Backlash against a new Harry Potter-themed attraction in Stanley Park has one Park Board commissioner looking into cancelling the contract.

“I have learned a great deal in the last five days about the linkage of the Harry Potter franchise with J.K. Rowling and I am very surprised at what I’ve learned and I was not aware of the reputational risk of bringing a Harry Potter-themed event to Vancouver at the time that I approved this in camera,” Tom Digby told Global News.

“Now I’m just speaking as one Park Board commissioner, one out of seven, that I do not speak on behalf of the Park Board. But, I can say, I myself was not aware of the reputational risk that this would bring.”

In recent years, Rowling has come under fire for her outspoken views on transgender rights . (In 2020, Ro

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