Yep. Not entirely her fault. It's just a shitload of pressure.

I remember reading something by a musician that said the reason most musicians tended to make huge demands when they became big(have a dish of only green M&Ms in the dressing room, etc) was that, until then, they were treated like crap. Might be something similar for authors.

Snape would be awesome as an Advanced Potions teacher. Sure, he still wants to be DADA teacher, but the position is still cursed, so he'd only last a year no matter what happened.

Some people can write romance. Others can't. I still figure JKR's doing a better job than if someone from Harlequin wrote the series.