The TV special with actors and actresses from popular films about the young magician Harry Potter provoked controversial reviews from critics even before its premiere. Many pointed out the absence of the author of the book, JK Rowling, according to the BBC news website. There is speculation that the writer did not receive an invitation to film because her statements about “transgender people” divide public opinion. Rowling does not appear in the special with the actors and can only be seen in the archive video clips.
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Show Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts will premiere January 1, 2022. Former children’s stars Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter), Emma watson (Hermiona Granger) a Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley) will meet again with their former colleagues Robbie Coltran (Rubeus Hagrid), Helenou Bonham Carter (Bellatrix Lestrange), Jasonem Isaacsem (Lucius Malfoy), Gary Oldman (Sirius Black) a Ralphem Fiennesem (Lord Voldemort).
While some of the actors, such as Coltrane, are about JK Rowling In their interviews, the writer appears in the special only in the 2019 music videos. „Where is JK Rowling when we need her most? ” asks the British newspaper The Telegraph, which gave the special only two out of five stars in its review.
Warner Bros. film studio and HBO streaming company did not justify Rowling’s absence.
Rowling’s absence is crucial
The Times columnist Carol Midgley gave the special four stars. She pointed to the nostalgic shots and the warm relationship between the actors. She emphasized, however, that Rowling’s absence was essential, and added that the former child actors owed much of the writer’s career. According to her, it seems as if young members of the British royal family are having a party at Buckingham Palace, but have not invited the queen.
Ed Power of The Telegraph noted that Rowling only appears in short clips. “Its importance is downplayed.” he noted. “Even a Muggle (in books about the magician’s apprentice Potter, a term for people without the ability to cast a spell – note CTK) would conclude that the lack of time Rowling devoted in this document has something to do with the public criticism she received from the stars of this saga in response to her views on transgender people, “he added.
Rowling criticized the transgender
John Anderson of The Wall Street Journal did not spare reservations either. According to him, the almost two-hour show suffers from a “tone of unrelenting praise”, when “actors caress each other’s egos” and everyone exaggerates the importance of film processing. Anderson also paid tribute to the “remarkable number” of actors who have died since the premiere of the first film. He concluded that Maggie Smith and Julie Walters (Minerva McGonagall and Molly Weasley) did not appear on the show, and concluded that “actresses of this format” did not have the patience for such “nonsense”.
In June 2020, Rowling provoked a wave of criticism for a series of Twitter posts, which, according to human rights activists, were directed against transgender people. In one tweet, for example, she shared and criticized an article that talks about “menstruating people.” Rowling was upset that the authors wrote “people” instead of the word “women” in this context. “I am sure there was a label for such people. Someone tell me, “she wrote.
After much criticism, Rowling published a comprehensive explanation of her views, in which she confided, among other things, that she had faced sexual and domestic violence in her youth. “I know and love transgender people, but deleting the term gender deprives many of them of the opportunity to discuss their lives meaningfully.” she declared. However, Rowling’s essay has provoked further criticism, and some Harry Potter actors have distanced themselves from her remarks, including the famous trio Radcliffe, Watson and Grint.
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