What inspired JK Rowling to develop her magical world that is made real for us in the Harry Potter films? Which UK city became home to the Wizarding World? Who provided her with a personality, a name, an appearance for some of her most adored characters?
JK Rowling receiving an honorary degree from University of Aberdeen.
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• JK Rowling’s home in Edinburgh, Scotland, faces the Merchiston Campus of Edinburgh Napier University. Many of the chapters in the Harry Potter books were imagined and written throughout Edinburgh.
• Rowling attended the University of Exeter in England, where she received a BA in French and Classics.
• The author has honorary degrees from several UK universities including University of Exeter, Edinburgh Napier University, University of Edinburgh, University of Aberdeen, and St Andrews University.
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• Professor Peter Wiseman, a former lecturer at the University of Leicester, has been cited as the inspiration for the character of Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter series. Wiseman, who was at Leicester from 1963-1976, was JK Rowling’s tutor at the University of Exeter between 1983 and 1986. He presented her with her honorary degree from the University of Exeter in 2000. • Thomas Taylor, an Anglia Ruskin University alum, designed the original front cover of the first Harry Potter book. He graduated in 1995 with a degree in illustration. Front cover, UK edition, of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by JK Rowling, illustrated by Thomas Taylor. © Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. |
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