J.K. Rowling slams ‘ignorant’ Emma Watson amid years-long feud over trans rights

J.K. Rowling is not willing to accept “ignorant” Emma Watson’s olive branch after years of feuding over the rights of the transgender community.

Both Watson and her “Harry Potter” co-star Daniel Radcliffe have publicly criticized the “Harry Potter” author’s anti-trans views, but the actress recently softened her stance and said she hoped she and Rowling could come to some sort of understanding.

Rowling, 60, scoffed at the attempt at making amends in a lengthy — and scathing — statement shared via X on Monday.

“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,” she began, acknowledging that Watson, 35, and Radcliffe, 36, “have every right to embrace gender identity ideology.”

“However,” she continued, “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.”

Rowling admitted that it’s “hard to shake certain perspectives” when “you’ve known people since they were ten years old,” confessing that — “until quite recently” — she found it difficult to “throw off the memory of children who needed to be gently coaxed through their dialogue in a big scary film studio.”

The author — who experienced poverty for several years before the success of her “Harry Potter” books, which were made into movies and made her a billionaire — then claimed that Watson “has so little experience of real life [that] she’s ignorant of how ignorant she is.”

Rowling noted that the actress will “never need a homeless shelter” and is “never going to be placed on a mixed sex public hospital ward” before pointing out that “her ‘public bathroom’ is single occupancy and comes with a security man standing guard outside the door.”

The author went on to ask rhetorical questions: “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?”

Rowling wrote that she “wasn’t a millionaire at fourteen.” Instead, she “lived in poverty while writing the book that made Emma famous.”

She referred to Watson’s support of the trans community as “the trashing of women’s rights,” which she argued affects “women and girls without her privileges.”

Rowling then turned her sights to Watson’s recent appearance on the “On Purpose” podcast, during which the actress told host Jay Shetty, “I really don’t believe that by having had that experience [in ‘Harry Potter’] and holding the love and support and views that I have, means that I can’t and don’t treasure [Rowling] and the person that I had personal experiences with.”

Rowling called the comments ironic and opined that the “change of tack” is because Watson “noticed full-throated condemnation of [Rowling] is no longer quite as fashionable as it was.”

The author concluded her rant, “Adults can’t expect to [cozy] 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.”

Last April, Rowling vowed that she would never forgive Watson or Radcliffe for condemning her beliefs.

Reps for Watson and Radcliffe did not immediately respond to Page Six’s requests for comment.