>> Originally, Rowling wrote ‘Harry Potter’ to pay off her gas bills while living in a tiny flat with her baby daughter.

>> She wrote ten versions of the first chapter of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.

>> Whilst at University she had little money so, for friends’ birthdays, she wrote them personal little stories.

>> According to Forbes magazine in 2006,u00a0she is the first author billionaire.u00a0