The Moment Harry Potter Was Born (1998)

On 23 July 1998, acclaimed author JK Rowling described to ITN's Nick Glass the precise moment at which Harry Potter was born – in her mind, at least. Speaking in Nicolson's Café in Edinburgh about the enormous success of the Harry Potter series, Rowling described the moment as "the purest stroke of inspiration I've ever had in my life". Weeks before, the second of what was to be a seven-book series had been released, and Rowling was working on the third. Meanwhile, major production companies were jockeying for the rights to make the Harry Potter series into a film franchise. The rest is history.

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[rapidstress]

We all know a voice in her head just went "You're a wizard harry"

[souravshaw]

Its not doubt, she will go down in history books, legend❤

[Christine--sb]

She made a wonderful franchise and she stands up for girls and women I love her so much one of the few good celebrities out there ❤❤❤❤

[MaxwellGallardo-lb]

If it wasn’t for her ….there would be no Harry Potter just like no Stanley no marvel

[Itsjustjazzduh]

I’ve had this about a place called SPOON. I dream about it all the time.

[jonasdauerbrenner]

She looks quite differently today lol. Money works wonders

[james]

I have all these weird characters I think about and maybe even play around with stories sometimes. But I couldn't begin to remember the exact moment I first thought of one even 5 years previous.

There's always a chance she really remembers but she is a writer and sometimes telling a simple story is better than saying I don't remember he's just always been with me

[sarahegan]

1990 is the year Daniel Radcliffe was born 😮

[KavehTorabiZadeh]

Thank you Mrs. Rowling ! The Force is very strong with you !

[helentully]

My teacher is an author He writes books called the adventures of jack and adam and hes not nearly as inspirational as she is

[alokpandey]

You can see that she is afraid not to leak that it is real and the ministry of magiic is sending her to azkaban for telling the truth

[everexpanding]

Same thing happened to Tolkien with the Hobbit.

[rainerdietel]

"Inspiration out of nowhere" she calls it, although Harry Potter is more or less copy and paste of "The hopeless witch".

[BranTheBald]

She definitely spent some money on making herself more attractive

[JasonBrendan-tdqb]

How does that even happen….. that makes no fucking sense

[HanWELLS-tu]

Maybe I'll pick a man persona
Han

[HanWELLS-tu]

Freedom of speech act
On plagerism and inspiration
JK said she was on a train full
Test for a blank writer to go on a long train journey

I suggest a pen

[IGOR-ykll]

dont lie jk, there are characters that are clearly not original

[LilyPoe-gs]

Solo se que no se nada me vuelvo a la cueva Shrodinger 8M

[Graeme-hz]

She knows she knows .I think of you as the mouth piece I never was loved you .0