But now, Rowling has revealed that Edinburgh is actually not where the writing of the boy who lived it began.
“I rented a room in a flat above what later became a sports shop,” Rowling said on Twitter, with a picture of where she lived at the time of writing her first book. “The first brick of Hogwarts was placed in a flat in Clapham Junction.”
The fan asked Rowling to explain “the truth about Harry Potter’s ‘birthplace’.”
Rowling, who is known to drop bombs and unknown news about franchises on Twitter, explains that the original “pen to paper” born in Harry Potter itself, took place in his flat.
However, he said, the moment he had an idea for the series itself was when he got on the train.
“If you define the birthplace of Harry Potter as a moment when I have an initial idea, then that is the Manchester-London train,”
Rowling tweeted. “But I’m always entertained by the idea that Hogwarts is directly inspired by the beautiful places I see or visit, because it’s far from the truth.”
As for the high-flying game, the Quidditch bludger, Rowling
the word it was born in 1991 after staying one night at the Bourneville Hotel in Manchester.
Rowling continues to dispel a number of other rumors about her inspiration for key icons from the world of Harry Potter.
For example, a fan tweeted a picture from the bookstore Livraria Lello, in Porto, Portugal, which is said to inspire the Hogwarts library. The only problem is, Rowling said she had never been there.
He
not admitted which he wrote in a cafe in Rua Santa Catarina, Portugal.
“If it comforts people who are disappointed with the bookstore in Oporto, I sometimes write here,” he wrote. “Actually this is the most beautiful cafe I’ve ever written.”
Rowling also said that rumors around her inspiration for Hogwarts themselves also missed the mark.
“I sometimes hear Hogwarts is based on one of the schools in Edinburgh, but that is also 100% wrong,” Rowling said.
“Hogwarts was created long before I applauded one of them! I finished the Hallows at Balmoral, and I can’t lie, I would rate it a little higher than Bournville.”
Of all the “bullshit about Potter landmarks,” Rowling said her favorite was people going to the parking meter that was supposed to be used in Edinburgh when writing “Deathly Hallows.”
“I can’t drive,” he wrote.
Unfortunately, when it came to spoilers about the work ahead, Dumbledore voiced his best disappointment: “Ouch, earwax.”
