City That Inspired Harry Potter

[Gissing]

A quiz question asks what European city inspired JK Rowling to write her first Harry Potter novel. Possible answers might be Porto or London, or elsewhere. Does anyone have a definitive answer?

[emmie]

i would have thought London, but don't know for sure.

[bobbinwales]

Think she said she written it in a coffee shop in Edinborough if that helps

[emmie]

it doesn't Bobb, she freely admits that's not true, not her first book, that was written in the capital.

[wolf63]

Edinburgh is the capital!

[emmie]

of Scotland, i meant London, see if i can find the same piece, where she says it was written here.

[dannyk13]

Manchester
//when she conceived the idea for the Harry Potter series while on a delayed train from Manchester to London in 1990.

[emmie]

not sure this works,

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/jk-rowling-confirms-first-harry-18293671

[bobbinwales]

Maybe, tho heres a shop in Edinbrough that has a sign in saying she wrote there

[emmie]

She revealed that the first time she put pen to paper on the Potter novels was in London.

She explained: "This is the true birthplace of Harry Potter, if you define 'birthplace' as the spot where I put pen to paper for the first time.* I was renting a room in a flat over what was then a sports shop.

"The first bricks of Hogwarts were laid in a flat in Clapham Junction."

[emmie]

she did confirm that she wrote there, but not seemingly the first book.

[Ellipsis]

As a quiz question, the answer is probably Edinburgh. But the real answer is a lot more confused than that:

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/jk-rowling-harry-potter-birthplace-clapham-edinburgh-a9527656.html

If you ask me, no city "inspired" JK Rowling to write her first Harry Potter novel.

[emmie]

no definitive answer then...