Harry Potter

1. Built characters off own life

   Annotations:

   • "Hermione [a bookish, know-it-all Harry Potter character] is loosely based on me. She's a caricature of me when I was eleven, which I'm not particularly proud of"; Ron Weasley off friend Sean
2. rejection

   Annotations:

   • first three publishing houses and oxford
   1. publisher rejection

      Annotations:

      • 1. slow to start 2. fat boy as bully 3. not shown through Harry's mind 4. immediate characters are not likeable
3. taught children in Porto, Portugal 1992
4. 1990s delayed trainride
5. 2001 charity (proceeds from fantastic beasts and where to find them/ quiddich thru ages

Annotations:

•  I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realized, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter, and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

1. Mother's Death from ms 1990s

   Annotations:

   • "I was writing Harry Potter at the moment my mother died. I had never told her about Harry Potter."[21]Rowling said this death heavily affected her writing[21] and that she introduced much more detail about Harry's loss in the first book, because she knew about how it felt.[47]
2. miscarriage
3. 1995 divorce

Annotations:

• "poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain, without being homeless

1. Oprah endorsement
   1. 500 fp 1997
      1. 1998 10 000 hp2 books published fp
         1. 1998 HP1 republished 50 000 copies fp
            1. top 3 New York Times bestseller list 1999, 250 000 copies fp
         2. 2003 Hp5 released, 6.4mil copies fp (3 times first volume size)
            1. 2005 HP6 released 10.8 mil fp
               1. 2007 HP7 released worldwide
                  1. 67 languages published
      2. 2000 HP4 5 mil fp; believed to be end of fad
2. Bloomsbury Press (small independent) publishes book 1996

   Annotations:

   • Christopher Cunningham publisher's daughter loved it, published because of this
3. 1997 Scholastic buys book and gives Rowling 100000$
4. sent manuscript to agent who responded very quickly (christopher little)

1. 2004 rejected Stouffer's appeal

1. death
   1. beings with parent death
   2. search for immortality