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Jo always loved writing more than anything. Her favourite subject by far was English, but she also liked languages. She was quiet, freckly, short-sighted and not very good at sports. Jo was in the ‘stupid’ row, ‘as far right as you could possibly get without sitting in the playground’.įrom Tutshill Primary, Jo went to Wyedean Comprehensive. Jo soon realised that Mrs Morgan seated her pupils according to how clever she thought they were: the brightest sat to her left, and those she thought were dim were seated to her right. So Jo was seated in the row of desks far to the right of Mrs Morgan. It wasn’t that Jo was stupid – she had never done fractions before.

On the first day of school, she gave Jo an arithmetic test, which she failed, scoring zero out of ten. The roll-top desks in the classrooms still had the old ink wells. Tutshill Primary School was a very small and very old-fashioned place. For Jo, the worst thing about her new home was her new school. Jo loved living in the countryside and spent most of her time wandering across fields and along the river Wye with her sister. Two of her friends were a brother and sister whose surname just happened to be Potter! The second move was when Jo was nine and she moved to Tutshill near Chepstow in the Forest of Dean. Jo, her sister and friends used to play together in her street in Winterbourne. The first move was from Yate (just outside Bristol in the south west of England) to Winterbourne. Jo moved house twice when she was growing up.

Such a funny-sounding name for a birthplace may have contributed to her talent for collecting odd names.

(Jo) Rowling was born in Chipping Sodbury in the UK in 1965.

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