JK Rowling reveals what actually occurred with Harry Potter particular 'snub'

J.Okay. Rowling has revealed she was not snubbed from the Harry Potter reunion particular earlier this 12 months — saying as a substitute she turned down an invite.

The reunion included the actors from the movie to commemorate the twentieth anniversary for the reason that movies started. Some speculated the writer's controversial tweets precluded her from the present, streamed by HBO Max.

"I used to be requested to be on that and I made a decision — I did not need to be part of it," Rowling stated Saturday in a radio interview with Graham Norton. "So nobody stated do not [attend]. ... I used to be requested to do it, and I made a decision to not."

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"It was concerning the movies, not the books, fairly rightly," the writer stated. "That was what the anniversary was about."

Rowling, 57, did handle her Twitter account, which has usually come below fireplace from transgender rights activists for her feedback on separating ladies assigned feminine at start from transgender ladies.

"I attempt to behave on-line as I would really like others to behave," she stated. "I've by no means threatened anybody."

The writer was referring to the dying risk she acquired following her sympathetic tweet for writer Salman Rushdie, who had not too long ago been attacked on the time. Police finally grew to become concerned in an investigation into the account behind the tweet, and Twitter finally eliminated the tweet.

"Social media may be a number of enjoyable, and I do just like the pub argument facet of it. That may be a enjoyable factor to do, however there is no doubt that social media is a present for those that need to behave," Rowling stated.

Over 500 million copies of the Harry Potter sequence have been bought. Rowling most not too long ago revealed The Ink Black Coronary heart in her pen identify Robert Galbraith in January.