Tacks,
Ok, I'll concede that making kids (and adults, for that matter) spend more time reading and less time vegetating is a good thing. And I definitely agree that she's worth way more than sports stars and actors and such.
And she may deserve some nice stacks of money, because of what she went through earlier in life. Pay her back for all the bad hands life dealt her before, or what have you.
I just don't think she's worth that freakin much. When she makes multiple times more in one day than 90% of the population will ever see in their entire lives, it's just not right. The same goes for Bill Gates, Julia Roberts, and anyone else that makes that kind of money.
Sorry, I don't mean to sound rude, or like I'm on my big soapbox or whatever. Its just my opinion - more on the pitiful state of modern capitalism than JKR personally. So I apologize for attacking her like that. My major goal in life is to make enough money to buy my kids decent christmas presents and send them through college. Anything past that is just a waste, imho.
---J