Neville, even though is constantly told how horribly he is at everything, grows stronger and has more confidence. I love the characters that begin to emerge and grow in this book. I think the highlight of the book is when she is carried off. She is cruel beyond words and whenever she is in the story I just cringe. I just love them!ĭelores Umbridge is a hag! I’m not even sure that I loathe Voldemort as much as I do her.
They really are brilliant and they put that to what they love and are good at.
I love how they are so rebellious and they take it to a new level in this book when they go up against Umbridge. It draws me right into that world that she has so brilliantly created.
HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF PHOENIX BOOK FULL
Oh, this book is just full of a bit of everything. She's a caricature of me when I was eleven, which I'm not particularly proud of." Steve Eddy, who taught Rowling English when she first arrived, remembers her as "not exceptional" but "one of a group of girls who were bright, and quite good at English." Sean Harris, her best friend in the Upper Sixth owned a turquoise Ford Anglia, which she says inspired the one in her books. Rowling said of her adolescence, "Hermione is loosely based on me. She attended secondary school at Wyedean School and College, where her mother had worked as a technician in the science department. I think it’s a dreadful time of life." She had a difficult homelife her mother was ill and she had a difficult relationship with her father (she is no longer on speaking terms with him). Rowling has said of her teenage years, in an interview with The New Yorker, "I wasn’t particularly happy. Mitford became Rowling's heroine, and Rowling subsequently read all of her books. When she was a young teenager, her great aunt, who Rowling said "taught classics and approved of a thirst for knowledge, even of a questionable kind," gave her a very old copy of Jessica Mitford's autobiography, Hons and Rebels. He got the measles and was visited by his friends, including a giant bee called Miss Bee." At the age of nine, Rowling moved to Church Cottage in the Gloucestershire village of Tutshill, close to Chepstow, Wales. Certainly the first story I ever wrote down (when I was five or six) was about a rabbit called Rabbit. She recalls that: "I can still remember me telling her a story in which she fell down a rabbit hole and was fed strawberries by the rabbit family inside it. Her headmaster at St Michael's, Alfred Dunn, has been suggested as the inspiration for the Harry Potter headmaster Albus Dumbledore.Īs a child, Rowling often wrote fantasy stories, which she would usually then read to her sister. She attended St Michael's Primary School, a school founded by abolitionist William Wilberforce and education reformer Hannah More. The family moved to the nearby village Winterbourne when Rowling was four. Rowling's sister Dianne was born at their home when Rowling was 23 months old. Her mother's paternal grandfather, Louis Volant, was awarded the Croix de Guerre for exceptional bravery in defending the village of Courcelles-le-Comte during the First World War. Her mother's maternal grandfather, Dugald Campbell, was born in Lamlash on the Isle of Arran. Her parents first met on a train departing from King's Cross Station bound for Arbroath in 1964. Her mother Anne was half-French and half-Scottish. Rowling was born to Peter James Rowling, a Rolls-Royce aircraft engineer, and Anne Rowling (née Volant), on 31 July 1965 in Yate, Gloucestershire, England, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Bristol. In a 2012 interview, Rowling noted that she no longer cared that people pronounced her name incorrectly. During the Leveson Inquiry she gave evidence under the name of Joanne Kathleen Rowling. She calls herself Jo and has said, "No one ever called me 'Joanne' when I was young, unless they were angry." Following her marriage, she has sometimes used the name Joanne Murray when conducting personal business. As she had no middle name, she chose K as the second initial of her pen name, from her paternal grandmother Kathleen Ada Bulgen Rowling. Anticipating that the target audience of young boys might not want to read a book written by a woman, her publishers demanded that she use two initials, rather than her full name. Rowling, pronounced like rolling, her name when her first Harry Potter book was published was simply Joanne Rowling. Although she writes under the pen name J.K.
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