Famed Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling said she’s not frightened about losing fans due to her hefty stacks of money.
Rowling — who has been repeatedly called out for making what many imagine to be anti-trans remarks — shot back at a Twitter user who criticized her Thursday by citing her fortune from the Harry Potter franchise.
“How do you sleep at night knowing you’ve lost an entire audience from buying your books?” the person tweeted on the creator.
Rowling signaled that she has no issues with insomnia.
“I read my most up-to-date royalty cheques and find the pain goes away pretty quickly,” she said in a sizzling comeback.
Rowling’s net price has been estimated to range from $650 million to $1.2 billion, based on Business Insider.
Fans rallied behind Rowling’s comeback.
“JK Savage,” creator Matthew Loop responded.
Many were quick to support Rowling within the comments, stating the impact the Harry Potter series had on them, their children or their students as young readers.
“I used to be a college governor within the mid 2000’s getting boys to read was a MASSIVE pedagogical issue to which there was no solution after which along got here the wonderful @jk_rowling,” one other user tweeted. “It is tough to exaggerate that effect.”
Others, nonetheless, were unable to look past the creator’s alleged transphobia.
“You singled out and vilified an especially vulnerable minority group,” journalist Walker Bragman tweeted in a reply. “I can’t help but take into consideration kids who’re scuffling with their identity and just want acceptance. You, together with your massive platform, have made it harder for them. And that sucks.”
Rowling’s scandal with the trans community dates back to 2020 when she tweeted about sexes.
“If sex isn’t real, there’s no same-sex attraction,” she tweeted in June 2020, sparking the initial backlash. “If sex isn’t real, the lived reality of girls globally is erased. I do know and love trans people, but erasing the concept of sex removes the flexibility of many to meaningfully discuss their lives. It isn’t hate to talk the reality.”
Rowley has been labeled a TERF, an acronym for “trans-exclusionary” radical feminist, by critics for her beliefs and has faced death threats since her remarks.
Lots of the celebrities of the “Harry Potter” movies have even distanced themselves from her comments.
