J.K. Rowling has delivered one of her most stinging public replies, tearing into Emma Watson after the actor spoke about their relationship despite long-standing differences over transgender rights.

In a sprawling post on X, Rowling said she was exhausted by Watson and fellow Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe using their Potter connection to criticise her views.

“Emma and Dan in particular have both made it clear over the last few years that they think our former professional association gives them a particular right, nay, obligation, to critique me and my views in public,” Rowling wrote.

She accused Watson of being 'ignorant of real life' because of her fame and privilege, contrasting her own poverty while writing the first Potter book with Watson’s sheltered celebrity life. Rowling a

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