This may be the most brutal J.K. Rowling comeback of all time

Don't mess with Rowling.
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Sam Haysom
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LONDON -- J.K. Rowling has outdone herself.

When you're already the Queen of Twitter burns that's not an easy task to manage, but manage it she has.

It started Monday afternoon, when she shared the following quote from Winston Churchill.

Rowling has been tweeting her condemnation of Trump's travel ban over the weekend, so it's likely that tweet was in response to the many Trump supporters angrily tweeting back at her.

A short while later, another Trump supporter hit out at the Harry Potter author.

And boy, did Rowling hit back.

That response has already wracked up around 4,000 retweets in less than half an hour.

A short while later, Rowling tweeted the following addendum.

For more examples of J.K. Rowling-themed Twitter badassery, see here.

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Sam Haysom

Sam Haysom is the Deputy UK Editor for Mashable. He covers entertainment and online culture, and writes horror fiction in his spare time.

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