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« Harry Potter » author: You don’t forget poverty
(dpa) – Writer JK Rowling (59) – Thanks to the « Harry Potter » books of one of the richest people in Great Britain – still remembers her earlier poverty. « Someone who was not poor himself will not understand what that means, » she told the newspaper « Sunday Times ». She still remembers that very well. « You never forget it. »
« There are talk about the arms, they are being mated, they are talked about and all of this happened to me in these years, » said Rowling, whose assets are estimated by the « Sunday Times » to at least £ 945 million (around 1.1 billion euros).
« Sometimes I was literally hungry because it was more important to me to feed my daughter, but that wasn’t the worst, » said Rowling. « It is the daily humiliations – above all not to be able to give your child the things you would like to give. »
She once met a mother whose son was the same age as her daughter. « He had a room full of toys. I had a shoe box in which Jessica’s two toys were.
A few years ago, Rowling had made it public that she had freed herself from a first marriage characterized by violence. With the « Harry Potter » books, she then made her breakthrough. Your views of trans- and women’s rights keep criticizing. With the “Sunday Times”, Rowling also spoke about millions of donations and begging letters. She was really the last person who complains to suddenly become rich, she said. But it is true that life is fully unexpectedly dilemmata.
Once she got a letter from an investor who lost a lot of money. She had been explained that she could be lucky to have grown into poverty because she will never know how difficult it was to lose a fortune. The sender asked for money because he could no longer afford the opera. « I can understand when people think that I will think of it, but I still have the letter somewhere. »
