J.K. Rowling has revealed she was not snubbed from the Harry Potter reunion special earlier this year — saying instead she turned down an invitation.
The reunion included the actors from the film to commemorate the 20th anniversary since the films began. Some speculated the author’s controversial tweets precluded her from the show, streamed by HBO Max.
“I was asked to be on that and I decided — I didn’t want to be a part of it,” Rowling said Saturday in a radio interview with Graham Norton. “So no one said don’t [attend]. … I was asked to do it, and I decided not to.”
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“It was about the films, not the books, quite rightly,” the author said. “That was what the anniversary was about.”
Rowling, 57, did address her Twitter account, which has often come under fire from transgender rights activists for her comments on separating women assigned female at birth from transgender women.
“I try to behave online as I would like others to behave,” she said. “I’ve never threatened anyone.”
The author was referring to the death threat she received following her sympathetic tweet for author Salman Rushdie, who had recently been attacked at the time. Police eventually became involved in an investigation into the account behind the tweet, and Twitter ultimately removed the tweet.
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“Social media can be a lot of fun, and I do like the pub argument aspect of it. That can be a fun thing to do, but there’s no doubt that social media is a gift for people that want to behave,” Rowling said.
Over 500 million copies of the Harry Potter series have been sold. Rowling most recently published The Ink Black Heart in her pen name Robert Galbraith in January.
