![]() The story focuses on Harry’s quest to defeat the evilest wizard of all time, Lord Voldemort, who killed his parents when Harry was only one year old. I began to write ‘Philosopher’s Stone’ that very evening, although those first few pages bear no resemblance to anything in the finished book. Perhaps, if I had slowed down the ideas to capture them on paper, I might have stifled some of them (although sometimes I do wonder, idly, how much of what I imagined on that journey I had forgotten by the time I actually got my hands on a pen). I simply sat and thought, for four (delayed train) hours, while all the details bubbled up in my brain, and this scrawny, black-haired, bespectacled boy who didn’t know he was a wizard became more and more real to me. I did not have a functioning pen with me, but I do think that this was probably a good thing. To my immense frustration, I didn’t have a pen that worked, and I was too shy to ask anybody if I could borrow one… I had been writing almost continuously since the age of six but I had never been so excited about an idea before. After a weekend’s flat-hunting, I was traveling back to London on my own on a crowded train, and the idea for Harry Potter simply fell into my head. My then boyfriend and I had decided to move up to Manchester together. We're taking a look back at the history of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone." The Book That Started It All: Celebrating 25 Years of “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” - What a magical 25 years it's been.“Potter” Rarities Sold in Recent Auction - A Colchester auction featured a rare edition of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" as well as a Gryffindor cloak from the fourth film. ![]() Alexa Will Continue to Read “Sorcerer’s Stone” Until August - There's a new, fun way to introduce young witches and wizards to Hogwarts with a collaboration between Audible and Wizarding World Digital. ![]()
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