The Harry Potter author loves her privacy. With her fame comes fans wanting to take photos outside her home. So she just needed to have a 30-ft privacy hedge of Leylandi bush surrounding her Edinburgh mansion. The bush can, of course, just grow out of control and has to be professionally trimmed down. And because she is J.K. Rowling, it just had to be a big production with a crane that closed one way of the road and thus, angered her neighbors who describe it as 'chaos' that lasted three days, reports NY Daily News.
Her mansion is a 17th century creation which she bought years ago at 2 million GBP. She lives there with her husband, Dr Neil Murray and their three children. As a result of the trimming job, traffic outside her home snarled for days. The gardeners tried to soften the blow and help traffic along by using traffic cones and temporary traffic lights.
This is not J.K. Rowling's first tiff with her neighbors. In 2012, she angered residents when she built two 40-ft high tree houses for her children. Her neighbors did not like the idea, but Rowling had the proper planning permits so guess they had to like it in the long run.
In 2012, the British author sold the home where she wrote the famous Harry Potter series. The 8-bedroom property fetched 2 million GBP. She was in nice company there with neighbors fellow-authors Ian Rankin and Alexander McCall Smith, and Alistair Darling, the former Chancellor.
Aside from her Scottish mansion at Edinburgh, she also has an estate in Perthshire and a townhouse in London. The author's estimated worth is 560 million GBP, having sold 400 million copies of her Harry Potter books. Joanne 'Jo' Rowling in real life, she also goes by the pen name Robert Galbraith.