Mlicett

“Words are —in my most humble opinion— our most inexhaustible source of Magic” APWBD. *you see what you look for

[Mlicett @Mlicett]

Because I love so loudly and so fiercely that you will look for me in everything you cross paths with for the rest of your days on this earth

[Mlicett @Mlicett]

Hurt people, hurt people. Read that again

[Mlicett @Mlicett]

It’s the everywhere he isn’t. Which is, everywhere

[Mlicett @Mlicett]

Neither of us would call, but both of us would answer

[Mlicett @Mlicett]

You are the most enough I have ever met

[Mlicett @Mlicett]

The mortifying ordeal of being known

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

If you're the mother who was reading Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone aloud to your child on the LNER train from London to Edinburgh yesterday, one of my grown up children was listening and says you did the voices brilliantly❤️🥹

[Mlicett @Mlicett]

No seduzca ni convenza. Comunique

[Mlicett @Mlicett]

I will always always miss you.

[Mlicett @Mlicett]

That which is to be, has already been

[Mlicett @Mlicett]

@piersmorgan Yes.

[Mlicett @Mlicett]

Be here. Feel it all. Remember this

[Mlicett @Mlicett]

I am freezing and bored of you not being around

[Mlicett @Mlicett]

Nostalgia is a mind’s trick.

[Mlicett @Mlicett]

🩶 acceptance is healing.

[Mlicett @Mlicett]

She lost the plot

[Freyy @Freyy_is]

i finally did it: someone was talking on the phone with loud speaker sitting close to me while we were inside the bus.

so I joined the conversation with full confidence. when she gave me that “are you mad?” look, I said, “sorry,I thought it was a group call since you put it on loudspeaker for all of us.”

she quietly told the person, “I’ll call you back,” and ended the call immediately. 🙂

[Mlicett @Mlicett]

You saved me from love driving me mad

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

@jk_rowling "I lived in poverty while writing the book that made Emma famous."

This wrecked me.

Every single part of this is so beautifully written. I'm so sorry you had to stand alone.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

@noelorand She could have contacted me privately any time to say her views had changed, if they have. I'd have been entirely supportive. What she's chosen to do instead is yet another bit of public brand repositioning, without talking to me, but using me for her purpose. It's getting old.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

I'm seeing quite a bit of comment about this, so I want to make a couple of points.

I'm not owed eternal agreement from any actor who once played a character I created. The idea is as ludicrous as me checking with the boss I had when I was twenty-one for what opinions I should hold these days.

Emma Watson and her co-stars have every right to embrace gender identity ideology. Such beliefs are legally protected, and I wouldn't want to see any of them threatened with loss of work, or violence, or death, because of them.

However, 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. Years after they finished acting in Potter, they continue to assume the role of de facto spokespeople for the world I created.

When you've known people since they were ten years old it's hard to shake a certain protectiveness. Until quite recently, I hadn't managed to throw off the memory of children who needed to be gently coaxed through their dialogue in a big scary film studio. For the past few years, I've repeatedly declined invitations from journalists to comment on Emma specifically, most notably on the Witch Trials of JK Rowling. Ironically, I told the producers that I didn't want her to be hounded as the result of anything I said.

The television presenter in the attached clip highlights Emma's 'all witches' speech, and in truth, that was a turning point for me, but it had a postscript that hurt far more than the speech itself. Emma asked someone to pass on a handwritten note from her to me, which contained the single sentence 'I'm so sorry for what you're going through' (she has my phone number). This was back when the death, rape and torture threats against me were at their peak, at a time when my personal security measures had had to be tightened considerably and I was constantly worried for my family's safety. Emma had just publicly poured more petrol on the flames, yet thought a one line expression of concern from her would reassure me of her fundamental sympathy and kindness.

Like other people who've never experienced adult life uncushioned by wealth and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life she's ignorant of how ignorant she is. She'll never need a homeless shelter. She's never going to be placed on a mixed sex public hospital ward. I'd be astounded if she's been in a high street changing room since childhood. Her 'public bathroom' is single occupancy and comes with a security man standing guard outside the door. Has she had to strip off in a newly mixed-sex changing room at a council-run swimming pool? Is she ever likely to need a state-run rape crisis centre that refuses to guarantee an all-female service? To find herself sharing a prison cell with a male rapist who's identified into the women's prison?

I wasn't a multimillionaire at fourteen. I lived in poverty while writing the book that made Emma famous. I therefore understand from my own life experience what the trashing of women's rights in which Emma has so enthusiastically participated means to women and girls without her privileges.

The greatest irony here is that, had Emma not decided in her most recent interview to declare that she loves and treasures me - a change of tack I suspect she's adopted because she's noticed full-throated condemnation of me is no longer quite as fashionable as it was - I might never have been this honest.

Adults can't expect to cosy up to an activist movement that regularly calls for a friend's assassination, then assert their right to the former friend's love, as though the friend was in fact their mother. Emma is rightly free to disagree with me and indeed to discuss her feelings about me in public - but I have the same right, and I've finally decided to exercise it.