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　　Like that of her own character, Harry Potter, J．K．Rowling’s life is like a fairy tale．Divorced, living on public assistance in a tiny Edinburgh flat with her infant daughter, Rowling 　　1　　 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone 　　2　　 a table in a café during her daughter’s naps－and it was Harry Potter 　　3　　 rescued her．

　　Rowling 　　4　　 that she always wanted to write and that the first 　　5　　 she actually wrote down, when she was five or six, was a story about a rabbit 　　6　　 Rabbit．Many of her favorite 　　7　　 center around reading－hearing The Wind in the Willows 　　8　　 aloud by her father when she had the measles(麻疹), enjoying the fantastic adventure stories of E．Nesbit, and her favorite story of all, The little White Horse．

　　At Exeter University Rowling took her degree in French and 　　9　　 one year studying in Paris．After college she moved to London to 　　10　　 as a researcher and bilingual secretary．The best thing about working in an office, she has said, was 　　11　　 up stories on the computer when no one was 　　12　　．During this time, on a particularly long train ride from Manchester to London in the summer of 1990, the idea 　　13　　 her of a boy who is a wizard and doesn’t know it．He 　　14　　 a school for wizardry－she could see him very plainly in her mind．By the time the train 　　15　　 into Kings Cross station four hours later, many of the characters and the early stages of the plot were fully 　　16　　 in her head．The story took further shape as she continued working on it in 　　17　　 and cafes over her lunch hours．

　　After her marriage to a Portuguese TV journalist ended in divorce, Rowling returned to Britain with her infant daughter and a suitcase full of Harry Potter notes and 　　18　　．She settled in Edinburgh to be near her sister and 　　19　　 to finish the book before looking for a teaching job．Wheeling her daughter’s carriage around the city to escape their 　　20　　, cold apartment, she would duck into coffee shops to write when the baby fell asleep．In this way she finished the book and started sending it to publishers．

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