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J.K Rowling thought up the idea of Harry Potter on a delayed train from Manchester to London of course she was annoyed by the fact that she didn't have a pen and was to shy to ask for one so she sat and thought for a while!

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J.K. Rowling was on a delayed train in Manchester when she came up with the idea for Harry Potter. She said the idea popped into her head, and she began writing notes on a napkin until she was able to get to paper.

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J.K. Rowling has never gone into detail about how she came up with the idea of Hogwarts. Setting the school in a castle probably came as a result of her being from the UK where there are many castles.

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The idea just occured to her on a train journey. She says that Harry

"Just strolled into my mind, fully formed."

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J.K. Rowling was on a delayed train from Manchester to London when she said the idea popped into her head. Rowling began writing the book that evening, although it changed a lot since then.

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on a train journey from kings cross to Edinburgh

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Authors usually get ideas from everywhere, J.K Rowling thought of the Hogwarts Express because she was stuck on the train while writing.

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9y ago

J.K. Rowling argued with her boyfriend then invented Quidditch in a small hotel room in Manchester.

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In 1990 J.K. Rowling was on a train going to Manchester when the idea of "Harry Potter" - a schoolboy wizard - "fell into her head".

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