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How Did J.K. Rowling Think of the Harry Potter Series?

Everyone knows about the Harry Potter book and movie series but not everyone is really familiar on how she thought of the Harry Potter story.

Well in this article I will tell you the lifestyle of J.K. (Joanne Kathleen) Rowling when she was just a child and how this big idea all came to her and I will explain this all briefly.

Well first I will speak of how J.K. Rowling became so talented in fiction writing. When J.K. Rowling was only six she always wanted to be an author when she grew up. At the age of six she wrote her own book about a rabbit called Rabbit! J.K. Rowling was inspired because she was surrounded by books, her parents had books every where!

I will now talk about how she came up with the Harry Potter series briefly. When J.K. Rowling was on the train from Manchester to London the whole idea just popped up to her and by the time J.K. Rowling arrived at King's Cross many of the characters formed up in her head. In the book Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows she described what her life was like when she was only a child and how she came up with the ideas in more detail.

Her statement is:

“J.K. (Joanne Kathleen) Rowling has written fiction since she was a child, and always wanted to be an author. Her parents loved reading, and their house in Chepstow was full of books. In fact, J.K. Rowling wrote her first "book" at the age of six-a story about a rabbit.

The idea for Harry Potter occurred to J.K. Rowling on the train from Manchester to London, where she says Harry Potter "just strolled into my head fully formed", and by the time she had arrived at King's Cross, many of the characters had taken shape. During the next five years she outlined the plots for each book and began writing the first series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone, which was first published by Bloomsbury in 1997. The other Harry Potter titles: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, followed. J.K. Rowling has also written two companion books, Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to find Them, in the aid of Comic Relief.”

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#1 by david, Jul 12, 2008
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