Famed Harry Potter writer J.Ok. Rowling stated she’s not nervous about shedding followers due to her hefty stacks of money.
Rowling — who has been repeatedly known as out for making what many imagine to be anti-trans remarks — shot again at a Twitter consumer who criticized her Thursday by citing her fortune from the Harry Potter franchise.
“How do you sleep at night time figuring out you’ve misplaced an entire viewers from shopping for your books?” the individual tweeted on the writer.
Rowling signaled that she has no points with insomnia.
“I learn my most up-to-date royalty cheques and discover the ache goes away fairly shortly,” she stated in a scorching comeback.
Rowling’s web value has been estimated to vary from $650 million to $1.2 billion, in accordance with Business Insider.
Followers rallied behind Rowling’s comeback.
“JK Savage,” writer Matthew Loop responded.
Many have been fast to assist Rowling within the feedback, stating the influence the Harry Potter sequence had on them, their youngsters or their college students as younger readers.
“I used to be a faculty governor within the mid 2000’s getting boys to learn was a MASSIVE pedagogical subject to which there was no resolution after which alongside got here the great @jk_rowling,” one other consumer tweeted. “It’s laborious to magnify that impact.”

Others, nevertheless, have been unable to look previous the writer’s alleged transphobia.
“You singled out and vilified an especially weak minority group,” journalist Walker Bragman tweeted in a reply. “I can’t assist however take into consideration children who’re battling their id and simply need acceptance. You, along with your huge platform, have made it tougher for them. And that sucks.”
Rowling’s scandal with the trans neighborhood dates again to 2020 when she tweeted about sexes.
“If intercourse isn’t actual, there’s no same-sex attraction,” she tweeted in June 2020, sparking the preliminary backlash. “If intercourse isn’t actual, the lived actuality of girls globally is erased. I do know and love trans individuals, however erasing the idea of intercourse removes the flexibility of many to meaningfully talk about 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 stars of the “Harry Potter” motion pictures have even distanced themselves from her feedback.