If you’ve watched the Harry Potter special on Salto, then you know book author JK Rowling isn’t one of the guests. A decision that its representatives tried to explain.
With Harry Potter: Return to Hogwarts, which SALTO is offering exclusively to its subscribers as of today, fans have the great pleasure of finding part of the cast of the magical saga on the screen. Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint are back for this touching reunion.And if you were expecting to see JK Rowling among the guests, you missed it. The British author appears in only a few shots, more precisely in archive images dating … from 2019.
The absence of JK Rowling from the guest list has been at the heart of all the rumors in recent weeks. It must be said that she had attracted the wrath of fans by publishing several tweets deemed transphobic, in which she affirms in particular that trans women are not women. An exit from the road condemned by the interpreters of Harry and Hermione. Suffice to say that relations were more than strained between part of the cast and the author of the saga …
Today its representatives wanted to speak in the media, to rectify the situation. According to Entertainment Weekly, the one that the actors call “Jo” received an invitation from Warner, that his team preferred to decline, specifying that it had nothing to do with the said controversy. To make up for her absence, she would have sent these famous archive images to the studios …