J.K Rowling was born in Yate, Gloucestershire in 1965. As a child she wrote fantasy stories which she told to her younger sister, Di.She studied French and Classics at the University of Exeter and spent some time studying in Paris.
She came up with the idea for Harry Potter while on a train trip from Manchester to London.
Her stories centre around a teenage boy, Harry, who finds out that he is a wizard and heads off to study magic at a school called Hogwarts. Each book in the series follows Harry and his friends, Ron and Hermione, as they encounter new adventures in the wizarding world.
She uses a lot of her own experiences to help her with her writing. The first and most prominent of these was her own mother's death. Her descriptions in her novels of coping with loss and its affects are very real and profound. She also uses happier memories as inspiration in her books, such as the turquoise Ford Anglia that the Weasleys have. She based this on her best friend from school's car, which she used to drive around in a lot as a teenager.
Her books soon became a worldwide phenomenon. The last four books in the Harry Potter series consecutively broke records, both in the UK and the USA, as the fastest-selling books in history.
She now owns a house in Edinburgh, the city where she spent a lot of her time writing the Harry Potter series.
Edinburgh:
Edinburgh the beautiful capital city of Scotland, situated roughly in the centre of the country.
It is surrounded by a ring of extinct volcanic hills.The most famous of these is Arthur's Seat, a hill covered in rocky crags, that at 220m above sea level is the highest point of the city. Arthur's seat is a very popular tourist attraction in Edinburgh since it is very close to the city and relatively easy to climb. The formation itself resembles a crouched lion with the head and body made up of two extinct volcanoes. It was formed by volcanic activity millions of years ago and was eroded down into its current shape by glaciation during the ice age. In terms of geology, the hill is made up largely of basalt.
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