Every time that I reread a Harry Potter book, I am still in awe that one person could come up with such an elaborate and amazing world. A world that many people wish existed. However, it did only come from one mind that of J.K Rowling. If I had to choose and idol, without even thinking, J.K Rowling would be my obvious choice. If I could have even a sliver of her creative genius and success that she has acquired over the past decade and a half, I would be content with my life.It still blows my mind that she was able to create such a detailed world that people want to live in. I am still waiting for that damn owl to deliver my letter to Hogwarts, even though it’s about eleven years too late. However, better late than never! I know so many people, who would love to go to Hogwarts to learn magic. Jo has even created words that have been integrated into our pop culture, such as muggle (non-magical person) and quidditch (a wizarding sport). Speaking of quidditch, many colleges around the world have created quidditch leagues of their own. There is even such thing as the International Quidditch Association.
Jo has also created many characters that people relate too and feel with as their lives unfold in the pages. I have never read a book with so many characters I would love to meet in real life. The characters give the book such depth. Jo did such an amazing job bringing them to life on the pages that when she would kill them off, I would actually cry. I would sit there in disbelief that she was so heartless to kill that person. I even got angry sometimes, like when she killed off Fred Weasley and not Percy Weasley! I know I am not alone in this either. Only a truly gifted writer can make their audience shed tears over the deaths of fictional people. Jo did just that, not only one time, but multiple times throughout the books.
All of the wonderful characters and the elaborate world would be nothing if she did not come up with such an awesome plot. Her creative genius tied together all the elements into complex interwoven plots from book one all the way to book seven. Not only did she have enough genius to crank out seven books, she wrote seven books that kept her audience more and more interested as the story progressed. “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” became the fastest selling book of all time by selling about 15 million copies worldwide in its first twenty four hours. Once again only a creative genius would be able to pull that off.
To top it all off, J.K Rowling seems to be a wonderfully kind woman. She is not smug or arrogant about her success. She prefers her privacy and doesn’t flounce around with her billions of dollars, trying to show everybody that she is better than them. Quite a bit of her money is given to multiple charities. Her humble attitude may be due to the fact that before she became the first ever billionaire author, she was living off welfare as a single mother. She had a tough life before Harry Potter was published and it took over a year for it to even get published. I bet all those idiots who turned her manuscript down are feeling pretty stupid now. However, that’s beside the point, luckily scholastic was smart enough to see her creative genius and publish Harry Potter.
