J.K. Rowling Fires Back At HARRY POTTER Star Emma Watson: "She's Ignorant Of How Ignorant She Is”

J.K. Rowling Fires Back At HARRY POTTER Star Emma Watson: "She's Ignorant Of How Ignorant She Is”

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has shared a lengthy social media post in response to recent comments from Hermione actress Emma Watson...

By MarkCassidy - Sep 30, 2025 01:09 PM EST
Filed Under: Harry Potter
Source: Via SFF Gazette.com

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has shared a lengthy social media post in response to some recent comments from Hermione Granger actress Emma Watson, and the controversial writer did not sugarcoat her feelings.

Rowling has become a highly divisive figure since her feelings on gender and the trans community were made public some years ago, and she has continued to further alienate herself from her once loyal fan base with what many perceive to be anti-trans rhetoric.

Watson spoke for the first time about her complicated relationship with Rowling during a sit-down interview on the On Purpose With Jay Shetty podcast.

“I really don’t believe that by having had that experience and holding the love and support and views that I have, mean that I can’t and don’t treasure Jo and the person that I had personal experiences with,” Watson said. “I will never believe that one negates the other and that my experience of that person, I don’t get to keep and cherish. To come back to our earlier thing — I just don’t think these things are either or. I think it’s my deepest wish that I hope people who don’t agree with my opinion will love me, and I hope I can keep loving people who I don’t necessarily share the same opinion with.”

Watson added, “I think the thing I’m most upset about is that a conversation was never made possible.” When Shetty asked if she remained open to having that dialogue, Watson replied, “Yeah, and I always will. I believe in that. I believe in that completely.”

Nothing particularly unreasonable or incendiary there, and some believe Watson may have actually been a little too diplomatic. Rowling, evidently, did not.

“Like other people who’ve never experienced adult life un-cushioned by wealth and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life she’s ignorant of how ignorant she is,” Rowling wrote in her X post. “She’ll never need a homeless shelter. She’s never going to be placed on a mixed sex public hospital ward. I’d be astounded if she’s been in a high street changing room since childhood. Her ‘public bathroom’ is single occupancy and comes with a security man standing guard outside the door. Has she had to strip off in a newly mixed-sex changing room at a council-run swimming pool? Is she ever likely to need a state-run rape crisis centre that refuses to guarantee an all-female service? To find herself sharing a prison cell with a male rapist who’s identified into the women’s prison?”

"I wasn't a multimillionaire at fourteen, I lived in poverty while writing the book that made Emma famous," Rowling went on. "I therefore understand from my own life experience what the trashing of women's rights in which Emma has so enthusiastically participated means to women and girls without her privileges."

You can check out her post in full below.

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Malatrova15
Malatrova15 - 9/30/2025, 1:35 PM
Emma was at the very least a one hit wonder actress ..glad she was put in her place ...now she can go back to enjoy His millions invested un blackrock
BackwardGalaxy
BackwardGalaxy - 9/30/2025, 2:23 PM
@Malatrova15 - JK is a POS human. Emma can look at herself in the mirror. I know whose side I'm on.
Lisa89
Lisa89 - 9/30/2025, 2:28 PM
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Ryguy88
Ryguy88 - 9/30/2025, 2:56 PM
@BackwardGalaxy - what did JK do?
Malatrova15
Malatrova15 - 9/30/2025, 3:01 PM
@Lisa89 - insult Mark AND Josh Again anni swear i Will give 13 canadiam dólares to the IDF in about fifteen months
WalletsClosed
WalletsClosed - 9/30/2025, 1:36 PM
More politics... great

Reboot the MCU and DCU
DarthOmega
DarthOmega - 9/30/2025, 2:58 PM
@WalletsClosed - Once you see how much engagement these articles get compared to how little actual comics and comic book movie articles get, it becomes much clearer.
UnderBelly
UnderBelly - 9/30/2025, 1:36 PM
I'm usually understanding of JK's pov, but her response was personal this time.. and was lacking tact. Emma sounds like she's matured and become a bit more neutral and people are allowed to change their stance (not saying she has) but she seemed quite careful and thoughtful with her words this time.

