EDINBURGH: Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling has been stormed with consignments of writing paper after she had complained of shortage of lined notepads near her home in Edinburgh. Her fans, eagerly awaiting the seventh and final Harry Potter book, have sent her paper right from single sheets to notepads of all sizes and varieties. One guy, a paper merchant, even sent her notebooks with her name embossed on them.

And Rowling says enough is enough and the paper she got would be sufficient to write “several sevens.”

The writer, who prefers to write in long hand using a pen, has complained of paper shortage in the vicinity of her home on her website.

While many sent her paper, others told her where she can buy writing paper in Edinburgh - “some even enclosed maps.”
Meanwhile, the author decried critics who accused of her being prejudiced against overweight people. She had revealed that she feared her two daughters would grow up to be “empty-headed, self-obsessed, emaciated clones” in a world where waif-like women make the covers of fashion magazines.

A journalist, Simon Walters, responded to this in the Mail on Sunday, accusing her of hypocrisy. He said in her books, Harry Potter’s cousin, Dudley Dursley, a bully who makes Harry’s life miserable, is portrayed as fat, while her hero is “slim and attractive.”

Rowling defended the portrayal of her characters on her personal website, saying, “Several of my most important, admirable and lovable characters… are on the plumper side.”

“Overweight in no way equates to ‘bad’ in my fictional world,” she wrote in a note posted on her website.