Srinagar: A girl from a remote village in Jammu appears to have done what even Harry Potter could not: charmed the lady who created the boy wizard.

Author J.K. Rowling has sent Kulsum Bano Bhat, 12, a gift hamper, so impressed was she by the Class VII girl's words in an essay-writing project.

The hamper includes books Rowling has written, stationery and a handwritten note with a message for the Kashmiri girl, a student of Haji Public School in Jammu's Chenab valley.

"I have sent some things. I hope you like them. I was so impressed by your English. It will be an honour to meet you one day. With love, J.K. Rowling," a video shows Kulsum reading from the note, purportedly from Rowling.

Kulsum's English teacher had uploaded the video.

A tweet from Rowling revealed how glad the author was that the gift had reached the girl. "I'm so happy it got there! I was getting worried! Xxx," she tweeted.

Kulsum had caught Rowling's attention in April when her school tweeted her essay and tagged the writer. "I am not inspired by J.K. Rowling only because she writes well but also because she has faced many difficulties but didn't give up," she wrote.

Rowling had endured a failed marriage and relative poverty until the first novel in the Potter series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, was published in 1997.

Kulsum too has seen her share of difficulties in her young life. The girl, daughter of a farmer, and her three siblings are first-generation English learners. There is no road to her village, Breswana, in Doda, from the nearest township and the 7km trek has to be covered by foot or on horseback.

Sabbah Haji, the public school's director, has invited Rowling to visit Doda and meet Kulsum, saying "a first generation English learner from the Himalayas would like to meet you some day. So come visit us at #HajiPublicSchool".

Kulsum's English teacher summed up the mood in the school. "Gifts from JKR with personalised notes for Kulsum. All of class 7 (along with their director Sabbah Haji) lost their minds," she tweeted.