4 things that inspired JK Rowling to write Harry Potter

Joan was the older sister and far from being the most beloved daughter in her family. According to Rowling, her parents did not love her and, at times, out of frustration, she asked them if they would be upset if she died. Father and mother answered in the negative. Joan closed herself in and began to read a lot of books. From childhood, the future writer noticed several points at once, which she later used in Harry Potter. For example, the Forest of Dean in the village of Tutshill served as the basis for the Forbidden Forest. Next to the Rowling family lived a family with a surname now familiar to tens and hundreds of millions of people around the world - the Potters.

It is also possible that Lily and Petunia Evans are in some way based on Joan, who was not loved by her parents, and her sister Dianna. However, Dianna also did not get everything she wanted, but at least her parents did not admit to her complete indifference.

In addition, Joan, like many other teenagers, had problems at school due to more active and obnoxious children. A character named Pansy Parkinson, who often flickered around Draco, Joan composed the collective image of those girls who offended her at school.

The very same Joan, closed in herself, buried in books, is the prototype of Hermione. Rowling has repeatedly admitted that she wrote off Hermione herself.

It is also likely that Joan transferred her poor life in her youth and adulthood to the Weasleys, although Ron's family, unlike Rowling, is friendly and loving.

Worthy of mention are Joan's walks through the cemeteries, no matter how strange they may sound. Rowling has been to various cemeteries more than once, read the names and wrote down some, and then used them in Harry Potter.

4 PHOTOS

1. Inspiration

Often the most interesting thoughts come instantly and at the most unexpected moment. JK Rowling's moment was on the train from Manchester to London in 1990. During the trip, images of three children suddenly appeared in Joan's mind, whom she later named Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger. The worst thing for Rowling was that she could forget something since she did not have a pen and a piece of paper, and Joan was embarrassed to ask anyone, so throughout the rest of the way she kept her idea in her head and even tried to develop it, and upon arrival home, she immediately began to write.

2. Death and suffering

During the writing of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, J.K. Rowling experienced the death of her mother, with whom she was slightly closer than her abusive father. Despite a bad childhood, this event hit her hard, and she transferred all her experiences and pain to the Philosopher's Stone. At the center of all suffering was Harry Potter, who lost his parents and lived for 11 years surrounded by self-hatred. Also, thanks to her experiences, Joan created a mirror of Erinage, in which Harry saw his parents and even thought that they might be alive. Only Dumbledore explained to him what this mirror was for and why it was impossible to look into it for a long time. It can be said that the Mirror of Erinage in Dumbledore's words reflects real life.

3. Depression

JK Rowling's first husband turned out to be a domestic tyrant. Because of this, she had to take her little daughter and move in with her sister, but Joan could not live with her for a long time, so she rented an apartment and started living with her daughter on state benefits, and then suddenly realized what she had done with her life - she did not there was nothing behind him, but there was a child to whom everything had to be given. At the same time, Joan developed depression and was diagnosed with clinical depression. Rowling was in a depressed state and she always had a fear that her daughter might suddenly just not wake up. In this state, Joan wrote the book "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", and also came up with characters for the "Prisoner of Azkaban" - the Dementors. Joan admitted that the Dementors were born during a period of depression and literally symbolize all the worst that happened in her life.