Why did J.K. Rowling start writing Harry Potter?

Answer 1

J.K. Rowling had a very bad childhood. her mother died when she was15 and her relation with her father was not all that good. So the Harry Potter series has been described as a giant attempt to reclaim a lost childhood.

Answer 2

The idea for Harry Potter and Hogwarts came to her when she was delayed on a train for four hours. She states that the idea just fell into her head fully formed, with all the plots, characters and story bubbling away in her head.

Answer 3

JK Rowling started writing the first Harry Potter book, the Philosopher's Stone (aka Sorcerer's Stone American title) in 1990.

She was broke, on the dole, and had a young child to support. But she had a dream, so she wrote her first book in long hand, on paper, in a coffee shop.

Answer 4

J.K. Rowling has said on numerous occasions that the idea for the series quite literally popped into her head during a train ride from Manchester to London. The train had been delayed for four hours, and by the time she reached her destination, she essentially had the entire idea of a young boy named Harry attending a wizarding school in her head.

She incorporated many characteristics of people she knew into some of the characters, and the subsequent death of her mother and her deep depression heavily influenced the messages about death, but for the most part, the idea "came fully formed."

Answer 5

Although J.K. Rowling began to write Harry Potter before her mother died, she has stated that her mothers death was her influence. Had her mother not died the whole series would have been different. Rowling said that she didn't think she was wrong in saying that had her mother not died, there wouldn't be a Harry Potter.

Answer 6

she was on a train to London and the idea popped into her head and she wrote it down and that's how the famous Harry Potter series was started

Answer 7

J.k. Rowling thought of Harry Potter when she was on a late Britain train.

Answer 8

Her childhood.

Answer 9

she feels like it. and people like it.