Best-seller: I do miss Pottering about with more of Harry’s fans
given an £8,000 Scottish Arts Council grant to complete it, toured schools and libraries to promote the novel’s launch.
And while she is now worth over £500 million, she wishes she still could have such close contact with her fans.
The mother-of-three said: “I miss the days when readings and events were slightly more low key.
“I’m not complaining, but when audiences grow big you obviously can’t reach everyone who wants to ask you a question.
“Being able to engage with people on Twitter goes some way to solving this for me.
“I never dreamed that there would be a fandom the size of Harry Potter’s picking over the books.
“It’s astounding that people are still so interested in those books, and I doubt I’ll ever stop interacting as long as there are readers who know the world so well.”
In 2008 JK held one of her last small-scale public readings when 200 schoolchildren were invited to join her for a reading at the National Library of Scotland.
In 2016 she returned to her literary roots sitting down for tea and cake after flying to the Orkneys to meet fans at a local library.
Now the best-selling author is helping other budding writers with tips on her website Jkrowling.com.