[AmericaUnited]

First the Harry Potter author

Huh? Any 'authoritative' links on that?

[potlatch]

I actually may have been thinking of Ann Rice when I posted that, no one else even questioned it!! Here is one site;

http://www.internetwritingjournal.com/aug05/rowling2.htm

J.K.Rowling;

Jo Rowling has stated that one of the most irritating results of the books' success has been the criticism from
some Christian groups that the books are un-Christian and promote the occult. Those groups infuriate the author, who is has said in interviews that she is a Christian, she believes in God and that she attends church.

(she belongs to the Church of Scotland, which Americans would call the Presbyterian Church).