Last month, JK Rowling made it clear she would never forgive Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson for throwing her under the bus over her views on transgenderism, especially following the recent Cass Review which vindicated her position that it’s important to maintain the distinction between women and trans women, and for the NHS and gender identity clinics to be more thorough when treating under 18s who believe they are transgender.

JK Rowling had Tweeted the following when someone suggested that Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson should apologise to the Harry Potter creator:

Not safe, I’m afraid. Celebs who cosied up to a movement intent on eroding women’s hard-won rights and who used their platforms to cheer on the transitioning of minors can save their apologies for traumatised detransitioners and vulnerable women reliant on single sex spaces.

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) April 10, 2024

Of course, in Radcliffe’s case, she is referring to this statement he put out when she was already dealing with backlash over her views:

Daniel Radcliffe has now finally addressed the situation, telling The Atlantic this week that the entire saga ‘makes him really sad’:

“It makes me really sad, ultimately, because I do look at the person that I met, the times that we met, and the books that she wrote, and the world that she created, and all of that is to me so deeply empathic.

“Jo, obviously Harry Potter would not have happened without her, so nothing in my life would have probably happened the way it is without that person.

“But that doesn’t mean that you owe the things you truly believe to someone else for your entire life.”

Well, I suppose that’s fair enough. Daniel Radcliffe is entitled to his opinion on the matter, even if you might suspect it has more to do with keeping his own career in tact rather than being a topic he really cares about one way or another.

Still, it would have been nice of him to also condemn some of the shocking abuse and messages that were/are being sent JK Rowling’s way over the whole controversy. Like he says himself in that quote – he would be nothing without her! Fair play to him for acknowledging that, at least.

For the time JK Rowling annihilated a Harry Potter fan who asked why Dumbledore is gay, click HERE