Saying that though, Emma definitely fed into the hate train as an adult against JK with her snide remarks directed to her, so she was fair game.
HistoryofMatt
HistoryofMatt - 9/30/2025, 1:44 PM
@UnderBelly - Wow, way to miss the entire point.

She made the statement because after spending the better part of the last decade trashing Rowling at every chance she got, now that people are finally waking up to the insanity of trans madness and how that social contagion has taken over so much of our culture, Watson is trying to walk back the terrible things she said while Rowling was getting death threats and worse from the people Emma thinks of as friends and "allies."

Watson, also after trashing Rowling, had someone pass a note to Rowling where she said "I'm sorry you're going through this," which is the height of cowardice. It's saying that Emma Watson KNEW what she was doing was wrong, but did it anyway because she cowardly craved her money and her fame as opposed to the truth. She also didn't call JK Rowling to apologize.

Of course it's personal. Emma Watson has done nothing but make it personal. Yesterday was the first time Rowling has commented on her and Dan's constant slandering of Rowling's reputation because she knows the truth: MEN ARE NOT WOMEN AND SHOULD NOT HAVE ACCESS TO WOMEN'S PRIVATE SPACES OR FIELDS OF SPORT.
UnderBelly
UnderBelly - 9/30/2025, 1:55 PM
@HistoryofMatt - I'm not saying Emma doesn't deserve it, but hate plus hate doesnt help anyone.

The part where she says

"Emma has so little experience of real life she's ignorant of how ignorant she is. She'll never need a homeless shelter. She's never going to be placed on a mixed sex public hospital ward. I'd be astounded if she's been in a high street changing room since childhood"

JK really went in on her basically saying that because of her privilege she's ignorant...I think there's many other ways to say that with out sounding hateful there.

She had the perfect opportunity here to rise above it be and be the bigger person etc, but she's obviously allowed to feel how she does..

Just saying there was probably a better way to respond.
DarthOmega
DarthOmega - 9/30/2025, 2:31 PM
@UnderBelly - Sorry, that doesn't sound like hate. "Hate" That word has been thrown around so recklessly in recent years.

Perfect opportunity to rise above it? That's what she's been doing for years, even trying to leave Emma out of it. Imagine getting death, rape, and torture threats constantly and having someone with Emma's massive reach putting gas on the flames, and only now, years later, when people are seeing massive holes in that ideology you want to play nice. Nah. J.K Rowling's words were much nicer than they should've been.
UnderBelly
UnderBelly - 9/30/2025, 2:51 PM
@DarthOmega - I mostly agree with her response, its just that past where she goes on about Emma having little experience of real life, seemed a bit much.

I agree with what Rowling is championing, dont get me wrong, BUT I think that with her being the elder and the one being on the receiving end of alot of hate for quite some time would have influenced a better outcome and used the opportunity to give a more measured response than just bashing her right back.. but thats just my opinion. I respect yours.
Ryguy88
Ryguy88 - 9/30/2025, 2:59 PM
@UnderBelly - its not hate plus hate, its just the truth.
SCOTTHZ972
SCOTTHZ972 - 9/30/2025, 1:37 PM
I can hear the Mortal Kombat words now coming from JKR.....FINISH HIM..her..wait..him...it!
ModHaterSLADE
ModHaterSLADE - 9/30/2025, 1:37 PM
OUCH! Rowling with the shots fired.
TheHummus
TheHummus - 9/30/2025, 1:41 PM
I think at this point Emma and Rowling should talk like effing adults with one another privately and just stfu. I’m really over the rage-bait.

Also I’d prefer Rowling writing other books rather than ranting all the damn time. Annoying to read but alas it’s a CBM article which sometimes wants these responses. Why am I contributing to this madness?!? Gaaaaah!
Playstationdemo
Playstationdemo - 9/30/2025, 1:43 PM
Pointless beef

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HistoryofMatt
HistoryofMatt - 9/30/2025, 1:55 PM
@UnderBelly - If you think that is Rowling "hating" Emma Watson, and instead giving that spoiled adult the spanking she richly deserves (spanking being an act of love as all discipline is), you seriously don't know what you're talking about and should not procreate.
UnderBelly
UnderBelly - 9/30/2025, 2:00 PM
@HistoryofMatt - You're kind of making my point... we're allowed to have individual opinions and change our mind with time an education...doesnt mean you need to continue to be hateful about those you disagree with in saying things like "you shouldn't procreate" with someone who doesnt share the same opinion.

