From Hogwarts history to detailed wizarding family trees, Harry Potter fans love the mythology of the series. We’ve also been equally entranced by the rags to riches story of its author. Over the years, numerous stories about the locations and moments that inspired her to write about the bespectacled wizard have become integral parts of how we view the series’ history, too. Except, now we’re going to have to rethink some of them, because J.K. Rowling herself has set the record straight.
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