J.K Rowling_The Author of Harry Potter

   J. K. Rowling is a British story writer, playwright, producer, and a humanitarian. She was born in yate, England.

Education & Career

   She earned a degree in French and Classics at the University of Exeter. She had worked at Amnesty International in London.

J.K Rowling

Prominent Work

   She is famous for writing the Harry Potter series, for which she has not only won multiple awards and has sold more than 500 million copies, but even there has also been a popular film series of the same name.

Harry Potter

Idea of Harry Potter

   The idea for Harry Potter came to her mind during a train to London that was delayed for four hours in 1990 and she avail the idea by writing that on her napkin.

Death of her mother

   In December 1990, her mother Anne died after ten years suffering from multiple sclerosis. She was a teen when her mother was identified, she said,

  She was very fit, she was a non-smoker, non-drinker, and I say all of this because of course then for her to be diagnosed at 35 with an illness that would kill her was just the most enormous shock to us and everyone who knew her.

Reflecting on her passing, Rowling said,

My mother was a passionate reader, and she would have been excited whatever I did, if I succeeded at anything, but particularly to be a writer, she would have considered to be a very valuable thing

 She said. But

She never knew about Harry Potter  I started writing it six months before she died, so that is painful. I wish she’d known.

J.K Rowling's childhood house

After death

   The death of her mother heavily affected Rowling's writing, and she controlled her own feelings of loss by writing about Harry's own feelings of loss in greater detail in the first book.

Feeling as a failure

   Seven years after graduating from university, Rowling used to see herself as a failure. Her marriage failed, and she was jobless with a child dependent on her, but she described her failure as kind of liberating and letting her to emphasis on writing.

Depression & suicidal thoughts

   During this period, Rowling was diagnosed with clinical depression and contemplated suicide. But she used her illness to write the characters known as Dementors, soul-sucking creatures introduced in the third book.

Dementors of Harry Potter

Receiving aid

   Rowling signed up for welfare aids in which she describes her economic status as being 

poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain, without being homeless

Ups & downs

  There had been several ups and downs in her life. She had faced a long seven years period during which he saw the death of her mother, birth of her first child, divorce from her first husband, and relative poverty. The original HARRY POTTER manuscript was rejected by 12 publishing houses before Bloomsbury picked it up.

First Book

One of cafe in which J.K Rowling use to write

   But all this didn’t stop when she wrote her first novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, which was published in 1997.

Only 500 copies were published of the first part of Harry Potter.

Real name

   The publishers feared that the targeted group of young boys might not buy a book written by a woman author. So, they requested that Rowling should use two initials, rather than revealing her first name.Her real name is Joanne Rowling. She has no middle name. She then borrowed the "K" from her grandmother, Kathleen.

She calls herself Jo.

J.K Rowling writer of Harry Potter

Being billionaire

   She progressed from being broke to being the world's first billionaire author. She lost her billionaire rank after donating much of her earnings to charity, but remains one of the wealthiest people in the world.

She is the UK's best-selling living author, with sales in excess of £238 million

   There are six sequels, of which the last, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, was released in the year 2007.

   This inspiring story told us of never ever giving yourself up.

J.K Rowling

Fantastic Beast

Fantastic Beasts written by J.K Rowling

There has been two films on her another novel series Fantastic Beast and three more are yet to come.

Facts

• Do you know JK Rowling and Harry Potter share the same birthday July 31st
• Rowling approved overall scripts and was a producer on the final films.
• Harry Potter is the best-selling book series in history
•  She has also written under the pen name Robert Galbraith for her adult novel The Cuckoo’s calling.
• In 1982, Rowling took the entrance exams for Oxford University but was not accepted and earned a BA in French and Classics at the University of Exeter
• Rowling recalls doing little work and she used to prefer reading Dickens and Tolkien (famous books Lord of the rings, The Hobbit)
• JK Rowling went from being unemployed to becoming a multi-millionaire in five years
• J.K Rowling's parents encountered at King's Cross Station, the place where Harry takes the Hogwarts Express each year

J.K Rowling parents met at King's cross station,
place where Harry takes Hogwarts express.

• Rowling has stated in an interview, that her own personal favorites books written by her are twisted between Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and The Casual Vacancy.

Quidditch

• You may not believe it but Quidditch has become an actual sport in the muggle world. There are teams at several universities and even a world cup tournament. Although there’s no flying involved.

Quidditch;An actual muggle world sport now

• She based the character of Hermione Granger on her 11 years old self.

Hermione Granger

Quotes

• If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

• Sometimes, you have to stop trying to force it, walk away and let your subconscious show you the way. Fill up on life for a while.
• If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; and if you choose to identify not only with the powerful but with the powerless; and if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped transform for the better.

We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.

• The world is full of wonderful things you haven’t seen yet. Don’t ever give up on the chance of seeing them.
• You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
• It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
• You place too much importance on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

On failure

• Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I’ve met people who don’t want to try for fear of failing.

• We’re all human, aren’t we? Every human life is worth the same and worth saving.
• We have to choose between what is right, and what is easy.
• Secretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.
• Imagination is the foundation of all invention and innovation.
• Destiny is a name often given in review to choices that had dramatic consequences.
• It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

On Poverty

• Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is something on which to pride yourself. But poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

• Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.
• Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.
• We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.
• It is no good and evil, there are only power and those too weak to seek it.
• Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
• What’s most important in a friendship? 

Tolerance and loyalty.

• We can’t choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.
• The truth is always easier than a lie or an evasion -easier to deal with and easier to live with.
• I find that discussing an idea out loud is often the way to kill it stone dead.
• Achievable goals are the first step to self-improvement.
• Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
• The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.
• I’ve been writing since I was six. It is a compulsion, so I can’t really say where the desire came from; I’ve always had it. My breakthrough with the first book came through persistence because a lot of publishers turned it down!
• I have never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. Never. What’s to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time and I am quite proud that I got out of that.