In 1990 in her way from Manchester to London, a coach she boarded broke down for almost four hours. While she was looking at a herd of cows through the window, the idea of Harry Potter sprang out of her brain. During the following months, Joanne was busy developing this story of a small magician’s adventure. September 1990 she moved to Portugal and worked as an English teacher. There she fell in love with a TV journalist named Jorge Arantes. They got married and in 1993 their first daughter, Jessica, was born. Not long after that they got divorced. And Joanne returned to Edinburgh, Scotland.
At that time Joanne lived a difficult life. So poor was she that she should go everywhere on foot though city bus fee was cheap. She often wrote in cafes, since her cold and narrow flat was of course not a place full of inspiration. Fortunately the café owner was kind, and let Joanne write there eventhough she only ordered a cup of coffee a glass of water, while her baby was sleeping. In 1997 her fate totally changed when British publisher, Bloomsbury Press, published the first book of Harry Potter “Harry Potter and Philosopher’s Stone” (in America it was published under the name of Harry Potter and Sorcerer’s Stone). This book was a great success throughout the world and so were her next books.

Jo plans to write a story of Harry Potter until Harry reaches his seventeenth, when he graduates from Hogwarts School of Magics. This means the seventh book. Her excellent gift can be proved through the launching of her world-shaking work, Harry Potter.

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