All about Harry Potter

It all started on Platform 9 3/4

So how did JK Rowling actually came up with the idea of Harry Potter? Read this to find out.

"It was 1990. My then boyfriend and I had decided to move up to Manchester together. After a weekend's flat-hunting, I was travelling back to London on my own on a crowded train, and the idea for Harry Potter simply fell into my head.

I had been writing almost continuously since the age of 6 but I had never been so excited about an idea before. To my immense frustration, I didn't have a pen that worked and I was too shy to ask anybody if I could borrow one...

I did not have a functioning pen with me, but I do think this was probably a good thing. I simply sat and thought, for four (delayed train) hours, while all the details bubbled up in my brain, and this scrawny, black haired, bespectacled boy who didn't know he was a wizard became more and more real to me.

Perhaps if I had slowed down the ideas to capture them on paper, I might have stifled some of them (although I sometimes do wonder, idly, how much of what I imagined on that journey I had forgotten by the time I actually got my hands on a pen). I began to write 'Philosopher's Stone' that very evening, although those first few pages bear no resemblance to anything in the finished book." - JK Rowling