Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling was one of many celebrities to testify in the Leveson inquiry, where U.K. reporters have been going above and beyond to invade the privacy of notable names, including actors Hugh Grant, Sienna Miller, and even Daniel Radcliffe's parents. Rowling commented on the fact that reporters stalked her soon after her children were born, and even went so far as to invade one of their schools to send a letter explicitly to Jo. More on that is below.

Ms Rowling told the inquiry - which is being held at the Royal Courts of Justice - that children deserved privacy and that she had always tried to protect her private family life from the press, by taking measures which included wrapping them in blankets to hide them from paparazzi.

"They (children) have no choice over who their parents are or how their parents behave.

"A child, no matter who their parents are, deserves privacy. Where children are concerned the issue is fairly black and white."

She recalled: "I unzipped her schoolbag in the evening, and among the usual letters from school and the debris that every child generates, I found an envelope and a letter addressed to me from a journalist.

"The letter said that he intended to ask a mother at the school to put this in my daughter's bag.

"I can only say that I felt such a sense of invasion. It is very difficult to say how angry I felt that my five-year-old daughter's school was no longer a place of complete security from journalists."

"I feel that given fact that an image has a life that cannot be recalled... I'm sure it is still out there, that's the particular harm of an image."

"I rather absurdly gave chase. How I thought I was going to outrun a 20-something paparazzo while pushing a buggy. The cumulative effect, it becomes quite draining."

"There were two particularly bad periods when it really was like being under siege or like a hostage," Ms Rowling said.

"After the birth of each of my subsequent children, for a week it was impossible for me to leave the house without being photographed."

She added: "It is difficult to explain to people who haven't experienced it what that feels like.

"The twist in the stomach as you wonder what do they want, what do they think they have? It is incredibly threatening to have people watching you."

The Harry Potter writer said she had felt like she was being "blackmailed" by the Sun after taking out an injunction to stop the newspaper publishing leaked copies of the fifth Harry Potter manuscript.

"What they wanted was a photograph of me gratefully receiving back the stolen manuscript," Rowling explained.

She said a journalist from the Scottish Sun had on one occasion contacted the headmaster of her daughter's school.

"The claim by the journalist was that my eldest daughter had distressed fellow pupils by revealing that Harry Potter died in the final Harry Potter, and the headmaster had received complaints from other pupils and their parents," said Ms Rowling.

"My daughter was being accused of some kind of bullying."

She added: "There was not one word of truth in it."