Why do you like Harry Potter?

It's a story about acceptance and love.

I had not such a great childhood and I think a kid with not such a great childhood actually escaped to something else in a book.

She teaches you the importance of friendships, the importance of forgiveness.

The way people pull together, they're different, they don't all exactly agree with one another, but they can say,

okay, this is the common good and this is what we're going to work for.

What do you think of J.K. Rowling?

Um...

I...

So there's a lot of controversy with that one?

So I have a comment that'll say off the...

Yeah, off the thing.

Let me.

I never set out to upset anyone.

However, I was not uncomfortable with getting off my pedestal.

And what has interested me over the last 10 years and certainly in the last few years, last two, three years, particularly on social media,

you've ruined your legacy.

Oh, you could have been beloved forever, but you chose to say this.

And I think you could not have misunderstood me more profoundly.

I'm Megan Phelps-Roper, and coming soon...

The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling.

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