Albus Dumbledore

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Photo: Tolga Akmen / AFPJ.K. Rowling found out that all’s fair in love and war the hard and awkward way on a Zoom call. The author of the Harry Potter series spoke to someone she thought was Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. The person behind the call wasn’t the Ukrainian statesman at all, though,rather the Russian comedic duo Vovan and Lexus. The roughly 12-minute Zoom call, where Rowling can be seen on video while the fake Zelensky was audio-only, was uploaded to YouTube last week and spotted by the Hollywood…