Overview

• Rowling wrote on X that Emma Watson has little real-life experience and is ignorant, directly dismissing any reconciliation.
• She contrasted her own poverty while writing the first Harry Potter book with Watson’s early fame, framing the dispute as one of privilege and perspective.
• Rowling argued Watson’s advocacy damages women’s rights, citing examples such as mixed hospital wards, changing rooms and prisons.
• She accused Watson and other former child stars, including Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint, of using their Potter ties as de facto spokespeople for her fictional world.
• Watson had told Jay Shetty’s podcast she would not cancel Rowling and remained open to dialogue; coverage reports Rowling characterized the shift as opportunism.