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Without JK Rowling, I doubt any of us would have heard of Emma Watson. If Rowling and her franchise hadn\u2019t been such a behemoth, it would be also tough to care about the confused views of a 30-something former child star.<\/p>\n
Without JK Rowling, Emma Watson, who played Hermione Grainger in the Harry Potter<\/a> film series, would not be worth an estimated $85 million (\u00a363 million) or still be considered worth interviewing, even though she has not acted since 2019.<\/p>\n Without JK Rowling, I doubt Emma Watson\u2019s anodyne speeches as a UN goodwill ambassador \u2013 in which she declared herself a feminist, but one who wants to smash the stereotypes of feminists being unattractive man-haters, and who wants to involve a billion men in \u201cthe movement\u201d \u2013 would have received much publicity.<\/p>\n Without Emma Watson, however, JK Rowling\u2019s life would have followed very much the trajectory it was ever going to follow. Not to mention, in recent years, maybe it would have been made slightly easier.<\/p>\n In a lengthy tweet on Sunday, JK Rowling robustly criticised, among many other things, Watson\u2019s \u201cI\u2019m here for ALL the witches\u201d speech at the 2022 Baftas, which was widely seen as a thinly veiled dig at Rowling for not supporting trans women. As Rowling notes<\/a>, \u201cEmma had just publicly poured more petrol on the flames\u201d at a time when she feared for her family\u2019s safety.<\/p>\n This is the same self-made author who created phenomenally successful worlds, became globally beloved the world over and then decided, when she saw women\u2019s rights under threat through gender ideology, to lead the fight and put her money where her mouth is.<\/p>\n Everyone who has worked with Rowling and benefitted from her talent could have supported her or put up and shut up. But luvvies can be ignorant sheep.<\/p>\n Watson and her fellow Harry Potter actor, Daniel Radcliffe, both sheltered stars who speak out on matters beyond their intelligence, decided to turn on the woman who had made them.<\/p>\n Without digesting or comprehending a single sentence of Rowling\u2019s deeply researched objections to the child mutilation of reassignment surgery<\/a>, the harms of self-identification, the closing down of free speech or the dangers of housing vulnerable women with biological men, they decided not to think for themselves, but to follow the herd with their public pro-trans responses.<\/p>\n In 2020, the same year that Radcliffe posted that \u201ctransgender women are women\u201d, Watson babbled the usual meaningless trash about \u201cpeople are who they say they are\u201d. Thus, she too betrayed her benefactor.<\/p>\n Rowling had known Watson and Radcliffe since they were 10 years old, and now her life was under threat. For the last few years, she has had to live with high levels of security because of endless death and rape threats to her family.<\/p>\n This is what happens if you say biology is real. And still, she persists.<\/p>\n Watson\u2019s latest \u201capology\u201d \u2013 in an interview on Jay Shetty<\/a>\u2019s On Purpose podcast, Watson said she still \u201cloves\u201d and \u201ctreasures\u201d Rowling \u2013 isn\u2019t an apology.<\/p>\n Credit: YouTube\/Jay Shetty Podcast<\/span><\/p>\n It is neither fish nor fowl, with some psychobabble about holding space for Rowling in her heart. It is cognitive dissonance dissolved into meaningless platitudes. Watson\u2019s expensive education clearly did not cover emotional intelligence.<\/p>\n Ironically, it was the hypocrisy of Watson\u2019s backpeddling in that podcast interview that prompted Rowling\u2019s articulate comeback at this over-privileged princess. And, ironically, it now makes Watson appear even more callous than before.<\/p>\n Rowling claims that, after the metaphorical petrol-pouring, Watson sent her a handwritten note saying, \u201cI\u2019m so sorry for what you\u2019re going through\u201d. As Rowling points out, Watson was on the side of those who wanted her assassination. A floral notelet is hardly going to cut it.<\/p>\n Watson could have also called Rowling. But that, I suppose, would have taken guts. Self-awareness. Maturity. To think that a brief handwritten letter, plus a soft-focus apology on a mental health podcast, could make up for the sins of the past shows Watson\u2019s level of delusion.<\/p>\n \u201cLike other people who\u2019ve never experienced adult life uncushioned by wealth and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life she\u2019s ignorant of how ignorant she is,\u201d says Rowling. \u201cShe\u2019ll never need a homeless shelter. She\u2019s never going to be placed on a mixed sex public hospital ward. I\u2019d be astounded if she\u2019s been in a high street changing room since childhood.\u201d<\/p>\n Rowling never forgets what it was like to be poor. Watson simply has no idea.<\/p>\n