This amazing story happened in 1990. A not-so-lucky twenty-five-year-old Englishwoman named Joan Kathleen Rowling came up with the image of the young wizard Harry Potter, who became famous throughout the world and made his creator one of the most famous women on the planet. And these amazing events began in the most prosaic place - a crowded carriage of the Manchester-London train... After graduating from the University of Exeter, the modest and inconspicuous girl JK Rowling got a job as a secretary at the charity Amnesty International. Perhaps the only thing she liked about this job was the opportunity to secretly type invented stories on the company computer. One day, at the end of the weekend, she was returning to London from Manchester, where she had settled with her then a young man. Suddenly, a new character appeared in her imagination - a thin, dark-haired boy with glasses and a scar on his forehead. At the same time, he had no idea what strong magical abilities he had... However, Joan did not even have a pen with her, and for four hours she simply came up with new details of the image that had so suddenly appeared. That same evening, the future famous writer began working on the first book about Harry Potter. Gradually, Harry had his own world, full of friends and enemies. The prototypes of fairy-tale characters were JK Rowling's acquaintances, and sometimes even herself. For example, the diligent and all-knowing Hermione resembles the writer herself as a child, Severus Snape resembles one of her school teachers, and Goldsmith Lockons is not the most pleasant of her acquaintances Joan. Rowling found unusual names for her characters among the scientific names of plants, heroes of medieval legends, on geographical maps, in dictionaries, even on monuments to war victims. Harry received the surname Potter in honor of the writer's childhood friend, and Severus Snape is the name of one of the English villages. The days when the young wizard was born were by no means the happiest for the writer. On December 30, 1990, JK Rowling's mother died, to whom she never had time to tell about her new plan. Inspired by the tragedy that happened in her life, Joan wrote a scene in which Harry sees his parents in a magic mirror. The writer’s first marriage was also unsuccessful, ending in divorce... Left alone with her little daughter Jessica in her arms, JK Rowling settled in Edinburgh and decided to finish the book about Harry Potter. Almost every evening she went to a small cafe, where she ordered tea or water and wrote page after page. When the paper ran out, Joan continued to write on napkins. Now a memorial plaque hangs in this cafe, and its owner plans to open a Harry Potter museum in it. Today, JK Rowling is the world's richest writer, a happy wife and mother of three children. The epic of Harry Potter is long over, but Joan promises that someday she will return to her favorite character... So, meet all the books in the Harry Potter series in one volume!!!