@Oddthinking A claim that no one was seriously making? You're kidding, right?

@ComicSansSeraphim Nope. The OP very carefully focussed the question on one aspect of the whole debate that they knew (by their own search mentioned in the question) was false. No-one was seriously making the argument that the exact words "hook-nosed" were explicitly applied by Rowling in the books. The linked story was about a reaction to the movies. This whole debate was trigged by a strawman.

* For clarity: By "whole debate" I mean "whole debate on this question on Skeptics.SE", not the greater discussion about anti-semiticism in the Harry Potter universe.