All eight Harry Potter films hit the top 10 most watched Netflix charts just days after being added to the streaming platform, despite trans activists demanding a boycott of JK Rowling’s work
- Movies first available on Netflix UK and Netflix Ireland on May 17
Trans activists demanded a boycott of JK Rowling’s work – yet the films based on her hugely successful books remain popular.
All eight of the Harry Potter film adaptations are in the top ten most watched Netflix charts – just days after being added to the streaming platform.
The films were first made available on Netflix UK and Netflix Ireland on May 17.
Yesterday, the first in the franchise, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, topped the weekly chart.
The films even took six out of ten spots, and Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald – an episode of the Rowlings Potter spin-off – also secured a spot.
Trans activists demanded a boycott of JK Rowling’s (pictured) work – yet the films based on her hugely successful books remain as popular as ever
All eight Harry Potter film adaptations are in the top ten most watched Netflix charts – just days after they were added to the streaming platform on May 17
Yesterday, the first in the franchise, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (pictured), topped the weekly chart
“No matter how hard some people try to make everyone hate JK Rowling, it’s not working,” one fan said on Twitter. Another wrote, “You just can’t stop a good woman.”
“We watch on Netflix and of the top ten movies in the UK today 1,2,3,5,6 8 & 9 are Harry Potter or Fantastic Beasts. No matter how hard some people try to make everyone hate JK Rowling, it doesn’t work,” one person wrote on Twitter.
Another wrote: ‘Whether it’s shaming the kids for playing the game, burning the books, trying to make the TV adaptation ‘unacceptable’ or ‘claiming’ the cast of the films as their property, it all doesn’t work. You just can’t stop a good woman.”
The author has been threatened with death since 2020 after speaking out for women’s rights in the transgender debate.
She later published an essay on her website arguing that biological sex is real and shared her views on gender neutral spaces, saying she placed great importance on protecting women’s rights as she was a survivor of domestic violence and sexual assault .
Last year she vehemently opposed Scotland’s gender recognition reform law, claiming it would ‘harm the most vulnerable women’.
Last month, Ms Rowling was appointed executive producer for the newly announced ‘decade long’ Potter TV series, which will be based on all seven books.
It will feature a new cast and be “authentic to the original books” to “bring Harry Potter and these incredible adventures to new audiences around the world.”
Ms Rowling’s involvement led to calls for a boycott.
She responded on Twitter, writing, “Terrible news, which I feel compelled to share,” she wrote. Activists I mention are trying to organize another boycott of my work, this time of the Harry Potter TV show.
“As warned for two, I have prepared a large supply of champagne as a precaution.”