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[–] addie@feddit.uk 0 points 2 weeks ago

Not wanting to defend Rowling, since she's an evil and hateful person, but there's many great authors who fall foul of basic arithmetic. I would argue that they are completely separate skills; TV Tropes has a good list. (Also, I'd argue that most of her good ideas were taken from someone else.)

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WritersCannotDoMath