Rowling has stated on her website that there are no true pure-blood families left, but that those who call themselves such simply strike Muggles, Squibs, and Half-bloods from their family records.

The Leader of the Opposition, Bill Rowling stated that he would remove Holyoake as Governor-General should the Labour Party win the 1978 general election, and openly suggested that he would have appointed Sir Edmund Hillary as Governor-General.

Agents representing J. K. Rowling have stated in the past that they cannot and do not intend to prevent individuals from translating Rowling's books for their own personal enjoyment, as long as the results are not made available to the general public.

In a 2001 interview with publisher Scholastic, Rowling stated that she chose the subject of magical creatures because it was a fun topic for which she had already developed a lot of information in earlier books.

Rowling has stated that the reason she had Molly kill Bellatrix was to show Molly's great powers as a witch and to provide a contrast between Molly's consumption with " maternal love " and Bellatrix's with " obsessive love ".

Rowling stated that she " knew from the beginning it would be the biggest of the first four ".

When interviewed, Rowling stated that when Harry, Ron and Hermione work for the Ministry, they change it drastically, making it less corrupt.

Such instances include: several of the Wolves carrying weapons that resemble lightsabers and a " messenger robot " similar in demeanor to the android C-3PO from the Star Wars movies, with the look of an Isaac Asimov robot ; the Wolves themselves seeming to bear a physical resemblance to Doctor Doom from the Marvel Comics comic books, and flying grenades named " sneetches " that are stated as being from the " Harry Potter " product line ( a direct reference to the Golden Snitch from the J. K. Rowling books, and to the Dr. Seuss characters ).

However, author J. K. Rowling has approved of all these changes and stated that it is " simply impossible " to include every single storyline in a film with time and budget constraints.

J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, has stated in an interview that her short story " The Tale of the Three Brothers " from The Tales of Beedle the Bard is loosely based on " The Pardoner's Tale ".

Rowling stated that Dumbledore left it to Ron because he believed he might have needed a little more guidance than Harry and Hermione.

Rowling has stated that the wand is brutal in its choice of master, and that, while most wands have some allegiance to their own masters, the Elder Wand only responds to power.

In the same chat, Victoria Holmes stated that Jacqueline Wilson, Kathy Reichs and J. K. Rowling are some of the authors that inspire her.

Rowling has stated that of the Hogwarts annual intake, 50 % are half-bloods.

However, Rowling has stated that Muggle-borns inherit their magic from a distant ancestor ; they are descended from Squibs who married Muggles and whose families had lost the knowledge of their wizarding legacy.

Rowling has stated that Muggle-born witches and wizards are descended from squibs who married Muggles ; the magical gene may resurface after many generations unexpectedly.

* Harry Potter's worst flaws, as stated by Rowling, are " anger and occasional arrogance ": Harry Potter

At the time of the movie's release, however, author J. K. Rowling said that it was her personal favorite from the series so far.

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Although Rowling has said that Gilderoy Lockhart is her only character that she " deliberately based on a real person ", Snape was reportedly based, at least in part, on John Nettleship, who taught Rowling chemistry and employed her mother as an assistant at Wyedean School near Chepstow.

In a 1999 interview, and again in 2004, Rowling singled out Snape as one of her favourite characters to write.

" Answering a question regarding Snape's love life and the redemptive pattern to his character in 1999, Rowling expressed her surprise at the foresight.

The first time this form of injunction was used since 1852 in the United Kingdom was in 2005 when lawyers acting for JK Rowling and her publishers obtained an interim order against an unidentified person who had offered to sell chapters of a stolen copy of an unpublished Harry Potter novel to the media ".

" In a 2006 list for the Royal Society of Literature, author J. K. Rowling named Charlie and the Chocolate Factory among her top ten books every child should read.

British author J. K. Rowling introduced a hippogriff named Buckbeak in her Harry Potter book series.

J. K. Rowling / Warner Brothers has sent cease-and-desist letters referencing " sexually explicit " writings on the web, ( Example cease and desist letters at Chilling Effects ), though Rowling approves the writing of fan fiction in general, posting links to fan fiction on her website and openly acknowledging slash fiction while maintaining that pairings such as those between Harry / Draco and Harry / Snape are non-canonical.

Rowling was praised for her imagination by USA Today writer Deirdre Donahue.

