Some people accuse millennials of being ungrateful and entitled. Sadly, many of our celebrities do little to disabuse the public of this notion. Take the young cast of the Harry Potter films. Despite being, let’s face it, an assemblage of rather ropey talents who would be nowhere without the series, they have taken in recent years to denouncing JK Rowling: the woman to whom they owe everything.
To those who have been living under a rock, the once feted children’s author has, in recent years, caused intense and sustained outrage. Her crime? Saying some quite measured things about transgenderism. Rowling thinks biological sex exists and that letting male-bodied people into Rape Crisis centres is probably not a good idea. For these damnable heresies she has faced a barrage of death threats and been treated like a pariah. She’s even been left out of Potter retrospectives and had her name quietly removed from trailers promoting the film versions of her own work.
To salt the wound, the stars of the original Potter flicks have also publicly denounced
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