The only problem is that the beloved comedian claims he never said what’s being attributed to him.
“I just want to show you a caricature.
And they’re like, ‘Oh, look at that, that’s from ‘Harry Potter’!
“J.K. Rowling was like, ‘Can we get these guys to run our bank?’
And everybody was just like, ‘Wizards.’
It was so weird.”
Stewart wondered why, in a world where magic is possible, Jews still initiate the bank.
“She need not answer to any of it.
I don’t want the ‘Harry Potter’ movies censored in any way.”
In fact, the former “Daily Show” stalwart professed to be a massive Potter fan.
As theIndependentnotes, the Campaign Against Antisemitism defended Rowling prior to Stewart’s clarification.
