the saga in cinema.
In 2020 JK Rowling tweeted an article referring to “menstruating people”, commenting wryly, “I’m sure we had to have a word for these people. Somebody help me. Feum? Famme? Feemm?” Thus, he had provoked the anger of certain Internet users, who had reminded him that transgender men could have their period and transgender women could not.
Several actors in the saga had then disassociated themselves from the author, from Daniel Radcliffe to Emma Watson and Ruper Grint.
In the United States, Quidditch teams have even changed the name of their discipline, now called Quadball.
Source: BFM TV
