When I ask Radcliffe about the public response to his previous statements about Rowling, things get a bit tense. He demurs, politely explaining why he’d prefer not to speak about her. “The reason I don’t talk about it anymore is because I’ve said what I want to say on it,” he says. When I point out that I can understand that it might be a thorny subject for him—Rowling’s pivot to avowed anti-trans rhetoric—he corrects me. “To me, it’s not been thorny,” he says. “It’s been a simple thing to talk about. It’s been very easy for me to talk about.” The problem, to him, isn’t his position. It’s this: “You will write a really nice article about this interview and then nobody will talk about anything from it because it’s just giving the Daily Mail pull quotes. And I really hate giving the Daily Mail pull quotes.” The world Rowling created is inescapable. A few blocks from where we’re sitting, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child just celebrated its seventh year on Broadway, and …