![]() ![]() Rowling, who featured in the HBO Max 20th anniversary “Harry Potter” reunion special only passingly, has been a fixture of controversy in the last couple of years due to the anti-trans comments she has repeatedly made on Twitter. “And everybody was just like, ‘Wizards.’ It was so weird.” “It was one of those things where I saw it on the screen and I was expecting the crowd to be like, ‘Holy shit, did not, in a wizarding world, just throw Jews in there to run the fucking underground bank,” Stewart continued. But what if the teeth were sharper?” ( Via Variety.)Ī “Harry Potter” wiki describes the goblins as skilled with “money and finances.” ![]() ![]() Rowling was like, ‘Can we get these guys to run our bank?’ It’s a wizarding world … we can ride dragons, you can have a pet owl … but who should run the bank? Jews. “Talking to people, here’s what I say: Have you ever seen a ‘Harry Potter’ movie? Have you ever seen the scenes in Gringotts Bank? Do you know what those folks who run the bank are? Jews! And they’re like, ‘Oh, from ‘Harry Potter’! And you’re like, ‘No, that’s a caricature of a Jew from an anti-Semitic piece of literature.’” “Here’s how you know Jews are still where they are,” Stewart said on the episode. Rowling’s Transphobia: ‘That’s a Very Online Conversation’ ![]()
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