But youre not here to properly debate, So good day to you.
HistoryofMatt
HistoryofMatt - 9/30/2025, 2:07 PM
@UnderBelly - You keep using that word hate, yet you have shown no actual ability to know what it means.

Nothing Rowling said was hateful. At all. That you think it is, is the problem here. It is NEVER hateful to speak the truth. It is never hateful to provide a correction to someone else's bad, spoiled behavior. The things Emma Watson said and did to JK Rowling were hateful. She tacitly encouraged the death threats and worse that Rowling received because she didn't want to get kicked off from the "cool kids" table. She worked to undermine legal protections for women knowing she would never have to suffer the consequences of her actions because her wealth shields her from it.

If you continue to persist in saying this was a "hateful" act by Rowling when the truth is she was extremely restrained and instead provided the verbal spanking that Emma Watson richly deserved when it could have been so much worse, then there is no reason for us to continue this conversation.
HashTagSwagg
HashTagSwagg - 9/30/2025, 1:45 PM
Let her have it JK
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abd00bie
abd00bie - 9/30/2025, 1:47 PM
Watson go film a new movie, Rowling go write a new book. Both should stfu
Oberlin4Prez
Oberlin4Prez - 9/30/2025, 1:48 PM
She’s not wrong. Emma is beginning to understand what time it is, but rather than have the conversation with JK directly she chooses the most indirect ways of going about it to save face. In the process she still gets slammed by the same people who claim to be tolerant.
Titan417
Titan417 - 9/30/2025, 1:52 PM
I stand with JK Rowland.
Clintthahamster
Clintthahamster - 9/30/2025, 2:40 PM
@Titan417 - Who's that?
regularmovieguy
regularmovieguy - 9/30/2025, 1:53 PM
Cassidy used to be the only contributor worth reading on this site but Jesus Christ - why is this even being talked or written about on CBM? Slow news day? Clickbait to rile up your users?

This site [frick]ing blows, lmao. Y'all lost the plot.
regularmovieguy
regularmovieguy - 9/30/2025, 1:59 PM
Dude can’t even write a review any more.
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 9/30/2025, 1:54 PM
I'm usually agreeing with JK on this subject, but I find this quote to be hard to get behind.

Emma may not have ever had to experience these things, but that doesn't invalidate her opinion.

Its like when people get all butt-hurt when someone says they hated a movie and they're response is "Well what movies have YOU made?"

It doesn't matter. We all form opinions about things we've never personally experienced. We do it all the time.
Apophis71
Apophis71 - 9/30/2025, 2:49 PM
@CorndogBurglar - Neither did JK prior to becoming mega rich, and she is far more wealthy than Watson now (1.2 billion V 85 million). The whole mixed bathroom stuff wasn't even being talked about 20yrs ago and is a dumb argument anyway as there was NEVER any law regarding men in female toilers or vice versa but any man abusing anyone in a female bathroom would be charged accordingly, same if female or trans abuser (MANY MANY cases of cisgender men following females into toilets in order to abuse them, no change in laws, and non I ever heard of with the perp being a transwoman in the UK up until 2023).

It SHOULD be suffice that anyone using toilets for anything other than their intended use is charged according to their actions, if more safety needed install alarms in ALL toilets not just disabled ones as zero way to enforce a law barring transwomen from using female toilets on appearance alone (esp as almost no toilets have attendants anymore).

Same with mixed gender wards which were phased out completely with Nightingails in the 90's and incredibly rare and only in emergency scenarios prior (normaly using sidewards of dividing the nightingale ward in two) but Watson would face as much odds being on any given ward as JK Rowling would over the last two decades. Again, prior to that trans surgery was incredibly rare in the UK and doubly so any being place on a ward not in allignment with birth sex, just DIDN'T happen as far I was aware and I worked in healthcare from the 80's onwards (if it did it was private hospitals where it was all single person rooms not 'wards').