Rowling pretended to bang her head against the sofa in mock frustration.

* Interview with J. K. Rowling about her book Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

In her Harry Potter series, J. K. Rowling observed that a wizard who became a rat had a rat's brain ( although the Animagus talent bypasses this problem ), and in her Earthsea books, Ursula K. Le Guin depicts an animal form as slowly transforming the wizard's mind, so that the dolphin, or bear, or other creature forgets it was human and can not change back, a voluntary shapeshifting becoming an imprisoning metamorphosis.

J. K. Rowling expressed her indecision about the title in an Entertainment Weekly interview.

To publicise the book, a special train named Hogwarts Express was organised by Bloomsbury, and run from King's Cross to Perth, carrying J. K. Rowling, a consignment of books for her to sign and sell, also representatives of Bloomsbury and the press.

Later that year, as the Dutch translation Tanja Grotter en de magische contrabas was still legal in Belgium, the Flemish publishers Roularta Books decided to print 1, 000 copies ( and no more ) in order to let people decide whether it was plagiarism, hoping that under those circumstances Rowling and her publishers would not sue.

In 2001 Rowling penned two companion books to the Harry Potter series, Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, for British charity and off-shoot of Live Aid, Comic Relief with all of her royalties going to the charity.

* Interview with J. K. Rowling about her book Quidditch Through the Ages

Hitchens argues that the tactic " has a deplorable effect on both the plot and the dialogue " in that it creates " The need for Rowling to play catch-up with her many convolutions ".

On October 31, 2007, J. K. Rowling and Warner Brothers filed a lawsuit against RDR Books over the publication of Vander Ark's Lexicon in book form.

The next site was the Harry Potter Lexicon, an online encyclopedia Rowling has admitted to visiting while writing away from home rather than buying a copy of her books in a store.

The Leaky Cauldron withdrew financial support from the Lexicon and disbanded the Floo Network in 2007 following the legal action pursued by JK Rowling against its creator and webmaster, Steve Vander Ark.

SF conventions routinely have programming on fantasy topics, and fantasy authors such as J. K. Rowling have won the highest honor within the science fiction field, the Hugo Award.

According to Rowling, a quarter of the annual Hogwarts intake have two non-magical parents ; thus far in canon, there have also been some children known to have been born to one magical and one non-magical parent.

" At least as much as they've been attacked from a theological point of view ," notes Rowling, " books have been lauded and taken into pulpit, and most interesting and satisfying for me, it's been by several different faiths.

A well-known example of this comes in the Harry Potter series of J. K. Rowling, where three such supplemental books have been produced, with the profits going to charity.

He was replaced by Bill Rowling, who did not have the same charismatic appeal – in the 1975 election, Labour was defeated by National, which was led by Robert Muldoon.

" At least as much as they've been attacked from a theological point of view ", notes Rowling, " books have been lauded and taken into pulpit, and most interesting and satisfying for me, it's been by several different faiths ".

In some countries, there have been no authorised translations into the local language, but translations not sanctioned by J. K. Rowling have been prepared and published.

Whereas " pirate translations " are unauthorised translations of true Harry Potter books, " fake translations " have also appeared, which are published pastiches or fanfics that a foreign publisher has tried to pass off as the translation of the real book by Rowling.

He does not marry or have children, since he " preferred dragons to women ", according to Rowling.

A fan-based campaign alone would not have caused Rowling to win the prize.

" Isaacs also talked to J. K. Rowling on the inclusion of Lucius Malfoy in the then unpublished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, so that he would have a part in the seventh and final film: " The character does not appear in the sixth book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ; but ... joked, ' I fell to my knees and begged ...

* On camera J. K. Rowling and Daniel Radcliffe, while discussing the near-death or afterlife scenes from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, both reveal A Matter of Life and Death to have been their favorite film and something that each had had in mind when working on the scenes in Harry Potter.

J. K Rowling is also said to have visited Puzzlewood, and it may have been this that influenced her idea of The Forbidden Forest in the Harry Potter books.

* Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003 fantasy / bildungsroman novel by J. K. Rowling, includes a scene with a couple who both have profound dementia resulting from prolonged torture.

Former live shows have revolved around the news of J. K. Rowling revealing that Professor Albus Dumbledore was gay, the splitting of the seventh movie into two parts, and J. K. Rowling's appearance in court over copyright issues.