JK Rowling has locked horns with famed hate speech aficionados the Westboro Baptist Church. And it’s all gone a bit weird.

Following the Irish gay marriage referendum result, Rowling was prompted to suggest her creation, Dumbledore, can now get married to JRR Tolkien’s equivalent elderly bearded wizard person, Gandalf.

.@justaoifethings Then they could get married IN IRELAND! pic.twitter.com/yXedPavZfp

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) May 23, 2015

Yay!

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But then someone from the Westboro Baptist Church – apparently doing their daily forensic trawl of Pink News – threatened to protest against the beautiful upcoming nuptials:

So @jk_rowling wants Dumbledore & Gandalf to marry in Ireland; if it happens, WBC will picket! #NotBanned @pinknews pic.twitter.com/zY7hT09Nv4

— WBCSays (@WBCsigns) May 26, 2015

Boooo!

Quick as a flash, JK swooped in with a blistering response…

.@WBCsigns Alas, the sheer awesomeness of such a union in such a place would blow your tiny bigoted minds out of your thick sloping skulls.

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) May 26, 2015

And the Westboro Baptist Church hit back with… a surreal Vine imagining the marriage of the two wizards..?

Eh?