Joan Rowling was deceived by a duo joker who tricked the author of Harry Potter into believing that she was having a conversation on Zoom with the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky.
In the video below, first posted online early Tuesday by The Rowling Library, Rowling was fooled by Russian comedy group Vovan and Lexus, which are notorious for celebrity jokes. Their past victims include Elton John, Prince Harry, Billy Isle, Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders and George W. Bush.
The author’s spokesman called the fraud “unpleasant” and noted: “J. K. Rowling turned to talk about her extensive charitable work in Ukraine, helping children and families affected by the current conflict in the region. The video that has been edited is a distorted representation of the conversation. “
During the 12-minute, increasingly embarrassing video, jokers note that the scar on his forehead from a Harry Potter flash looks like a “Z” that the Russian army put on its tanks during its invasion of Ukraine and became a symbol. of support for war between the Russians. Rowling was asked if she would change the symbol of the Ukrainian trident. “I’ll look into this,” she assured. “Maybe it’s good to do something about it on social media, because I think it’s going to be in the papers.
The duo pressed Rowling to see if Dumbledore was really gay and asked who he was sleeping with, noting that it was “hopefully not transgender.”
The duo told Rowling that they were writing “Avada Kedavra” – the murder curse in the Harry Potter franchise – on rockets.
Zelenski’s impersonator was apparently only audio during the conversation (so there didn’t have to be a poliscock to perform the trick). But at one point, they turned on their webcam to present the Order of the Ukrainian Phoenix, a trio wearing T-shirts with the words “Only Putin” in Russian. “We Czech Harry Potter to the soldiers in the battalion. … Just don’t read them crossbreed passages [as] they are nationalists and do not like such people, “said the jokers.
Rowling’s charity Lumos works in the Zhytomyr region to help vulnerable children and families, and the author is actively promoting his work on Twitter.
The jokers said, “I want to clarify where you are sending the money that Lumos has collected. … We want to buy a lot of weapons and missiles with your money to destroy the Russian troops, I hope you are all for it. Rowling replied: “We will take care of the children, but I really want Ukraine to have all the necessary weapons.
In addition to the specifics of the jokes themselves, Vovan and Lexus have been criticized in the past for often targeting high-ranking people who are critical of Russian foreign policy, leading some to suspect that they are state actors.
Rowling’s latest work was co-authoring and producing Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, which recently began streaming on HBO Max.
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