JK Rowling: 'I nearly snatched baby from cot'

Author JK Rowling, who grew up in Tutshill, has revealed how she almost snatched a baby from her cot in an Eastern European orphanage likened to a prison.
The Harry Potter author said: "I'm an emotional person. I struggle with that a lot in this kind of situation. There was one little baby, a girl, and I was standing at this cot and I
just thought, "I will take her".

"It was irrational but that's your human response. There was no earthly way I could take this baby home but that is your most powerful reaction. You think as a mother, "I will save this baby, this one baby"."
Rowling's emotional encounter happened whilst carrying out her work with Lumos, the children's charity which she founded and named after a spell in the Harry Potter novels.

Her charity has rescued thousands of children from filthy and inadequate care homes in some of Europe's poorest countries.