J.K. Rowling delivers magical takedown of Donald Trump with a single tweet

A little something about making friends.
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Chloe Bryan
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J.K. Rowling thinks that, just like Voldemort, Donald Trump is not a true friend.

The Harry Potter author, Twitter hero and frequent Trump critic went after the candidate again during Wednesday night's presidential debate, and as usual, she left no magical quip unmade.

First, she slammed Trump's "friendships," which are apparently with humans, not buildings.

After all, wouldn't the creator of Harry, Ron and Hermione know what a true friendship looks like?


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Then, she gave viewers reason to take pride in their political participation by invoking a famous author.

And, yet again, she made great use of the retweet function.

Finally, she really boiled this election down for Americans -- egg pun intended.

Stay spellbinding, Jo.

Bonus: The Trump sniff

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Chloe Bryan

Chloe was the shopping editor at Mashable. She was also previously a culture reporter. You can follow her on Twitter at @chloebryan.

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