My literary Hero

“Joanne "Jo" Rowling, OBE FRSL, pen name J. K. Rowling, is a British novelist, best known as the author of the Harry Potter fantasy series. The Potter books have gained worldwide attention, won multiple awards, and sold more than 400 million copies.” Wikipedia

My literary hero…the headline itself sounds fascinating, impressive, strong and interesting for me. My hero is  J.K Rowling just because she was always there since I was little. My mom read the first book to me every night before I went to sleep because I was about 6 years old and she didn’t had any trouble  to get me to bed anymore because I was so spellbound about the magic story of Harry Potter and his friends. The next day in school my peers and I just talked about how far we got in the book and which character we liked the most ( for me Severus Snape, I always thought he was the “good guy” and in the end I was right!). I loved it and I couldn’t wait for the movie to come out. As such a fan of course I had to go to the midnight premiere of every single Harry Potter movie, not even Twilight got me that far and the movie was more than I could ever imagine in those young days. The hype kept on and I started to read the second book on my own, which took away hours of sleep because the way Rowling writes is the best and most interesting way to read. These stories get into your mind and stay there forever. However, I’ve read every single book and the last one in English and I saw every movie and I have all of them as a dvd in my shelf next to my bed. I am still amazed, that because of J.k Rowlings books a lot of people shared the same interest and actually started reading again, which is for me the best part. Thanks J.K Rowling

Charlotte Neuber