When J. K. Rowling got a job as a secretary-interpreter at Amnesty International, she could not imagine that this job would help her change the world by showing him an inquisitive and handsome wizard with the common name Harry.
Instructions
Step 1
First, like many before her, Mrs. Rowling used her office computer for her own purposes. Someone is playing office games, someone is texting with a girlfriend. And Joan, in between work, wrote down interesting thoughts that came to her mind. The result was short stories and sketches for others. Secondly, during this period she often had to travel by train. Nothing excites the imagination like a long journey and a measured swaying of the carriage. Then, for the first time, the image of a boy with magical abilities living among ordinary people was born in her head. Once upon a time, Joan's parents met at the King's Cross station, so the writer had a lot in common with the railway.
Step 2
Several years have passed, very difficult for Joan. She survived a divorce from her husband, lost her mother. She had a difficult period in financial matters. It is difficult to say whether Mrs. Rowling had the idea of magic as an opportunity to change something for the better in life. Maybe yes. In any case, many of the sad feelings that Rowling experienced during this time are reflected in her first book in the Harry Potter series. She definitely understood the feelings of a boy who was left without the support and care of loved ones. And even her favorite character celebrates her birthday on the same day as Rowling herself.
Step 3
After the first book was written, the question arose of what name to put on the cover. The writer feared that readers (most likely male children and teenagers) might not be interested in a book written by a woman. And then Rowling went to the trick, adding a second to her name - the name of her beloved grandmother. Now, from the initials, one could assume that the book was written by a man. And soon, tricks and tricks were not needed, since not only boys or their sisters, but also mothers and fathers, and even grandmothers and grandfathers read it avidly. The success was overwhelming.
Step 4
By the way, from childhood, not only the pseudonym of the writer, but also the name of the protagonist. Neighborhood kids named Potter, playing with little Joan, could not imagine how she would glorify them. From this we can conclude: do not pull the girls' pigtails. What if someday they will write about you in their bestseller?
Step 5
After the book "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" was published, the world has changed. As for J. K. Rowling herself, who overnight became a very rich woman from a man counting every penny, and for her readers, who plunged headlong into a new world. Mrs. Rowling's characters wandered from film adaptations to computer games. They could be seen on T-shirts and mugs. While the series of books was being written, Potter fans discussed the possible development of the plot, swore over their favorite characters. Role-playing games based on Harry Potter appeared, ordinary people (and most often those who have long passed the age of the characters in the book) happily cosplayed Harry himself, Luna Lovegood, Malfoy and his father. And, of course, the controversial figure of Professor Snape. On the island of Orlando, a park has been opened, on the territory of which both the school of wizardry and the adjacent village of Hogsmeade have been recreated.
Step 6
And, most importantly, the whole world was flooded with fanfiction, in which readers became writers, reviving their favorite characters, whom Mrs. Rowling mercilessly killed, or, arranging for them a happy life with others. But it all started with a train ride.
