- J.K. Rowling doesn't have a middle name. Her publishers thought the book would sell better if they didn't know the author was a woman, so they asked Joanne to use her first two initials and her last name.
So where does the K come from? Kathleen is Joanne's mother's name, so she uses that as her initial, JK, and Rowling is her maiden name.
- Another cool fact? Rowling's favorite book is the series between Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and Deathly Hallows . Joanne struggled while writing Order of the Phoenix , which is the longest book.
Joanne Rowling's mother was diagnosed with MS when she was 35, and her mother died when she was just 45. Joanne Rowling loved her mother dearly and had this to say about her and her books
- You probably already know this, but I didn't know the ending. JK Rowling wanted Alan Rickman, the actor who played Severus Snape, to know the whole character (it also pushed Alan Rickman to get deeper into his character, because he didn't want to be just another cruel person, he wanted something more complex). Rowling told Rickman the meaning of the word, "Always," from the beginning.
The director himself didn't know what Snape looked like. Only the actor and Rowling did. So sometimes, when directing Rickman, the director would ask him something, and Rickman would say, "No, I can't I know what's going to happen, and you don't." Cool.