Harry Potter Writer JK Rowling Responds to Hogwarts Legacy Boycott

Harry Potter creator 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 must also refuse to learn the Harry Potter books and watch the films.

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 films however the native library, something with an owl on it and their very own pet canine.”

Deeply disenchanted @jessiegender would not realise purethink is incompatible with proudly owning ANYTHING linked with me, in ANY kind. The really righteous would not simply burn their books and films however the native library, something with an owl on it and their very own pet canine. #DoBetter 1/2 pic.twitter.com/LqANqab8Km

— J.Okay. Rowling (@jk_rowling) December 17, 2022

And as for this, I am appalled. This particular person truly advocates studying the books as a result of “no person must know”. All positive and dandy till you get drunk and by accident 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.Okay. Rowling (@jk_rowling) December 17, 2022

Rowling has been extensively criticized lately as a consequence 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 creator, with Radcliffe publishing an open letter during which he acknowledged: “Transgender girls are girls.”

Hogwarts Legacy writer WB Video games additionally considerably distanced themselves from Rowling in a press release launched again in 2020, during which they mentioned she was “in a roundabout way 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 creator, saying that “she’s entitled to precise her private opinion on social media.”