Joanne Rowling once proclaimed, “I am an extraordinarily lucky person, doing what I love best in the world. I’m sure that I will always be a writer. It was wonderful enough just to be published...” (Sirs Discoverer). It is important to note that authors leave many pieces of their lives behind in their work. To fully comprehend J.K. Rowling, one must examine her life growing up, her journey as an author, and her life as it relates to her famed series, Harry Potter. To understand certain components of Harry Potter, it is important to examine aspects of Joanne Rowling’s life. Rowling was born on July 31st, 1965, at Yate General Hospital near Bristol, England (https://www.jkrowling.com/). She was two when her sister, Dianne Rowling, was born. …show more content…
Rowling’s life, one must further examine particular characteristics of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. In the story, Harry is living miserably with his uncle and aunt, Vernon and Petunia Dursley, and his cousin, Dudley Dursley. He sleeps in a broom closet underneath the stairs, is bullied at school, and is mistreated by his family. Rowling, in the novel, had said, “Harry had a thin face, knobbly knees, black hair, and bright green eyes. He wore round glasses held together with a lot of Scotch tape because of all the times Dudley had punched him in the nose”. The way she describes him shows her empathy with being an adolescent, and the difficulties that follow. When Harry turns eleven, he gets a letter from the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The Dursleys are doing everything in their power to keep the letter from him. However, the owls (the messenger birds used in the magic world) do not give up so easily. One letter finally gets through to Harry with the help of Hagrid, the Hogwarts gamekeeper. This is when Harry finds out the truth about his background- that his parents were magic, they were killed by Lord Voldemort, an evil sorcerer, and that he was somewhat of a celebrity in the wizard world for having survived Voldemort’s attempted attack on him. They called him “The Boy Who Lived” (Pollack …show more content…
On a very chilly day, Joanne’s mother, Anne, said she was quite cold. A stranger named Peter gave her his jacket. A year later, they were married (Pollack 8). It seems no coincidence that this train station was the very same train station that Harry took the train from platform 9 ¾ to Hogwarts. The Hogwarts Express is the train that Harry met his series-long companions on: a red-headed boy named Ron Weasley, and a know-it-all named Hermione