MILAN – Which book do you prefer among those you wrote
What does the K of your middle name mean
Harry Potter was really your first book
Here are 18 curiosities about JK Rowling, one of the most famous authors in the world, which perhaps not everyone knows. 1 – There is a very personal reason why King’s Cross station plays a key role in the Harry Potter novels
It is well known how the famous train to Hogwarts leaves from platform 9 and three quarters of King’s Cross station. This is a special place for JK Rowling as her parents James and Anne first met here when they were both 18 years old. The two married the following year and remained together until Anne’s death at age 45 from multiple sclerosis.2 – In the English-speaking world, her name is continually pronounced
incorrectly. Rowling’s correct pronunciation in English (as in Italian) rhymes with the word “bowling”. In English-speaking countries it is instead pronounced incorrectly, as if it remained with the word “howling”. She the author stated that she gave up and stopped correcting others for this crippled pronunciation. 3 – she He wrote her first story at the age of 6
Rowling said she wrote her first story – a brilliant short story about a rabbit named “Rabbit” – at the age of six! The precocious author had her mother view her work, what a comment with an “Oh, how cute!”, Like any parent would, “it’s really good!”. Rowling revealed how she thought at the time, “If it’s really that good, why don’t you get it published
.” She also acknowledged that they were rather unusual thoughts for a six-year-old … 4 – Her favorite literary heroine is Jo March, of “Little Women”
It was easy for Rowling to identify with little Jo: temper, stubbornness and a burning ambition to become a writer. She remembers maybe someone 5 – she She had to wear a disguise to buy herself a wedding dress
JK Rowling had to resort to a disguise in order not to be recognized once in her life: it was in 2001, to buy the wedding dress for the wedding with Neil Murray. 6 – she owns a rare first edition of a novel by her favorite author…
Although money is no longer a problem, the Harry Potter author seldom “oversteps” her personal expenses. She stated that she had bought a rather expensive pair of earrings on one occasion; feeling terribly guilty, she immediately donated an equivalent amount to charity. One of the most precious objects she owns is a rare first edition of a Jane Austen novel (we don’t know which one). “Jane Austen is my favorite author,” she said. “I read all of her books so many times that I lost count.” 7 – What was the surname of your best childhood friends
Of her Potter of hers!
During her childhood spent in Winterbourne, just outside Bristol, Rowling told how she had befriended two brothers: and guess what
Their last name was Potter! She the author has revealed that she has always preferred their surname to hers, which was continually mangled by way of a “rolling pin” mockery (transl. Mattarello). 8 – What literary character
“Elizabeth Bennet” would have liked to be, said JK Rowling. “Obviously.” 9 – she wanted the last word of the entire Harry Potter saga to be “scar”
For a long time the author had planned to make sure that the final word of the famous wizard saga was “scar”. Over time she then changed her mind, opting for a more serene: “she was all right”. 10 – The K in her name and a tribute to her grandmother
Born Joanne Rowling (as reported on her birth certificate), I adopted the abbreviation JK on the advice of the editors: they believed that an abbreviation, instead of a female name, would have attracted more young male readers. The author decided to add a K of hers to her first name, in memory of her grandmother Kathleen. 11 – Hermione’s character is inspired by the author herself
“Many of the characters in the novel are somewhat fictionalized and ‘amplified’ versions of people I’ve really known in my life,” Rowling said. “For Hermione, on the other hand, I found inspiration in myself: Hermione is just like I was at the age of 11. Of course, much more intelligent … “12 – The clinical depressive stage that Rowling went through at 25 inspired the figures of the Dementors
At the age of 25, JK Rowling found herself a young single mother who came out of a marriage that she defined as “catastrophic”. Completely broke, with a daughter to raise and without the possibility of offering her anything more than a simple survival, I enter a depressive state that drains her happiness from existence and living, denying her the ability to feel any feeling. A little about what the Dementors are able to do… 13 – she Named her daughter Jessica in homage to civil rights activist Jessica Mitford
“She has been my hero since I was 14,” Rowling wrote in the “Telegraph”. “When I heard the story of how Jessica Mitford ran away from home at the age of 19 to fight in the Spanish Civil War, she completely won me over.” 14 – The author (dead or alive) who would like to know and…
In reality Rowling has not been able to make a single decision on this subject, opting for an ex-aequo: Colette and Charles Dickens. With the first because she could speak freely on any subject and because the author would have a lot to teach her, having had an extraordinary life. Dickens, on the other hand, was one of the greatest storytellers of all time, and Rowling would have liked to offer him endless questions and advice on novels and writing.15 – Her favorite book among those she wrote is…
JK Rowling’s heart is divided into three: “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone”, because it was the origin of everything, it changed her life. “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”, because it was the end of a wonderful journey. “The vacant seat”, because it was a new beginning. 16 – She Didn’t Read “50 Shades Of Gray”
Rowling had to promise her editor about her that she wouldn’t. 17 – Her favorite sport is baseball
The author said she took inspiration for Quidditch from American sports. She wanted a wizarding sport that was very spectacular and that she had more than one ball in play at the same time. According to Rowling, the “Muggle” sport that most resembles Quidditch is baseball, her favorite among American ones. 18 – she still thinks a lot about Harry Potter characters
In a recent interview Rowling said she often dreams of Harry Potter characters. “It was something that never happened to me while I was writing their stories,” she said. “They were so present in my conscious mind that I didn’t need them. Since I have been writing stories about other characters, however, Dumbledore, Harry and others often come to see me in dreams. “
