Discover how SNL star Bowen Yang hilariously portrayed J.K. Rowling as Dobby the house elf in a recent sketch. Find out how the bold perfo...
Discover how SNL star Bowen Yang hilariously portrayed J.K. Rowling as Dobby the house elf in a recent sketch. Find out how the bold performance sparked reactions online. Saturday Night Live got the right person to discuss the recent scandal involving Harry Potter author J.K Rowling.In the season 51 premiere, the Weekend Update segment featured the appearance of Dobby the House Elf in the role of Bowen Yang in horrifying prosthetics, to discuss the anti-trans opinions aired by Rowling in her renewed war with the star of the franchise Emma Watson. Dobby was shaking in his chair, and at first he was afraid to say anything about the topic, but he was later prodded by segment anchor Michael Che to give him some support.
There is nothing to be frightened of, you know, Che said to the elf.
"Scared? Why would Dobby be scared, sir? Dobby is just about to air his opinion on trans people, that is all, Dobby of Yang, started. When Yang's Dobby accidentally exposed Rowling as his master, he added, "Oh, no, Dobby was not meant to say! He cried out on the desk, Bad Dobby, bad Dobby, bad Dobby.
At about this moment the pillowcase tunic of Dobby started to slump off his shoulders - but Yang received the malfunction of his wardrobe as matter of course.
Oh, Dobby come undone, said Yang and he lifted the straps of the garment. "I'm sorry! My fatigues are not brought out properly!Carrying on the bit, the Dobby of Yang gave his best to justify Rowling in his anti-trans position by saying, Master Rowling has done so much to Dobby and to inclusion in general. It was with the books that Dumbledore was gay, right? And only on Broadway was Hermione Black? And when Cho Chang was..."
Dobby said, trailing off, Hmm... was Cho Chang Asian? Dobby does not recall whether the character Cho Chang was an Asian or not.
Following another mishap, Dobby jumped behind the table of the Weekend Update to smash the head on the camera, and Che inquires as to why the elf needed to punish himself, why? Dobby doesn't know. Maybe it is due to the fact that house elves are always somehow the problem, despite the fact that we constitute 1 percent of the population, the trans community is somehow being scapegoated by rhetoric surrounding the TERF (trans-exclusionary radical feminists) movement, he said, lampshading the fact. But it is not the house elves who suffer. Master Rowling is! She gets so much hate mail."
Dobby at that point pulled out a shirt that said They K Rowling and made an example of it as a piece of hate Rowling gets. As the lore and legend of the book suggest, the clothing pieces signify that Dobby is no longer bound, when co-anchor Colin Jost brought this up, the house elf jumped in the air - and Yang himself desperately tried to hold onto the fabric at his shoulders so it would not slide all the way off.
"We've seen it all," Jost quipped. We are seeing it all, all right," Yang threw the strap down and posed, and then embraced the mishap, and left the stage.
The most recent attack on Rowling is following her appearance in the news after she criticized Watson who would not defend the opinion held by the author on trans rights and yet she went ahead to say that she still cherishes the time she spent working with Rowling during her Harry Potter years.
Rowling wrote in a scathing post on X. Like other people with no experience of adult life unprotected by wealth and fame, Emma possesses just enough experience of real life to be ignorant of her own ignorance.
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