While many of us believe that a coffee shop named Elephant House in Edinburgh is the place of Harry Potter's birth, J.K. Rowling clears out the air and reveals that the concept actually came to her while on a Manchester to London train.
The rumour about Edinburgh's cafe being the origin of the Harry Potter idea came after a fan posted a picture on Twitter of the Elephant House, which on its website describes itself as "made famous as the place of inspiration to writers such as J.K.
Rowling, who sat writing much of her early novels in the back room overlooking Edinburgh Castle." J.K. Rowling admitted that the creation of Hogwarts is inspired "by beautiful places I saw or visited because it's so far from the truth," she says.
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