When Joan Rowling got a job as secretary-translator at Amnesty International, she could not imagine that this particular work would help her change the world by revealing to him a curious and handsome wizard with the usual name Harry.
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First, like many before her, Mrs. Rowling used an office computer for her own purposes. Someone is playing office games, someone is texting with a girlfriend. And in the intervals between work, she wrote down interesting thoughts that came to her mind. It turned out small stories and sketches for others. Secondly, during this period she often had to ride a train. Nothing excites imagination so much as a long journey and a measured wiggle of a carriage. Then the image of a boy with magical abilities, living among ordinary people, was first born in her head. Once, the parents of Joan herself met at Kings Cross Station, so a lot of things connected the writer with the railway.
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Several years passed, very difficult for Joan. She survived a divorce from her husband, lost her mother. She had a difficult period in financial matters. It is difficult to say whether Mrs. Rowling had the idea of magic as an opportunity to change something in life for the better. Probably yes. In any case, many of the woeful feelings that Rowling had at that time were reflected in her first book in the Harry Potter series. She clearly understood the feelings of a boy who was left without the support and care of loved ones. And even her beloved character celebrates her birthday on the same day as Rowling herself.
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After the first book was written, the question arose about what name to put on the cover. The writer was afraid that readers (most likely male children and teenagers) might not be interested in a book written by a woman. And then Rowling went to the trick, adding a second to her name - the name of her beloved grandmother. Now, according to the initials, it could be assumed that the book was written by a man. And soon tricks and tricks were not needed, since not only boys or their sisters, but also mothers with dads, and even grandparents read it with enthusiasm. The success was overwhelming.
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By the way, from childhood, not only the pseudonym of the writer, but also the name of the protagonist. Neighboring kids named Potter, playing with little Joan, could not imagine how she would glorify them. From this we can conclude: do not pull the pigtails of girls. What if sometime they write about you in their best-selling book?
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After the book Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone was published, the world changed. As for Joan Rowling herself, who suddenly became a very rich woman from a person counting every penny, so for her readers who plunged headlong into the new world. Mrs. Rowling's characters wandered from film adaptations to computer games. They could be seen on T-shirts and mugs. Fans of the Potter, while writing a series of books, discussed the possible development of the plot, cursed over their favorite characters. There were role-playing games according to Harry Potter, ordinary people (more often than not, the characters of the book who had long since come of age) cosplayed with pleasure Harry himself, Luna Lovegood, Malfoy and his father. And, of course, the controversial figure of Professor Snape. A park has been opened on Orlando Island, on the territory of which both the school of magic and the adjoining village of Hogsmeade have been recreated.
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And, most importantly, the whole world was filled with fanfics, in which readers became writers, reviving the favorite characters whom Mrs. Rowling mercilessly killed, or, arranging them a happy life with others. But it all started with a train ride.
