By any metric, JK Rowling should be a national treasure. Her Harry Potter books have sold over 600 million copies worldwide

One is the queen of children's fiction and the other is - well, the Queen.

The outrage that the words ‘J.K. Rowling, OM’ would trigger in a certain sector of the online literati is too delicious to contemplate.

By any metric, JK Rowling should be a national treasure. Her Harry Potter books have sold over 600 million copies worldwide