When and Where did J.K. Rowling get the ideas for Harry Potter?

Answer 1

J.K Rowling thought up the idea of Harry Potter on a delayed train from Manchester to London of course she was annoyed by the fact that she didn't have a pen and was to shy to ask for one so she sat and thought for a while!

Answer 2

J.K. Rowling was on a delayed train in Manchester when she came up with the idea for Harry Potter. She said the idea popped into her head, and she began writing notes on a napkin until she was able to get to paper.

Answer 3

J.K. Rowling has never gone into detail about how she came up with the idea of Hogwarts. Setting the school in a castle probably came as a result of her being from the UK where there are many castles.

Answer 4

The idea just occured to her on a train journey. She says that Harry

"Just strolled into my mind, fully formed."

Answer 5

J.K. Rowling was on a delayed train from Manchester to London when she said the idea popped into her head. Rowling began writing the book that evening, although it changed a lot since then.

Answer 6

on a train journey from kings cross to Edinburgh

Answer 7

Authors usually get ideas from everywhere, J.K Rowling thought of the Hogwarts Express because she was stuck on the train while writing.

Answer 8

J.K. Rowling argued with her boyfriend then invented Quidditch in a small hotel room in Manchester.

Answer 9

In 1990 J.K. Rowling was on a train going to Manchester when the idea of "Harry Potter" - a schoolboy wizard - "fell into her head".