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She began work on the first book in 1990. The idea "just came: bang!"
From the beginning, she planned it as a seven- ____ 3 ______series because it would take place during the seven years between the ages of 11 to 17 to train a ______ 4 _____. Each book takes place during a year of Harry's life at ______ 5 _____, the school for wizards.
Rowling was told by her agent in 1995 that the first book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone did not have a ____6____future. He told her, "...you will never make a fortune out of writing children's books?"
Today, J. K. Rowling is one-woman ______ 7 ____ and the second richest woman in the United Kingdom after the queen.
J. K. Rowling was born near Bristol, England. Rowling confided that the ____ 8 ____ of Harry's friend Hermione is loosely based on herself at age eleven.
English was her favorite subject and she created serial stories for her friends at lunchtime, tales involving heroic deeds.
She attended Exeter University, and became a teacher. Between 1990 and 1994 she ____ 9____ to Portugal to teach English, married a journalist there, gave birth to their daughter, Jessica, divorced her husband, and returned to the United Kingdom. She settled in Edinburgh, Scotland.
She "could not afford child-care, so she could not go to work and lived off public assistance." Every day, to ______ 10____ her damp, unheated flat, she'd take the baby to the nearest cafe and write away while nursing a cup of coffee.
"Harry had a thin face, knobbly knees, black hair and bright green eyes," and "He wore round glasses held together with a lot of Scotch tape."
When Harry turns eleven, he is swept off by the giant ______14_____ , keeper of the keys at Hogwarts, on a flying motorcycle. Thus begins Harry's adventures and it is "a ripping good yarn." "The language is witty, the plotting tight, the imagination soars." It's fun.
Harry becomes a star at ____ 15 ____ , an aerial sort of soccer match played on broomsticks. He forms friendships with Ron and Hermione and encounters the ______16____ Draco Malfoy. He investigates the secrets of Hogwarts, battles evil, and discovers that he is his own person.