Those of us who have grown up with Harry Potter know how influential the characters were…
Sadly, as the years have gone on, we have lost a lot of our beloved cast members.
We’ve had to say goodbye to twenty-four incredible actors since the franchise began.
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Now, of course, we all know J.K Rowling is the woman behind it all.
What started out as a mere musing while stuck on a delayed train in London in 1990, led to a young Joanne Rowling conjuring up the magical story of Harry Potter.
It’s become a huge success.
Thirty years since it’s creation, over 500 million copies of the book franchise have been sold worldwide in eighty different languages.
Making it one of the best-selling book series of all time.
Rowling famously struggled with marriage and money issues in the 4 years she spent working on the first Harry Potter book. In 1994, she found herself as a newly-divorced single mom living out of her sister’s spare room in the Scottish city of Edinburgh.
And, unbelievably, her idea was turned down by several different publishers…
Who reportedly found the idea to be “too long-winded for children.”