Tom Slater Tom Slater

JK Rowling, not Daniel Radcliffe, is the heroine of the gender debate

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.

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