Harry Potter writer JK Rowling has responded to calls to boycott Hogwarts Legacy over her feedback relating to the transgender group, saying that those that refuse to play the upcoming recreation also needs to refuse to learn the Harry Potter books and watch the flicks.
JK Rowling tweets about Hogwarts Legacy boycott plan
Rowling responded to author and filmmaker Jessie Earl on Twitter, after Earl posted a tweet saying that supporting Hogwarts Legacy is “dangerous,” as Rowling makes use of her “ongoing platform to focus on and in addition justify her continued concentrating on of trans folks is dangerous to trans folks.”
In response, Rowling tweeted that “the really righteous wouldn’t simply burn their books and flicks however the native library, something with an owl on it and their very own pet canine.”
Deeply upset @jessiegender does not realise purethink is incompatible with proudly owning ANYTHING related with me, in ANY kind. The really righteous would not simply burn their books and flicks however the native library, something with an owl on it and their very own pet canine. #DoBetter 1/2 pic.twitter.com/LqANqab8Km
— J.Ok. Rowling (@jk_rowling) December 17, 2022
And as for this, I am appalled. This particular person really advocates studying the books as a result of “no one must know”. All tremendous and dandy till you get drunk and by chance quote one, sonny. “I by no means did it in public” will not prevent when the police see your Hufflepuff socks. 2/2 pic.twitter.com/QTQOTfpjtA
— J.Ok. Rowling (@jk_rowling) December 17, 2022
Rowling has been extensively criticized lately because of feedback she has made in regards to the transgender group and public appearances she has made alongside many within the gender-critical group. Her outspokenness on the subject prompted Harry Potter actors Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint to talk out in opposition to the writer, with Radcliffe publishing an open letter wherein he acknowledged: “Transgender girls are girls.”
Hogwarts Legacy writer WB Video games additionally considerably distanced themselves from Rowling in an announcement launched again in 2020, wherein they mentioned she was “indirectly concerned within the creation of the sport,” although praised her “extraordinary physique of writing.” WB Video games’ president David Haddad additionally commented on the controversy surrounding the writer, saying that “she’s entitled to specific her private opinion on social media.”