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- Favorite virtue: courage
- Most despised vice: bigotry
- Most willing to forgive: gluttony
- Most marked characteristic: she's a trier
- Biggest fear: losing someone she loves
- Best quality in a man: morals
- Best quality on a woman: generosity
- Most value about friends: tolerance
- Principal defect: short fuse
- Favorite occupation: writing
- Dream of happiness: a happy family
- She was supposed to be Simon John, and that's why she wore mostly blue clothes when she was a child.
- When she was 9, she moved to the edge of the Forest of Dean.
- When she was 15, her mother was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
- One of the reasons why Harry Potter is so full of idealized father figures (Hagrid, Dumbledore, Sirius Black) is because her relationship with her own father wasn't so good.
- She was always trying to get his approval and to make him happy, until the point that she realized that she couldn't do that anymore. She haven't had any contact with him for a few years.
- Anne Rowling, her mother, died in 1990, 10 years after she was diagnosed.
- The essence of her writing didn't change after her mother died, it only got deeper and darker.
- Harry were always going to lose his parents and his journey were always going to be about avenging them and everyone against the one being that believed he could make himself immortal by killing other people.
- She never saw her mother's dead body because her father didn't wanted her to, and she agreed with him. She deeply regrets that now, because she thinks it would make things easier.
- She believes that the truth is always easier than a lie or an evasion, and that's one of the morals of the Harry Potter series. It's easier to deal with and easier to live with.
- After her mother's death she moved to Portugal to teach English as a foreign language. She then married Jorge Arantes, a television journalist, and had a daughter with him, Jessica. The marriage failed after 2 years, and she succumbed to depression.
- She was then as poor as someone can be without being homeless.
- Her depression inspired the creation of the Dementors.
- The series deal with serious moral questions, such as the nature of trust, loyalty, integrity and the need to stand against evil.
- To her, being human includes the capacity to love.
- She finished writing the series on January 11th, 2007, after 17 years writing, at the Balmoral Hotel in Edinburgh.
- The song she heard right after she finished the final book was Smile, by Lily Allen.
- She finished the final book about 3 weeks after the premiere of the fifth movie of the series, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
- At that time, the series had sold 315 million copies in 65 different languages, and the conclusion of the series was about to become the fastest selling book in history.
- She married Neil, a doctor, in 2001, and had two children, David and Mackenzie.
- Neil says Jo detaches herself when she gets very stressed, and she only trusts one person, which is herself, and she becomes more and more stressed and less able to accept any help.
- The premiere of the final book was in July 21st, 2007. This day, at the Natural History Museum in London, 1700 people, picked from a lottery of 90000 fans, were waiting for J.K. Rowling's arrival.
- She smokes.
- From 00:20 to 7:00am, Jo signed 1700 copies of her book.
- In the first 24 hours, 2.65 million books were sold in the United Kingdom, and 8.3 million books were sold in the USA, more than 7000 copies a minute.
- Jo wrote about the future of all characters who survived the Hogwarts Battle.
- Victoire received this name because she was born on the day of the Hogwarts Battle, which is May 2nd.
- Charlie neither had children nor got married, but he wasn't gay, just more interested in dragons than women.
- Dumbledore is gay. She told this to a fan once and the fan looked like she was going to slap Jo. Jo always saw Dumbledore as gay.
- Percy married Audrey, which is a very "percylike" name for a wife, and they had two daughters: Molly and Lucy.
- George married Angelina, who was actually Fred's ex, and they were as happy as they could be without Fred.
- Ginny married Harry and they had three children: James Sirius (godparents: Ron and Hermione), Albus Severus and Lily Luna.
- Luna married Rolf Scamander, grandson of a great naturalist (who actually wrote Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them) and they had a very interesting life, looking for strange animals. They had twin boys: Lorcan and Lysander, but this was a lot later than the rest of the characters because she got married after them.
- Jo's mother cooked very well.
- She's happier now than she has ever been in her life.
- She feels awkward now when she's in a room with a lot of people trying to impress her because for years she felt like the least important person in the room.
- She spends some money at Tiffany's and buying shoes (because she earned this right).
- A lot of strangers write to her asking for money, and sometimes she gives it to them.
- Every week Jo receives about 1500 letters, either from fans or from people asking for donations. That's over 75 thousand letters a year.
- She becomes very angry when it becomes to issues concerning social deprivation and social exclusion and she becomes more irritated and angry because of people who have really no idea of how it feels to exist in poverty and how it can ruin peoples lives. Even worst to her is to see that there's a section of our society who can't join the dots and doesn't see how issues that affect even them, their safe lives, such as crime and drugs, have their root in a terrible injustice. To her, it's amazing how people can't and don't care enough to try to reach a solution for those issues.
- She finished writing Philosopher's Stone at her old flat in Leith, which is just a few miles away from where she lives now. She didn't came back to that place for about 10 years.
- Her happiest moments were at the hospital, to give birth to each of her children.
- Her biggest regret is that she didn't hold her mother on the phone for longer when she spoke to her for the last time.
- She still wants to get better.
- She thinks that having the idea for the Harry Potter story was lucky.
- She has already felt like a fraud but she feels less like this as she gets older.
- What keeps her going is that she is a "born trier".
- She writes because she loves it and she needs it.
- She'd like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.
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