![]() ![]() When she was a young teenager, her great aunt, who Rowling said "taught classics and approved of a thirst for knowledge, even of a questionable kind," gave her a very old copy of Jessica Mitford's autobiography, Hons and Rebels. He got the measles and was visited by his friends, including a giant bee called Miss Bee." At the age of nine, Rowling moved to Church Cottage in the Gloucestershire village of Tutshill, close to Chepstow, Wales. Certainly the first story I ever wrote down (when I was five or six) was about a rabbit called Rabbit. She recalls that: "I can still remember me telling her a story in which she fell down a rabbit hole and was fed strawberries by the rabbit family inside it. Her headmaster at St Michael's, Alfred Dunn, has been suggested as the inspiration for the Harry Potter headmaster Albus Dumbledore.Īs a child, Rowling often wrote fantasy stories, which she would usually then read to her sister. She attended St Michael's Primary School, a school founded by abolitionist William Wilberforce and education reformer Hannah More. ![]() The family moved to the nearby village Winterbourne when Rowling was four. Rowling's sister Dianne was born at their home when Rowling was 23 months old. Her mother's paternal grandfather, Louis Volant, was awarded the Croix de Guerre for exceptional bravery in defending the village of Courcelles-le-Comte during the First World War. Her mother's maternal grandfather, Dugald Campbell, was born in Lamlash on the Isle of Arran. Her parents first met on a train departing from King's Cross Station bound for Arbroath in 1964. Her mother Anne was half-French and half-Scottish. Rowling was born to Peter James Rowling, a Rolls-Royce aircraft engineer, and Anne Rowling (née Volant), on 31 July 1965 in Yate, Gloucestershire, England, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Bristol. In a 2012 interview, Rowling noted that she no longer cared that people pronounced her name incorrectly. During the Leveson Inquiry she gave evidence under the name of Joanne Kathleen Rowling. She calls herself Jo and has said, "No one ever called me 'Joanne' when I was young, unless they were angry." Following her marriage, she has sometimes used the name Joanne Murray when conducting personal business. As she had no middle name, she chose K as the second initial of her pen name, from her paternal grandmother Kathleen Ada Bulgen Rowling. Anticipating that the target audience of young boys might not want to read a book written by a woman, her publishers demanded that she use two initials, rather than her full name. Rowling, pronounced like rolling, her name when her first Harry Potter book was published was simply Joanne Rowling. A number can also be found in Barnes & Noble stores throughout the United States.Although she writes under the pen name J.K. Some of their items are sold at WB Online store. They produced the Gringotts Currency set and, from that, the sizes of the coins compared to U.S. Other items in the collection include Lucius Malfoy's walking stick, Hermione Granger's Time-Turner, The Marauder's Map, a Wizard's Chess set and the Nimbus 2001 and Firebolt brooms. The Noble Collection is a large producer of Harry Potter merchandise, such as replicas of wands and broomsticks, pewter statues, and other Harry Potter based items (including a very detailed replica of the Philosopher's Stone). Please help the Harry Potter Wiki by adding notes and/or references to bring the page to a higher standard of quality. This article or section currently has few or no notes and references. Just because you're so narrow-minded you need to have everything shoved under your nose before you–" "There are plenty of eye-witness accounts. This article covers a subject that is part of the real world, and thus should not be taken as a part of the Harry Potter universe. This article is not part of the Harry Potter universe. ![]()
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