This isn't an easy piece to write, for reasons that will shortly become clear, but I know it's time to explain myself on an issue surrounded by toxicity. The house will instead be named after fellow children's author and Children's Laureate Malorie Blackman because the school said she 'fits the bill as an excellent replacement for a modern-day female author.'Įlsewhere yesterday, Miss Watson, and fellow Harry Potter star Bonnie Wright, who plays Ginny Weasley in the film franchise, have been accused of 'callousness' and 'biting the hand that fed' them after choosing to criticise Ms Rowling just hours after the author opened up on her past. In West Sussex, bosses at the Weald Community School told parents in a letter that they were dropping plans to name a house after Ms Rowling because they 'do not wish to be associated' with her views. In the piece, Ms Rowling said she refused to 'bow down to a movement that I believe is doing demonstrable harm in seeking to erode 'woman' as a political and biological class and offering cover to predators like few before it'.

Leaders at the school in Billingshurst, West Sussex, pictured, said they 'do not wish to be associated' with the author's views JKR's statement is terrible… I am so disappointed. 'Suffering doesn't allow you to harm others. 'My deep grief for what she went through personally is wholly apart from how terrible she's being to others right now,' the Telegraph reports her saying. Ms Anelli, who describes herself as webmistress of the page Ms Rowling once described as 'my favourite fan site', said she was 'heartbroken' to read the essay. Ms Rowling responded to criticism earlier this week in a 3,663 word essay posted on her personal website, in which she also revealed she was sexually assaulted in her 20s and told of her scars of domestic violence from her first marriage. That post said: 'STOP GIVING HER MONEY: don't buy new books, don't buy official merch, don't see the play, don't rent or buy the movies, don't see the movies in theaters, don't go to the theme park. We give zero dollars to transphobes.' Melissa Anelli, pictured left, editor of the world's biggest Harry Potter fan site, has urged supporters to stop buying JK Rowling's books and watching her films as the 'transphobia' row surrounding the author, pictured right, rumbles on

Harry, a History by Melissa Anelli