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'Voldemort nowhere near as bad as Donald Trump' - JK Rowling

JK Rowling expressed her distaste after Donald Trump called for a halt on Muslims entering America.
JK Rowling expressed her distaste after Donald Trump called for a halt on Muslims entering America. JK Rowling expressed her distaste after Donald Trump called for a halt on Muslims entering America.

AMERICAN presidential hopeful Donald Trump has dominated headlines recently with his controversial outbursts in hustings.

Last night, he called for a halt on Muslims entering America.

Twitter didn’t take that all too well, and has started comparing the businessman to Lord Voldemort.

You-Know-Who is as evil as it gets in Harry Potter (Anthony Devlin/PA)

JK Rowling’s evil character (aka Tom Riddle) is so horrid that no witch or wizard dares to even speak his name.

So it’s no surprise that the author of the Harry Potter series has taken offence that Donald Trump is being compared to He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.

But for another reason: she says even Voldemort isn’t that bad.

In a retweet of an article explaining why people were comparing the two, JK Rowling said Voldemort was “nowhere near as bad” as Trump.

Given Voldemort is leader of the Death Eaters, just how evil does Rowling think Trump is?