I hadn't heard of a single case of a transwoman in a female jail until the last few years and the first I knew of in the UK was held in multiple male ones not female even after surgery in 2013 (which didn't remove genitals, she did that to herself a few years after that whilst STILL in a male prison and remained in a male prison after that). In total I only know of only about five Transwomen in female jails in the UK and those were all recent I read about them, not when Rowling was an unknown 'poor' writer and only a single case that was deffo all kinds of wrong as went on to abuse other inmates (whilst MANY, MANY cases of female guards or cisgender female inmates sexualy abusing women in female prisons making THAT a far bigger and more common issue). Now there is a fair nuanced debate to be had on jails, as in are they post or pre-op and/or seperated from the rest of prisoners etc but JK knows nothing about being in jail anymore than Emma does as NEITHER has ever done any jail time.
Ryguy88
Ryguy88 - 9/30/2025, 3:01 PM
@CorndogBurglar - I think Matt summarized the situation quite well above. Full context is very important on this one.
HeavyMetal4Life
HeavyMetal4Life - 9/30/2025, 1:57 PM
Rowling reaffirming how much of an insufferable POS she is. She seems like a triggered snowflake who has gotten drunk on too much of the rage-bait brainwashing kool aid.
mountainman
mountainman - 9/30/2025, 2:00 PM
@HeavyMetal4Life - She is objectively right on this issue and a vast majority of your fellow humans agree with her. Dont go shooting people who are on the right side of this issue now.
DarthOmega
DarthOmega - 9/30/2025, 2:36 PM
@HeavyMetal4Life - A woman doesn't want to share her personal space with males. Gets death, rape, and torture threats. Has former friends bash her in the media when the worst of the threats happen. Writes her feelings on the matter.

You - She's an insufferable piece of shit.

I honestly don't think there is any way around this insanity anymore.

Getting rape and death threats as a woman might make her "triggered" there is nothing wrong with that.
harryba11zack
harryba11zack - 9/30/2025, 1:57 PM

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mountainman
mountainman - 9/30/2025, 1:59 PM
It’s really fun to see Hollywood pivot now that they realize that their far left ideology has been rejected by most of humanity. The like and loving thing to do here is to listen to women who don’t want biological men in their spaces. A person can be trans if they want, but forcing women to accept you in their sex-restricted spaces is not ok. This really isn’t complicated and a vast majority of humanity feels this way.
UnderBelly
UnderBelly - 9/30/2025, 2:09 PM
@mountainman - Jk's not wrong in her view, but i think there was a better way to respond to Watson..

Instead the response comes across like "well she bashed me for so many years, im going to just bash her back"

Whereas Emma was asked on the topic, she didn't bring it up herself, and seem a bit more mature this time. Not saying Emma doesnt deserve the hate, but i think JK could have come from a different angle. I dont know what that could have looked like, but there must be a better way.
HistoryofMatt
HistoryofMatt - 9/30/2025, 2:10 PM
@mountainman - Be careful Mountainman, believe in such rational, logical things like men can't be women and men should never be allowed in women's private spaces or fields of sport will have Joshy-poo calling you an "incel."
mountainman
mountainman - 9/30/2025, 2:28 PM
@UnderBelly - I actually agree that Watson’s recent comments were not bad at all. It’s really what she should have been saying the whole time. In this microcosm of an exchange, Watson was being more polite than Rowling was. +1 to her. She has a lot of points to catch up in the overall situation though. I was just saying that Rowling is correct overall in her view that female only spaces should be free from people who have penises. I think at this point many of us that have been correct on this very basic issue for years are just tired of trying to be nice and engage in dialog around it. The other side of the issue has been calling people terrible names that are unjustified for years and are now inspiring people to violence. They need to tone down their rhetoric consistently over a long period of time then we can return to respectful dialog.
mountainman
mountainman - 9/30/2025, 2:31 PM
@HistoryofMatt -
1. Josh blocked me a long time ago
2. The insults used by these radical left wingers don’t matter any more
3. The time for respectful dialog is in the past. We tried that for many years, suffered their morning insults, cancelation attempts, government mandated free speech violations online, and even violent attacks on peaceful people. Anyone who believes that someone with male anatomy should be allowed in female spaces just needs to be shunned and made fun of publicly until they realize that they have an anti-reality viewpoint not shared by most of humanity.
UnderBelly
UnderBelly - 9/30/2025, 2:31 PM
@mountainman - Agreed.
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