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Rowling masked insecurity as a child

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ered it up with bossing her sister around. At one point she
wanted to be a ballerina, but she was always happiest when
reading. ].owling was always terrible at sports, so making
Harry captain of the quidditch team (a team sport played on
broomsticks) was almost a wish to try to make up for her
childhood.:

These books are about a young boy who suddenly dis-
covers he-is a wizard. Harry always knew he was different
but he didn’t know why. Because he is of age, he must now
attend the Hogwarts school for witches and wizards which
leads only to great adventures and stories.

Lately, there has been a lot of controversy over people
and their religions being offended because of supposed
satanic. messages in the books. How does Rowling deal with
this? “Well,” she says, “Tell them they need psychiatric help.
How can anyonc believe these books have satanic messages
in them?” She tells these Stories in an honest way, the way
they come to her.

Everyone is dying to know what will happen to Harry.
Will she continue to write after he has left Hogwarts? And
will one of Harry's adventures be the death of him? Rowling
will only say that she is planning on writing seven books,
one for each year that Harry is at Hogwarts. —

- Rowling said her advice for young authors is to make

_ time for writing. “Write whenever you can. If you really
want to be a writer you will make time. No matter what.”
a Her feeling for the Harry Potter movie is all positive.

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The cast is all British which was her dream. Rowling feels
she has enough control over the movie and book and things
haven’ gotten out of hand. She is extremely grateful that
they have asked her things that she didn’t expect to be asked
about and she has had script approval. Rowling, says thar the
movie is very faithful to the book but not ev erything. can. be
put in the film that was in the book because the movie
would be over three hours long.

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When asked why Harry is a skinny little geeky boy, with
glasses instead of big, rich hulk of a man, she says Harry i is
who he is. The stories wouldn’t have been as special unless

Harry is what he is like now.

Rowling said she feels overwhelmed with the feeling of
power she has from being able to reach out and talk to so
many children. Unfortunately, next year she won't be doing
any tours or book signings. Instead it will be “writing, writ-

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Does she see herself as leading some sort of book reading
crusade? No the books are written for herself and if others
enjoy reading them, good for them. She loves people’s
hunger for the books she writes, she loves when people
argue with her about a character that she made up in her

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