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Headline: J.K. Rowling hits back at Stephen Fry after he calls her 'lost cause'

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The actor, who had previously described Rowling as "a friend of mine", criticised the Harry Potter author, for her outspoken views on transgender rights on The Show People podcast last week. The 67-year-old, who narrated the audiobooks for all seven Harry Potter novels, said that he feared she had been “radicalised”, by trans-exclusionary radical feminists (TERFs) and expressed concern that she "seems to be a lost cause for us”. Jolyon Maugham, the founder of the Good Law Project, shared Fry's quotes on X over the weekend, and praised The Hobbit star for being brave enough to speak out...

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