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Dec 15, 2020 · The red-headed lovable Ron was inspired by Rowling's best friend Sean Harris, a British army officer. Rowling said she "never set out to describe Sean in Ron, but Ron has a Sean-ish turn of...
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Nov 7, 2018 · They delight adults and children alike. Yet while J.K. Rowling’s words might take you to a realm of pure fantasy, some of the ideas and characters within the books have their roots firmly grounded in ancient myths and folklore — and some are based on objects from the real world.
Nov 22, 2016 · Nicolas Flamel was a real person, and many of Rowling’s fantastic beasts she borrowed from elsewhere – including from the ancient world, writes Natalie Haynes.
- ROWLING AND HARRY SHARE A BIRTHDAY. They both blow out candles on July 31 (happy birthday, JKR!). And that’s not the only influence Rowling had on her characters: She’s said that Hermione is a bit like her when she was younger, and her favorite animal is an otter—which is, of course, Hermione’s patronus.
- SHE INVENTED THE NAMES OF THE HOGWARTS HOUSES ON THE BACK OF A BARF BAG. In 2000, Scholastic gave schoolchildren across the U.S. the opportunity to ask Rowling questions about Harry Potter.
- EARLY ON, ROWLING WROTE A SKETCH OF THE FINAL CHAPTER OF THE FINAL BOOK. Rowling calls the idea that she had the first chapter of Deathly Hallows written and locked away in the safe “rubbish.”
- THE DEMENTORS ARE BASED ON ROWLING’S STRUGGLE WITH DEPRESSION AFTER HER MOTHER’S DEATH. Rowling’s mother, who had multiple sclerosis, died in 1990, after which Rowling suffered a period of depression.
Nov 16, 2021 · The real magic of Harry Potter: 15 details the wizarding world borrows from history. To mark the 20-year anniversary of the release of the film Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, Dr Hetta Howes investigates the real history that inspired JK Rowling’s magical world….
May 13, 2020 · J.K. Rowling, author of the beloved Harry Potter series, created the best-selling book series of all time. But her success was not an inevitability. Rowling was an unemployed single mother on...
Can you believe it's 20 years since the publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone? Joanne Rowling, as she was known then, dreamed up the story of the bespectacled boy wizard on a...
