I’ve posted more of our videos from the Wizarding World of Harry Potter celebrations. This time we have Warwick Davis conducting the Hogwarts Chorus to Something Wicked this way Comes. There’s John Williams conducting the Orlando Philharmonic Symphony. The cast show up in the Knight Bus and the Ford Anglia to help open up Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry with some magic and a lot of fireworks! We also have more of the interviews from the press conference with the cast. Check back tomorrow for videos and photos from the public grand opening of the Wizarding World!
Here you will find out everything on Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling.
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J. K. (Joanne Kathleen - who goes by ‘Jo’) Rowling was born on 31 July 1965, near Bristol, England, and grew up in Chipping, Grent. She has always enjoyed writing, and wrote her first book at age six titled “Rabbit”. She attended Exeter University.
When starting the Harry Potter series, she was going through a very rough time, as she was recently divorced from former husband Jorges Arantes, unemployed, receiving assistance from welfare, and had an infant daughter. “I was very low,” she states, “and I had to achieve something. Without the challenge, I would have gone stark raving mad.” She began writing the Harry Potter books while on a train trip. She had not hoped for any type of stardom, just enough money to help support her daughter, and, if she was real lucky, see her own book on a bookshelf. She continued to write the books in cafes.
She has a daughter named Jessica from her first marriage. In 2001, she married Dr. Neil Murray, and became pregnant soon afterward. On March 23, 2003, she gave birth to son, David. She and David welcomed their next child, McKenzie Jean Rowling Murray, into the world on 24 January 2005.
You can visit her official site here.
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Where you can write to J. K. Rowling:
J. K. Rowling
c/o Scholastic Inc.
555 Broadway
New York, NY 10012
USA
or
J. K. Rowling
c/o Bloomsbury Publishing
38 Soho Square
London
W1V 5DF
UK