JK Rowling earns £3 million a week.

The ‘Harry Potter’ author’s incredible earnings - equivalent to £5 a second - are from the 375 million sales of the seven books in the popular children’s series, a percentage of revenue from the movie adaptations and spin-off merchandise, including toys and video games, according to financial bible Forbes.

JK - real first name Joanne - is believed to be worth around £560 million and is expected to see her earnings soar even further, with three more ‘Harry Potter’ movies scheduled for release.

Forbes spokesperson Lacey Rose said: “”It was wizardry that transformed JK Rowling from a destitute single mother on welfare into a super-rich success.

“On the big screen, her ‘Potter’ franchise has already generated £2.1 billion at the worldwide box office - and she still has three flicks to go.”

After completing the ‘Harry Potter’ series, the author - who earned more than the other writers in the top 10 put together - devotes most of her time to charity work, including the Children’s High Level Group, which she founded.

Last month, she donated £1 million to the Labour Party, the ruling political party of the UK.
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The Scottish writer - who recently confessed she broke down in tears after finishing the seventh and final book Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - has been seen “scribbling away” on a detective plot in an Edinburgh café.

Rowling is refusing to reveal the plot of her new tome, but said on her website: “I want to write something completely different. I can take my time. And the idea of just wandering off to a café with a notebook and writing and seeing where it takes me for a while is just bliss.”

She added: “I’ll do what I did with ‘Harry Potter’ - I will write what I really want to write.”

Rowling wrote the boy wizard’s first adventure, ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’, in an Edinburgh café when she was a struggling single mother.