![]() Rowling would walk around Edinburgh with her daughter in a stroller, then zip into a café to write the moment the baby fell asleep. The character of Harry and the world of Hogwarts had been taking up space in her head for about five years at that point. She couldn’t afford daycare for her young daughter, so she chose to pursue writing instead. Joanne Rowling was indeed struggling to make ends meet. As the books gained popularity, various news stories came out about the author: a single mother on welfare, scrawling her children’s novel on napkins and envelopes, suddenly shooting to literary stardom. Potter’s beginnings are not quite as humble as many a journalist would have you believe. How did this genre-busting phenomenon even begin? The publication of the Harry Potter books has unquestionably changed children’s literature and arguably the world. It’s Harry’s birthday as well as that of his creator, J.K. ![]() ![]() July 31 may seem an unremarkable day to some, but not to fans of Harry Potter.
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