@MrsWooster
Alright, I’ll bite:
“I don't get all the ''spoiled brats! '' comments. They're now grown adults, possibly even early thirties? With minds of their own. They're not kids, but people on here talk about them like they are. Why should they stand by and not say anything if they hear what they perceive to be bigoted views?”
They are fully entitled to their views on JKR. They are not entitled to watch these views encourage multiple rape and death threats to JKR, without ANY condemnation and then creep back a year later and pocket £100,000s of money courtesy of her work
And courtesy of the work of countless others - screenwriters, directors, everyone involved in film making - and of course, their own work. Should they not celebrate years of their life and work they did? Or do we think all filmmaking is solely the work of the creator's original ideas, and nobody else's contribution is worth anything, and therefore if they don't agree with her on something unrelated to that project they should renounce their own emotional (or financial!) stake in it?
Also, not a single one of them has said anything negative about JKR in public. They've said they were enormously grateful for the HP franchise giving them their acting break, but that they disagreed with her. Any threats of violence are not on them, nor were they made in their names.
I understand that for those who agree wholeheartedly with Rowling, it's disappointing for you to see the lead actors of films of her work disagree publicly. You think their views are wrong, fine, I understand that.
But acting as though they owe her a lifelong debt of solidarity and agreement, and to demand they be on call to publicly condemn any negativity she faces from anyone (when it was nothing to do with them whatsoever) is odd.
If... I don't know, Stephenie Meyer came out and said, "I don't think we should have balloons at birthday parties", and it happened to be a big global topic where lots of people had very strong feelings about it, and Robert Pattinson said to the press "I'm grateful for my work on Twilight, but I disagree with Stephenie's views" and then some rabid balloon fans were awful to Stephenie, he's under no obligation to call that out. Nor is he ungrateful for saying he disagreed. Nor would his work on the Twilight films be any less his own, nor would he be obligated to pretend a chunk of his past work no longer existed and stop talking about it or profiting from it. He still did the work.
(A terrible example because he absolutely hated the Twilight films 😅 but my point stands - whether they were calculatedly toeing a public line they believed best for their career or passionately standing up for what they believe in or whatever isn't really relevant. They don't owe her agreement, they don't owe her their dissociation from their previous work because she was the original writer, and nor are they responsible for what others who happen to share some of the same views as them do.)