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Harry Potter and the Supreme Court Ruling — will the new cast be tainted by association?

Harry Potter HBO JK Rowling Daniel Radcliffe Nick Frost Paapa Essiedu Rupert Grint Emma Watson Janet McTeer John Lithgow
JK Rowling wrote the Harry Potter novels (Ian West/PA) - (PA Archive)

It’s been a big week for Harry Potter author JK Rowling. The legal campaign she donated £70,000 of her billion-pound fortune to has resulted in a UK Supreme Court ruling on the technicality of what a “women” is under the equalities law. It may have serious implications for how trans women access bathrooms, refuges, and hospital wards, amongst others.

Oh, and some of the cast for the HBO Harry Potter TV show has been announced. John Lithgow as Albus Dumbledore, Janet McTeer as Professor Minerva McGonagall, Nick Frost as Rubeus Hagrid, Paapa Essiedu as Severus Snape, Paul Whitehouse as Argus Filch, and Luke Thallon as Quirinus Quirrell.

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