--- title: J.K. Rowling Tweets Dream Job If She Weren't Harry Potter Writer description: Dream job alert canonical: https://time.com/3602325/jk-rowling-harry-potter-dream-job-writer/ author: Laura Stampler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-11-24T16:02:56.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:14:47.940Z og:title: J.K. Rowling Reveals Her Dream Job If She Weren't A Writer og:description: Dream job alert og:url: https://time.com/3602325/jk-rowling-harry-potter-dream-job-writer/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: J.K. Rowling Reveals Her Dream Job If She Weren't A Writer twitter:description: Dream job alert twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # J.K. Rowling Reveals Her Dream Job If She Weren't A Writer by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Nov 24, 2014 4:02 PM UTC by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Nov 24, 2014 4:02 PM UTC _Harry Potter_ author J.K. Rowling won Twitter today by revealing the career she would have adopted were she not a hugely successful writer: > [](https://twitter.com/jk%5Frowling/status/536863504108904448) Potter fans will likely recognize the significance of her choice. The Patronus, the result of a defensive spell that channels a wizard’s positive feelings, of main character Hermione (who Rowling has said is [based](http://www.empireonline.com/features/greatest-harry-potter-characters/22.asp) on her younger self) is an otter. But just in case case Rowling is looking for a second job, we would like to point out that some [China Zoos are hiring for panda nannies.](http://time.com/109179/now-hiring-panda-nannies/) Just think of the bedtime stories she’d tell them. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3602325/jk-rowling-harry-potter-dream-job-writer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3602325/jk-rowling-harry-potter-dream-job-writer/"},"headline":"J.K. Rowling Reveals Her Dream Job If She Weren't A Writer","datePublished":"2014-11-24T16:02:56.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:14:47.940Z","description":"Dream job alert","url":"https://time.com/3602325/jk-rowling-harry-potter-dream-job-writer/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Internet","viral","Harry Potter","JK Rowling","celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Laura Stampler","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3602325/jk-rowling-harry-potter-dream-job-writer/","name":"J.K. Rowling Reveals Her Dream Job If She Weren't A Writer"}}]}] ```