posted October 02, 2025 04:54 PM            

‘She is ignorant of how ignorant she is’: JK Rowling responds to Emma Watson rift.

The author has rebuffed conciliatory remarks made by the Harry Potter actor, saying Watson has ‘enthusiastically participated’ in the ‘trashing of women’s rights’

Harry Potter author JK Rowling has responded to Emma Watson’s recent remarks about their rift over transgender rights, saying the actor is “ignorant of how ignorant she is”.

Rowling’s post comes after a podcast interview with Watson, in which the latter said: “I really don’t believe that … holding the love and support and views that I have, mean[s] that I can’t and don’t treasure Jo and the person that I had personal experiences with.”

In a lengthy post, Rowling writes: “Emma Watson and her co-stars have every right to embrace gender identity ideology. Such beliefs are legally protected, and I wouldn’t want to see any of them threatened with loss of work, or violence, or death, because of them.”

She adds: “However, Emma and Dan [Radcliffe] in particular have both made it clear over the last few years that they think our former professional association gives them a particular right – nay, obligation – to critique me and my views in public.”

Watson, along with Harry Potter co-stars Radcliffe and Rupert Grint, has previously taken issue with the author’s gender critical beliefs. She responded to Rowling’s essay about the need for single-sex spaces due to the threat of violence against women by tweeting in 2020: “Trans people are who they say they are and deserve to live their lives without being constantly questioned or told they aren’t who they say they are.” And Watson pointedly said “I’m here for all of the witches” in a speech at the 2022 Bafta film awards.

In her post, Rowling says she has “repeatedly declined invitations” to comment on Watson’s views, as she “didn’t want her to be hounded as the result of anything I said”, and describes a note she was given from Watson, following her 2022 Baftas remarks. “This was back when the death, rape and torture threats against me were at their peak, at a time when my personal security measures had had to be tightened considerably and I was constantly worried for my family’s safety. Emma had just publicly poured more petrol on the flames, yet thought a one line expression of concern from her would reassure me of her fundamental sympathy and kindness.”

Rowling added: “Like other people who’ve never experienced adult life uncushioned by wealth and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life she’s ignorant of how ignorant she is … I wasn’t a multimillionaire at fourteen. I lived in poverty while writing the book that made Emma famous. I therefore understand from my own life experience what the trashing of women’s rights in which Emma has so enthusiastically participated means to women and girls without her privileges.”

posted October 03, 2025 01:40 AM            

I see it as cowardice on their part. Emma Watson (and those with her) wanted to virtue signal, feel good about themselves by simply stating words that passed for actual effort, and not anger the hateful crowd (the same crowd that sent a number of threats against Rowling despite that such threats were essentially proving JK Rowling correct). It would've been so easy to condemn the threats of violence against JK Rowling, even if still disagreeing with the author. It takes as much effort as to virtue signal with empty words.

And if she can't even condemn threats of rape and murder against Rowling then what good is she going to be as a so-called "goodwill ambassador" for women to the United Nations?

JK Rowling is right. Emma Watson is ignorant, and way too sheltered to understand what life is like for the less fortunate, or even able to understand what life is like for everyday people. That's why she's not seen as a threat to the UN. The UN will make it appear they care about women and then keep on oppressing women and even engaged in sex trafficking. When all else fails, EW's own cowardice will cause her to back off. That's the real reason she was chosen by the UN.

If the UN was actually serious then someone like Kathryn Bolkovac would have the position. As a former cop for the UN she knows how the system works, and she worked to expose UN peacekeepers and bureaucrats who were abusing and trafficking in often underage girls. She'd know what she was up against, understand international law, and have the spine to do whatever she had to do. That's why someone like Bolkovac will never have such a title, and it will go to the naive and cowardly like Emma Watson instead. (I bring it up to show that others are far more qualified IF the position was serious rather than merely for show.)