![]() ![]() She explained in a 1999 interview with The Guardian: "Harry had to be an orphan so that he's a free agent, with no fear of letting down his parents, disappointing them. While developing the ideas for her book, she also decided to make Harry an orphan who attended a boarding school called Hogwarts. She stated that the idea of "this scrawny, black-haired, bespectacled boy who didn't know he was a wizard became more and more real to me". According to Rowling, the idea for both the Harry Potter books and its eponymous character came while waiting for a delayed train from Manchester, England to London in 1990. In a complete, very crisp later issue dust jacket priced at $19.95 and has the "Year 1" at the top of the spine. And purple paper-covered boards with a diamond pattern. Handsomely bound in finely woven quarter brick red cloth spine stamped brightly in gold. ![]()
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