Harry Potter author JK Rowling has been the subject of vicious hate campaigns on social media from critics who accuse her of transphobia.Credit:Getty
“I do not walk around my house thinking about my legacy,” she said.
“What a pompous way to live your life,walking around thinking,‘What will my legacy be?’ Whatever. I’ll be dead. I care about now,I care about living.”
In the new podcast,The Witch Trials of JK Rowling,the writer talks about freedom of speech and critical thinking.
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She said:“There is a huge appeal,and I try to show this in the Potter books,to black and white thinking.
“It’s the easiest place to be,and in many ways,it’s the safest place to be. If you take an all-or-nothing position on anything,you will definitely find comrades,you will easily find a community.
“What I’ve tried to show in the Potter books,and what I feel strongly myself,is that we should mistrust ourselves most when we are certain.”