Did J.K. cast her spell on the council?

J. K. ROWLING has been given the go-ahead by planners for a makeover of her 31-room Edinburgh mansion after it was deemed ‘invisible’ from public view — just like Harry Potter’s magic cloak.

As I revealed last month, the author’s architects were ordered back to the drawing board after council bigwigs slammed their ‘completely garbled’ plans for the 16th-century tower house. They have now been granted planning permission to turn a games room into a kitchen and the existing kitchen into a boots room and laundry.

Rowling and her husband, Potter lookalike Neil Murray, needed consent because the house, for which they paid more than £2 million in 2009, is Grade II-listed and in a designated conservation area.