JK Rowling recalls 'amazing' moment she met her idol Morrissey
Harry Potter author remembers the shock of her encounter with the Smiths singer, in a Guardian interview that touches on Twitter trolls and the joy of being an undiscovered writer again
JK Rowling has said that she wishes she could go back to her 16-year-old self, "who's lying there in the dark with the joss sticks, listening to Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now", and tell her that one day she will meet Morrissey - and that the Smiths singer will know who she is.
The novelist, who has sold over 450m copies of her Harry Potter books and whose almost 6m followers on Twitter regularly fall into paroxysms of delight when she responds to them personally, was speaking to Lauren Laverne for Saturday's Weekend magazine. Rowling told Laverne that she understood why the Harry Potter book "still means so much" to adults in their 20s, "because I know how much it meant to me to meet Morrissey".
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