One would think Rowling-bashing had become a redundant activity, one that would make Caesar say ad nauseam, like Marvel sequels, but we still keep getting them every other day. The latest brave Hollywood kid to jump on the anti-Rowling bandwagon is Andrew Garfield, a Spider-Man so amazing he didn’t warrant a trilogy, who finally watched the Harry Potter movies. While praising lead actor Daniel Radcliffe, Garfield, channelling his inner grumpy Garfield, opined that watching Harry Potter is “controversial” because it lines the pockets of “she that shall remain nameless”, whose views supposedly back “inhumane legislation.” That Voldemort-style refusal to say Rowling's name was pure performative theatre.
