The "Harry Potter" author rebuffed Watson's recent well wishes, saying the actor who played Hermione has "enthusiastically participated" in the "trashing of women's rights."

J.K. Rowling has thoughts about 'Harry Potter' veteran Emma Watson and their fallout over transgender rights: She's privileged and 'ignorant of how ignorant she is.'

Amid the backlash, Ralph Fiennes and Helena Bonham Carter, who played Voldemort and Bellatrix Lestrange, defended Rowling without expressing support for her views. Fiennes decried the "verbal abuse" directed at Rowling as "disgusting" and "appalling," while Bonham Carter said Rowling has been "hounded."

J.K. Rowling is weighing in after park officials in Canada publicly apologized for approving a local Harry Potter-themed event.

Rowling’s years-long tension with Watson and Radcliffe involve her anti-trans comments. Get a breakdown of the full feud here.

Gay comedian Bowen Yang portrayed Dobby the House Elf — the anxious and self-abusing servant from J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter fantasy book series — while discussing Rowling’s transphobic politics on a recent installment of Saturday Night Live’s satirical Weekly Update news program.