Jk's Favourite For Person Of The Year

HARRY Potter author JK Rowling is frontrunner to win Time magazine's Person of the Year award.

The writer, who lives in Edinburgh, is ahead of Nobel Peace Prize winner Al
Gore and US presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton in a poll.

Rowling, 42, has clocked up more than 36,000 votes on the magazine's website, around 14,000 ahead of Gore.

Controversial candidates include General David Petraeus, US military leader in Iraq, and Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Time said of Rowling: "She finished a seven-book epic that will be read by
children, and lots of adults, for generations to come."

This year's winner will be announced on December 21. Past winners include
the Queen, Richard Nixon, Adolf Hiter and Josef Stalin.