Rainy Days of Harry’s Mother
Today Joanne Kathleen Rowling is the first richest world writer. Her fortune is estimated at USD 1 bln. She is married happily and has three children, son David and two daughters, Jessica and Mackenzie. However, Harry Potter was born in the gloomy days of her life…
On 30 December 1990, the writer’s mother died. Rowling considers that period of her life to be the most difficult. Still due to this, feelings of Harry Potter to his late parents turned to be more deep and tragic. It was that period when Joanne wrote a chapter of The Mirror of Erised, where Harry saw an image of his parents alive.
First marriage of the writer with the Portuguese journalist, ending in a dramatic divorce, turned to be one more misfortune. Alone with her daughter, Rowling moves to Edinburgh. At any costs, she solves to write the Harry Potter book. Depression and narrow cold room made that problem difficult to solve. At those days, she created dementors, creatures drawing all the joy out from men, leaving only troubles and despair.
Almost each and every evening Joanne visited the nearest juke house where she drank tea or water and warmed her Jessica up. While the daughter was asleep, Joanne wrote one chapter of the future novel after another.
There is a memorial plaque in that café, saying Joanne Kathleen Rowling wrote several chapters of her Harry Potter novel here, on the first floor. The present master intends to make a museum there.
In Y1995, the book was finished. Almost a year was gone until the agent informed Joanne, that Bloomsbury Publishing was ready to publish her book for a fee of USD 4 K. All the other publishing houses refuted her book as an unwanted story of a sentimental housewife.
