Yes, I know we support a lot of different products that end up giving money to bad people or bad corporations that do bad things with it, but this one feels more tangible. It stands to reason that yes, any time any Harry Potter property makes money, that filters back directly to JK Rowling herself. No, she may not be writing Fantastic Beast scripts or working on Hogwarts Legacy, but this is not a George Lucas situation where she’s sold the rights to Harry Potter to WB (as much as they might love that). JK Rowling is also not divorced from Harry Potter as an entity. JK Rowling is doing active harm to them daily. And this is not a settled issue in our society, in that in America we have Texas attempting to enforce egregious anti-trans laws against children and their parents, and the trans community remains one of the most at-risk groups around the world, namely because of how we’ve treated them. JK Rowling is very much around today, and constantly making headlines with fresh anti-trans rhetoric daily, a truly bizarre obsession of hers that has made her one of the lead figures in the anti-trans movement. (Photo by Gareth Davies/Getty Images) Getty Imagesīut I also understand how the JK Rowling situation is different, and divorced from say, someone like HP Lovecraft and his extremely awful views on race, as he died in 1937. The film is titled "Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone" for it's U.S. (Harry Potter) and Emma Watson (Hermione Granger) attend the world film premiere of "Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone" at the Odeon Leicester Square cinema in London on November 4, 2001. LONDON - NOVEMBER 4: (L to R) Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley), author J.K.
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