Joanne Rowling, more famously known as J.K. Rowling, made the most of a train delay while traveling in 1990. According to Bloomsbury, it was on this delayed train, while traveling from Manchester to London King Cross, that the idea for Harry Potter was born. During an interview with Scholastic, J.K. Rowling said, "Harry just sort of strolled into my head, on a train journey. He arrived very fully formed. It was as though I was meeting him for the first time." When asked if the idea came from something she saw on the train, she said, "I have no idea where the idea came from, it just fell into my head!"
Once the idea was born, J.K. Rowling spent the next several years planning out each of the seven books in the series. However, she told Scholastic that she didn't plan the specific details in advance. "I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write. It's more fun," she said.
According to Newsweek, after planning out the series, J.K. Rowling completed her first manuscript for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in 1995 -- 5 years after the idea originated.
Further reading:
https://harrypotter.bloomsbury.com/uk/jk-rowling-biography/
https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/articles/teaching-content/jk-rowling-interview/
http://www.newsweek.com/how-jk-rowling-created-harry-potter-510042
According to Bloomsbury, J.K. Rowling came up with the idea for Harry Pottery when she was delayed during travel.
In 1990, J.K. Rowling was traveling by train from Manchester to King's Cross after looking for a new place to live with the person she was dating then. The trip was delayed and during that time, she thought of the idea for Harry Potter. Rowling says:
I took the train back to London on my own and the idea for Harry Potter fell into my head. . . . Coincidentally, I didn't have a pen and was too shy to ask anyone for one on the train, which frustrated me at the time, but when I look back it was the best thing for me. It gave me the full four hours on the train to think up all the ideas for the book.
According to Newsweek, Rowling completed the first Harry Potter manuscript in 1995. It was published two years later. The last book in the main series was published in 2007.
According to Biography, Rowling's book was green-lighted by Bloomsbury because the daughter of the chairman of the publishing house read the first chapter. She liked it so much, she wanted more. They go on to say that her editor at the time told her it was "impossible to make a living writing children's books." Rowling also says parts of her life inspired the tone of the story and that the death of her mother inspired parts of Harry's character and made the series darker.
https://harrypotter.bloomsbury.com/uk/jk-rowling-biography/
https://www.biography.com/news/jk-rowling-harry-potter-facts
https://www.newsweek.com/how-jk-rowling-created-harry-potter-510042
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