Some people see you as the Umbridge. You have these younger critics online and they see Hermione as standing up to an older person with power. How do you know if you're a Hermione or an Umbridge? Well, if you're having a lot of fun doing it and getting a huge sense of self satisfaction out of it, then I do believe you may be want to stop and think, am I getting a huge ego rush out of this? That would be a good question to ask yourself. None of this has given me pleasure. It has given me anxiety. It has made me at times feel vulnerable. There has been fallout in my life inevitably. I still don't regret standing
Host Megan Phelps-Roper asks J.K. Rowling to respond to pushback from some of her critics. The two also discuss the difficulty of discernment—why it can be so hard to know what’s right.
Produced by Andy Mills, Matthew Boll, Megan Phelps-Roper, with special thanks to Candace Mittel Kahn and Emily Yoffe.
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