JK Rowling Fulfills 7-Year-Old Syrian Girl’s ‘Harry Potter’ Request

JK Rowling Fulfills 7-Year-Old Syrian Girl’s ‘Harry Potter’ Request “I’ve been obsessing over this all morning,” tweets the author The author replied to Bana Alabed on Twitter this morning, after the young girl asked Rowling how she could get a copy of the book. Alabed’s account is controlled by her mother Fatemah, who told Rowling that she and her daughter had watched the “Harry Potter” movie and that Bana wanted to read the book. A handful of people on social media took notice of this exchange and began letting Rowling know that Alabed was located in Aleppo, and that they wouldn’t be able to just go to the bookstore and purchase a copy. Rowling’s representative also took notice and wanted to help Alabed get her book. Alabed made headlines in October because of the nature of her Twitter account — she was tweeting accounts of her life in war-torn Syria. “Bana kept asking me to share our story so the world can understand what is happening to us,” Fatemah told NBC.