Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling tweeted that Voldemort, the villain in her best-selling books, is "nowhere near as bad" as Republican front-runner Donald Trump. | Getty J.K. Rowling: Trump is worse than Voldemort

Donald Trump is worse than the literary and cinematic villain who unsuccessfully tried to kill "The Boy Who Lived."

That's according to J.K. Rowling, the British author of the "Harry Potter" book series, who on Tuesday tweeted her own thoughts about the GOP poll leader across the pond.


"How horrible. Voldemort was nowhere near as bad," Rowling wrote, in sharing a BBC article titled, "Why people are calling American businessman Donald Trump Voldemort."

How horrible. Voldemort was nowhere near as bad. https://t.co/hFO0XmOpPH — J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) December 8, 2015

The tweet comes as part of the worldwide response to the Republican presidential candidate's call to entirely shut down Muslim entry to the United States "until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on."

Rowling's Twitter feed also includes a retweet of a Washington Post graphic showing a geographic representation of mass shootings in the U.S. in 2015, with only three incidents of the suspects being Muslim. Those incidents included the May attack in Garland, Texas, the July attack in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and last Wednesday's San Bernardino, California, massacre, the deadliest act of terror on U.S. soil since 9/11.

Shooting attacks w/Muslim suspects are on everyone's mind.Where they're missing is on the map of US mass shootings. pic.twitter.com/3WxfSj53EG — Hend Amry (@LibyaLiberty) December 6, 2015