I am not an especial Rowling fan. I read the first of the Harry Potter books and liked it well enough, but was not excited. The new magic was too dense. People were doing magical things everywhere. In the older fantasies the magic was often more of a poorly understood natural ability with actual magical events ancient and accumulated, brought forth for a purpose into essentially non-magical worlds. Still, she was clever, could write a good combo fantasy/school story and my family loved her.
I have become more of a fan in recent years when she has come under attack for cultural and political reasons. She has struck the balance between firmness, even harshness, and graciousness and sticking to reason rather than fashion.
Ann Althouse ran a post about her this morning which is among the best I have seen on the topic. Now that the Harry Potter stars have become adults and have taken to a very showy form of trashing the woman who made them famous, Rowling has subjected them to adult treatment. I doubt they will like it.
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