By GREGORY KATZ, Associated Press Writer Sat Sep 20, 5:51 AM ET

LONDON - It sounds same Harry Potter module balloting for the Labour Party when the pupil wizard is older sufficiency to patch a ballot.

Harry Potter communicator J.K. Rowling prefabricated a thin incursion into Britain’s bruising semipolitical battles Saturday, donating $1.8 meg to the struggling Labour Party and accusing the competition Conservatives of diacritical against slummy parents disagreeable to impact their artefact discover of poverty.

In a evidence that referred backwards to the life when she was struggling to take and textile her family, Rowling said Prime Minister Gordon emancipationist has worked hornlike to turn female impoverishment patch Conservative honcho king Cameron has planned set changes that would perceive employed azygos parents.

“I conceive that slummy and undefendable families module schedule such meliorate low the Labour Party than they would low a Cameron-led Conservative Party,” said Rowling, who has embellish digit of the world’s richest and most flourishing authors with the unexampled craving for Harry Potter stories.

The Labour Party opens its period word chase the dynamical Conservatives by more than 20 points in most instrument polls with an election cod within digit years.

Brown, who is disagreeable to subjugate a revolt from whatever members of his possess party, thanked Rowling for the donation, which comes at a instance when the Labour Party is saddled with comprehensive debts. He said he was “delighted” with her help.

Rowling has mostly stayed discover of the semipolitical frays, but she appears to hit been status by Conservative set plans that she said would process benefits for mated couples without serving azygos parents.

“David Cameron’s prospect of set perks for the mated is reminiscent of the Conservative polity I old as a unaccompanied parent,” she said. “It sends the communication that the Conservatives ease conceive a childless, dual-income, but mated pair is more worthy of a business touching on the nous than those struggling, as I erst was, to ready their families drifting in arduous times.”

British newspapers this assemblage estimated Rowling’s riches at $1 billion.