Those that know me know that I love the Harry Potter series. It is, in this librarian's humble opinion, the most important series written in the last fifty years. Part Dickens, part CS Lewis, all awesome, the series has made JK Rowling a billionaire. But what was she like before she became the wealthiest woman in Britian? Enter the Internet and it's eternal memory. Recently an interview with the author that occurred when she was writing Azkaban has surfaced. In the video, our then scarlet-quaffed scribe discusses her writer's block and modest success (She sold 30,000 copies of the first two novels) while ordering a coffee anonymously at a cafe.
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