Harry Potter and Me – Part 1

To find out the routes of this publishing success about the boy who became famous this part of the biography looks at the beginnings of the Harry Potter saga and the implications on J. K. Rowling's life and the world. We turn to J. K. Rowling's own story of how she came to writing about the young wizard. For this we go back to 1990 when the idea materialised and how the author felt then and looks back at it now. She visits King's Cross giving her personal notions and thoughts about the place. She talks about developing the plot over five years before the first book came out. She shows her notes on characters, sketches, discarded chapters and histories she drew up.