I simply sat and thought, for four (delayed train) hours, while all the details bubbled up in my brain, and this scrawny, black-haired, bespectacled boy who didn’t know he was a wizard became more and more real to me. I did not have a functioning pen with me, but I do think that this was probably a good thing. To my immense frustration, I didn’t have a pen that worked, and I was too shy to ask anybody if I could borrow one… I had been writing almost continuously since the age of six but I had never been so excited about an idea before. After a weekend’s flat-hunting, I was traveling back to London on my own on a crowded train, and the idea for Harry Potter simply fell into my head.

My then boyfriend and I had decided to move up to Manchester together.

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