If you're going to come at the queen of the Wizarding World, you better not miss.

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One Twitter user learned this the hard way when they came at JK Rowling with possibly the most rubbish insult anyone could ever call a wildly successful author of seven books set in a fantastical magic world – a "nerd". You may as well call water wet! Or Severus Snape's treatment of Hogwarts students psychological abuse that should absolutely be investigated by OFSTED or a magical OFSTED equivalent!

Rowling's response was quick, simple and to the point.

Quite.

The original user – who was blacked out by Rowling, because she is a merciful lord – was responding to the tweet below, in which Rowling sent well-wishes to 'American Potterheads' on the 20th anniversary of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (the American title of her first book) being published in the United States.

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Here's to another 20 years of Harry Potter, JK Rowling, and JK Rowling tweeting fairly innocuous stuff that we all turn into articles.

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