When did J.K. Rowling think of Harry Potter?

Answer 1

She said 'Harry' has always been my favourite boy's name, so if my daughter had been a son, he would have been Harry Rowling. Then I would have had to choose a different name for "Harry" in the books, because it would have been too cruel to name him after my own son. "Potter" was the surname of a family who used to live near me when I was seven years old and I always liked the name, so I borrowed it.

Answer 2

J.K. Rowling didn't think about Harry Potter.She said that the idea simply fell into her head.It came into her head in 1990.It got published in 1997 in the U.K..It got published in 1998 in the United States.

Answer 3

J.K. Rowling first had the idea for Harry Potter while on a delayed train journey in 1990. She started writing the first book, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" shortly after that.

Answer 4

She was on a train and she says that he just walked in to her head fully formed. But she wrote the first book on napkins in a Scotish caffe still around today.

Answer 5

Ron is inspired in J.K. Rowling's best friend Sean Harris. Like Harris is to Rowling, Ron is "always there" when Harry needs him.