Rowling was born on July 31st, 1965 in Yate, England. She attended St. Michael’s Primary School, where her elder headmaster, Alfred Dunn, was the basis for the Headmaster of Hogwarts, Albus Dumbledore. She attended Wyedean School and College for secondary school. In 1990, while she was on a 4-hour delayed train ride to her flat in Clapham Junction, she thought of the idea for Harry Potter, but the idea was delayed after her mother died. Rowling moved to Portugal in the same year to teach English as a foreign language. On October 16th, 1992, she married Portugese telivision journalist Jorge Arantes, and on July 27th 1993, her daughter, Jessica Isabel Rowling Arantes was born. Rowling and her husband separated in late 1993, and in 1994 her daughter and her moved to Edinburgh, Scotland, where she wrote the Harry Potter series.
Many religions have thoughts against the Harry Potter series. Some extreme Christians even oppose it. The basis of there concerns are two old-testament verses, Exodus 22:18 “Do not allow a sorceress to live,” and Deutoronomy 18:10-11“Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, 11 or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead.” In September 2005, a woman by the name of Laura Mallory, who had two children in the Gwinnett County School System, tried to have the books taken off the shelves, saying they support evil, and even though she had never read the books, she quotes “ban Harry Potter books, or face more school shootings” she has been turned down by the School her children attend, the Gwinnett County Board of education, the Georgia State Board of Education, as well as the Gwinnett Superior Court. A representative for the Gwinnett Country Board of Education commented that if schools had to remove all books containing witchcraft, they would have to remove books like Cinderella and Macbeth, and that that...