10 objects on which J.K. Rowling maybe wrote Harry Potter

LONDON, ENGLAND – JULY 07: JK Rowling, Emma Watson, Jason Isaacs and Daniel Radcliffe look on as Rupert Grint speak to the fans on stage during the World Premiere of Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows – Part 2 at Trafalgar Square on July 7, 2011 in London, England. (Photo by Ian Gavan/Getty Images)

Consider: the money J.K. Rowling gave to charity.

In 2012, J.K. Rowling dropped off the Forbes billionaires list partially because she donated so much money to charity. She was the first book author to make the list and she stayed on it for seven years. However, after giving an estimated $160 million to various charities — a whopping 16 percent of her fortune — she gave up her billionaire status.

With all that money, what else is there to do? It’s technically illegal to write on currency, but I doubt anyone would come after J.K. Rowling if she just happened to jot down some ideas for her best-selling, worldwide phenomenon of a book series.

Bills are small, but surely $160 million worth of them would provide enough space to write out… most of the series. Perhaps all of it. It would depend on how small she wrote and whether she wrote on both sides of each bill. It would be like those art posters where scenes from Alice in Wonderland and A Clockwork Orange are created using colored text from the novels, except significantly more bourgeoisie.

No one needs reminding how Rowling got her fortune. However, writing Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone all over some bills would certainly do the trick in case anyone forgot.

In all seriousness, Rowling’s charity donations are admirable, even if a much bigger deal was made out of her dropping off the Forbes list than the story needed.