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J.K. Rowling Talks About Heartbreak That Shaped Harry Potter
10-Jan-2006
Written by: David Pepose
Author opens up about her inspiration.
In a recent interview with Tatler magazine, author J.K. Rowling, speaks of the heartbreak that came from the death of her mother, and how that persuaded her to make Harry Potter, the lead character in her blockbuster children’s series, an orphan.
Rowling, then 25, was writing the first book (“Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”) when her mother Anne, 45, died of multiple sclerosis. "I know I was writing Harry Potter at the moment my mother died, said Rowling, adding “I had never told her about Harry Potter.”
Rowling has also admitted some trepidation regarding her newfound fame. "I've never said this before, but when I was repeatedly asked, 'How are you coping?' I would say, 'Fine'” she admits. “I was lying to myself at the time. It was as though I had lived under a rock for a long time and suddenly someone had lifted it off and was shining a torch on me.”
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