J.K. Rowling once used the world's greatest excuse when she was late with book edits

Everyone's heard the old excuse about the dog eating the homework. This one's way, way better, though.

It started when the official QI account shared this glorious fact about the Large Hadron Collider on Thursday:

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12 minutes later, J.K. Rowling responded with a story that was sort of similar. It was also quite possibly the greatest excuse anyone's ever given for not handing a piece of work in on time.

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Maybe the aardvark was a die-hard Harry Potter fan who didn't want her to move on and was attempting to sabotage her foray into crime writing. Maybe he was just hungry. We'll probably never know.

Either way, it turned out Rowling wasn't the only one who'd experienced something like this.

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Leave our wires alone, nature.