Since 2018, the popularity of JK Rowling, author of the saga Harry Potter, saw his popularity ratings shaken, after his controversial positions on transidentity. Three years later, the writer, who has regularly shared her positions on many and varied social issues, is no longer unanimous, even with certain actors in the films adapted from her works. But a voice was raised to support it, and not just any voice: that of Voldemort, or more precisely of the actor who plays him in the cinema, Ralph Fiennes.
The 59-year-old British comedian is fed up with the attacks received by JK Rowling. He thus stands out from some of his peers like Emma “Hermione” Watson and Daniel “Harry” Radcliffe who had rebelled on what they described as transphobic remarks on the part of the writer.
The one who played The English Patient thus explained to New York Times : “The verbal attacks she receives disgust me, it’s shocking. I can understand being angry about what she says about women. But these are not obscene, fascist and far-right lyrics. It’s just a woman saying, ‘I’m a woman and I feel like I’m a woman, I have the right to say I’m a woman.’ And I understand what she means, even though I’m not a woman myself.”
Then, Ralph Fiennes wanted to pay tribute to all that JK Rowling brought through his work: “She wrote these awesome books, about self-confidence, about young kids finding who they want to be as humans. His books are about becoming a better person, a human being with better values.“
Severe opinion and violent attacks
In 2020, JK Rowling, very active on Twitter, shocked by protesting that we could use the expression “people who have their rule” in an article. She had thus written with irony:I’m sure there was an expression for these people before.” A remark which was then considered transphobic and earned her numerous criticisms, more or less violent. The affair took on such proportions that she did not participate in the documentary which celebrated the 20th anniversary of the saga. At the movie theater.
The wealthy woman of letters had also received the support of an actor from the young generation of Harry Potterr, Tom Felton, aka Slytherin Draco Malfoy. On Radio 4, he thus had the fantastic universe born from the pen of JK Rowling, which brought together so many people from all over the world, young and old: “All this comes from one and the same person and for that I am very grateful to him.”