The Story of the FIRST Harry Potter Book and How It NEARLY Failed (JK Rowling’s Autobiography)

Welcome to Harry Potter Theory. Today we’re going to be diving in to a segment from the autobiography of JK Rowling, published over a decade ago on her old website, where she discusses the struggles she faced in life as she wrote the first Harry Potter novel. Among many other things, we find out how she chose the name ‘Potter’, who the Chamber of Secrets was dedicated to, how the book nearly failed completion, and how the book was eventually published. Let’s get in to it. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices