JK Rowling Remembers the Moment Harry Potter Became a Wonder

Record-breaking author JK Rowling has recalled the moment she first realized that, for schoolboy wizard Harry Potter, she had created a miracle.

Rowling’s series of seven books about the trials and triumphs of Harry and his friends at Hogwarts School for Wizards has now sold more than 500 million copies worldwide and has been made into a movie worth more than $10 billion, but back in 1997, there. his first book Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (called ‘Sorcerer’s Stone’ in the US) was published, it all felt very different.

Rowling said The Sunday Times that it all sounds a bit blurry, until it won the Smarties Book Award in 1997.

Once she had her idea of ​​becoming a school witch, it took Rowling seven years to finish writing the first book and see it published. He said:

“I kept losing hope and putting it aside, but that happened little by little as I worked on it. At one point, even I, we got fired up, and I stopped doubting. I remember feeling happy after I wrote the first Quidditch game, which went out of the barn and was revised afterwards.”

He said he doesn’t even remember a time when he didn’t want to be a writer, and cited the first book he considered to be Busy, Busy World by Richard Scarry, and Dark Beauty by English novelist Anna Sewell.