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To the Dursleys' fury, Hagrid also reveals the truth about Harry's past. Harry did not receive the scar on his forehead in a car-crash; it is really the mark of the great dark sorcerer Voldemort, who killed Harry's mother and father but mysteriously couldn't kill him, even though he was a baby at the time. Harry is famous among the witches and wizards who live in secret all over the country because Harry's miraculous survival marked Voldemort's downfall.
So Harry, who has never had friends or family worth the name, sets off for a new life in the wizarding world. He takes a trip to London with Hagrid to buy his Hogwarts equipment robes, wand, cauldron, beginners' draft and potion kit and shortly afterwards, sets off for Hogwarts from Kings Cross Station platform nine and three quarters to follow in his parents' footsteps.
Harry makes friends with Ronald Weasley sixth in his family to go to Hogwarts and tired of having to use second-hand spellbooks and Hermione Granger cleverest girl in the year and the only person in the class to know all the uses of dragon's blood.
She started dating a man named Jorge Arantes, became pregnant, and moved into a small two-bedroom apartment with Arantes' mother. The couple miscarried, but they married in October Rowling later gave birth to a daughter, Jessica, in July The rocky marriage lasted a mere 13 months, and Rowling and Jessica returned to the UK to live in Edinburgh, Scotland, not long after.
She carried three chapters of "Harry Potter" in her suitcase with her. Living in a cramped apartment with her daughter, jobless and penniless, Rowling fell into a deep depression and admits she even considered suicide.
By every usual standard, I was the biggest failure I knew," Rowling said during a Harvard University commencement speech. Rowling received "loads" of rejections from book publishers when she first sent out her "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" manuscript. She recently tweeted that she pinned her first rejection letter to her kitchen wall because it gave her something in common with her favorite writers. Bloomsbury finally gave book the green light in Rowling added the "K" to her pen name for Kathleen, her paternal grandmother at the publisher's request, since women's names were found to be less appealing to the target audience of young boys.
Her editor also suggested she get a teaching job, since she was unlikely to earn a living from children's books. To cope with her hurtle to stardom, Rowling says she sought therapy. I knew no one who'd ever been in the public eye. I didn't know anyone — anyone — to whom I could turn and say, 'What do you do? She also cites her sudden wealth as a challenge, noting that she didn't expect the kind of problems it brought.
I was hit by this tsunami of demands. I felt overwhelmed. And I was really worried that I would mess up. But the very best thing her wealth has given Rowling, according to her website, is the absence of worry about paying the bills. Not to have to think about that anymore is the biggest luxury in the world.
She's also used her wealth and status for good. After being "marked" by the image of a young, disabled boy screaming from a caged bed in the basement of an orphanage, Rowling founded the international nonprofit Lumos, which works to help disadvantaged children who live in institutions and "so-called" orphanages around the world.
Though Rowling could easily retire on her earnings, she continues to write books, including her first book for an adult audience, "The Casual Vacancy," and a crime fiction series that includes her first mystery novel, "The Cuckoo's Calling. Despite her commercial success as the author of the "Harry Potter" series, Rowling faced rejection yet again when she submitted the mystery novel to several publishing houses under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.
One publisher said the company couldn't publish "The Cuckoo's Calling" "with commercial success" and suggested the author attend writing school. The novel was eventually accepted by Sphere Books, and after Rowling's identity as the author was leaked on Twitter, book sales immediately soared and topped the charts.
The extent of Rowling's impact goes beyond selling millions of books. Wharton professor Adam Grant says Rowling is perhaps "the most influential person alive today" because of the continuing positive impact her books have on children. Grant cites recent research, which found that reading Harry Potter could improve children's attitudes towards marginalized groups. Rowling, the world would be a better place if you kept writing 'Harry Potter' books," Grant writes on Quora.
Thankfully, she seems to be taking that advice to heart. Rowling has supplemented the "Harry Potter" series with reference books, including "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them," which has been adapted into a film of the same name to be release this November. And she recently released writings on the Pottermore website about the wizarding schools around the world and the history of magic.
The play has received glowing reviews so far, and the script book, which will be released at the following morning, has already become a best-seller through pre-sales. Rachel Gillett is a senior lifestyle editor at Insider overseeing a team that covers travel, home, alternative living, photography, and visual features.
She was formerly the visual features editor for Insider Inc. She previously wrote and edited for Fast Company's Leadership section.
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