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9 spellbinding JK Rowling Twitter slams

Behind this kind exterior is a ruthless Twitter icon.
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JK Rowling is a wordsmith, better, she's a wizard of words.

She's made millions, maybe even a billion (according to Fortune) out of her words. Her seemingly endless creativity has produced an entire universe that is adored the world over.

In short, Rowling is aptly armed to dispatch even the most loquacious Twitter-user.

Over the years, Rowling has entertained us not just with her literature but her brutal Twitter takedowns.

These are some of her best:

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The time she laid a snare for Piers Morgan

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The Twitter feud between JK Rowling and Piers Morgan is one of Potter vs Voldemort proportions. In this battle, though, Rowling cast a perfect expelliarmus on her opponent with an ingenious piece of bait, which Morgan couldn't resist.

The "Good Morning Britain" host stepped straight on Rowling's landmine. The touching message from her fan was, in fact, Morgan's own words. The former Daily Mirror editor had written glowingly about the author in a Daily Mail column in 2010, headlined: "The 100 British celebrities who really matter by Piers Morgan."

Morgan claimed he was in on the joke but we're not buying it.

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The time she gave US Vice President Mike Pence a biblical reminder

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Mike Pence's hypocrisy was put on display in cutting fashion after President Trump signed an executive order barring immigrants from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the US.

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The time she defended Voldemort — 'nowhere near as bad' as Donald Trump

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In case you're not familiar with Harry Potter, Lord Voldemort was a seriously bad dude. He was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of wizards, including Potter's parents. Not to mention, Voldemort's wand gave Potter his iconic lightning bolt scar when he was just a baby.

In an Entertainment Weekly article from 2000, J.K. Rowling said Voldemort was "a raging psychopath, devoid of the normal human responses to other people's suffering, and there ARE people like that in the world."

Not a great comparison for Trump.

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The time a Trump supporter's threat to burn Rowlings DVDs backfired

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There's just no coming back from that.

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The time someone needed a lesson on sexism

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Sexism is alive and well but not if J.K. Rowling has anything to say about it.

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The time she checked someone's literacy ability

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In fairness, Harry Potter never turns anyone into a frog.

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The time the Daily Mail used 'openly gay' as an insult

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The 'openly gay' ex-Olympic fencer was one of the three judges branded 'ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE' by the Daily Mail after the High Court decided that Theresa May had to secure parliamentary approval before invoking Article 50 and withdrawing Britain from the European Union.

The paper received over 1,000 complaints about the title which was likened by critics to 1930s Nazi propaganda.

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The time she was sarcasm personified

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Not sure what kind of reaction Scott was expecting here.

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And when she had the perfect response after someone said they couldn't see Dumbledore as gay

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If there's one constant we can expect from 2017, it's that Rowling isn't going to sit back and let the trolls take over.

In the words of Albus Dumbledore: "Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it."

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