![]() Rowling first had the idea for Harry Potter while delayed on a train travelling from Manchester to London King’s Cross in 1990. Her Classics studies would come in very handy later when she was thinking up all the spells in Harry Potter, some of which are based on Latin! Joanne went to school at Wyedean Comprehensive School and then went on to study French and Classics at the University of Exeter. Then when she was eleven she wrote a novel about seven cursed diamonds and the people who owned them. She wrote her first book at the age of six – a story about a rabbit called Rabbit. Joanne grew up surrounded by books as her mum and dad loved reading – she says, ‘I lived for books … I was your basic common-or-garden bookworm, complete with freckles and National Health spectacles.’ From an early age Joanne wanted to be a writer. She, her sister and her parents lived in Winterbourne, Gloucestershire, until Joanne was nine, when the family moved to Tutshill, near Chepstow. Dianne, her younger sister, was born almost two years later and Joanne’s earliest childhood memory is of Dianne’s arrival. Joanne Rowling was born on 31st July 1965. Joanne Rowling – the girl who grew up to write Harry Potter. ![]()
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