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If it just us, or is J.K. Rowling becoming even more inspirational??

Her story in becoming the writer she is today is astounding, and now that she's at an amazing level, she loves doing her part in giving back — she just announced a $16M donation to Edinburgh University to fund a clinic for multiple sclerosis and neurodegenerative disease.

That's not it, though. A new eBook version of her massively successful Tales of Beedle the Bardcompanion book is set to launch!

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Wow — the days of Harry Potter truly are gone!

J.K. Rowling's new book, The Casual Vacancy, will be tackling one of the worst kinds of addiction… heroin addiction!

It's being called:

"a story of class warfare set amid semi-rural poverty, heroin addiction, and teen-age perplexity and sexuality."

Apparently it draws heavily from Rowling's own experiences

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Evanna Lynch, the actress who played Luna Lovegood in the Harry Potter films, wrote a letter to JK Rowling before she had ever been cast in the film.

As we previously mentioned, she was struggling with anorexia and reached out to Rowling for help.

Rowling actually responded to the letter and it really stuck with Lynch.

And now she had really opened up about her disorder:

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