Image Credit: David M. Benett J.K Rowling has been in a feud with the cast of Harry Potter for years - specifically its stars Emma Watson and Daniel Radcliffe - over the author's comments about the transgender community. Recently, Rowling shared a lengthy response to Watson's September 2025 Jay Shetty podcast interview, in which she was asked about her distant relationship with the wizarding world mastermind. "Emma Watson and her co-stars have every right to embrace gender identity ideology.