J.K. Rowling Becomes a Billionaire

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Fri Feb 27, 8:52 AM ET

By MICHAEL P. REGAN, AP Business Writer

NEW YORK - Bill Gates is still the world's richest man, but his buddy Warren Buffett has come within a few billion dollars of knocking him off the top of the list, according to Forbes magazine's annual ranking of the world's billionaires.

Among the rookies were "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling, whose wildly popular tales of a boy wizard were enough to amass her an estimated fortune of $1 billion.

Man... would I ever love this woman to adopt me!!!

Not only would you be rich, because of your mothers fortune... but, you could know the ending to the series of HP books!!

Well, she is in her thirties, so I doubt she would want us as her kids, but oh how sweet it would be.

Hey... just go and burst my bubble... you, you, bubble buster!

Well, I am just as bummed as you are. I would make a great daughter for either her or Bill Gates .

I don't want Bill Gates... I was JKR. Money AND the HP mystery solved!

Well J.K. is the ultimate, but if she wont have me, I can settle for Bill.

Okay... I can accept that. But, ONLY if she didn't want to take us on as her two most devoted fans. We would be good daughters, don't you think?

Yes, and I do windows as well.

Hey... she's got enough damn money to buy her own cleaning company.

And she wrote the idea for HP on a bar napkin. Dang diddly darn.

-HECK!

I wrote an idea for a Uni essay on a business card once.

I got a high distinction for it (not the card, the essay)

PS. Good for her. *resentment in voice*

hehehe

That would work.... count me in! I will be the slave driver!

Honestly, if anyone would adopt me, i would want it to me the president of china, Hu Jinto, not only would you uber money, you would have some control over the worlds largest armed forces.

All those kids that stole your lunch money in school? you could come knocking at there door with a few red guard.

All the people that cut you off in traffic you could have there tires slashed.

And most importently, all those people at boston market that get the LAST piece of corn bread, you could cut them and be like "ya, what you gonna do, call the president''

That's one unstable place to be though

with JK Rowling I'd not only have the money, but I know there'd be no one but religious groups ticked at my adoptive mum And what're they gonna do, throw their bibles at us?