Check out these nine Harry Potter characters who were inspired by real people. When Joanne Rowling was just a young girl growing up in England, she and a few neighborhood kids used to get together ...

and Hermione Granger came "fully formed" to the mind of a young temp named Joanne Rowling. In the six tumultuous years following, she would imagine an entire magical world of witches and wizards ...

and Hermione Granger came "fully formed" to the mind of a young temp named Joanne Rowling. In the six tumultuous years following, she would imagine an entire magical world of witches and wizards ...

I read about writers having elaborate rituals… I once wrote a paragraph of Harry Potter while sitting on a public loo. J.K. Rowling Rowling and Armitage share stories of their favourite places ...

Joanne Rowling, as she was known then, dreamed up the story of the bespectacled boy wizard on a train trip between London and Manchester. She finished the manuscript in 1995, writing much of it in ...

The author also left her mark on Church Cottage with "Joanne Rowling slept here circa 1982" scrawled on one wall. In 2019 Caernarfon Lettings Ltd successfully applied for planning permission to ...

Never mind Harry. By far the most intriguing character created by Joanne Rowling is JK Rowling. You’re now subscribed to all our newsletters. You can manage your subscriptions at any time from ...

The first print run of the hardcover was stopped, mid-printing, when it was discovered that ‘Joanne Rowling’ was printed on the copyright page instead of JK Rowling. Although only a small ...