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"I was the biggest failure I knew": J.K. Rowling's Hustle To Become a $1.2 Billion Rich Author Shows Why There Can't Be Another Harry Potter

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Before the Hogwarts Express ever left Platform 9¾ in our imaginations, J.K. Rowling was fighting her own battles in the Muggle world: loneliness, financial strain, rejected manuscripts, and the quiet fear that maybe she had aimed too high. In her 2008 Harvard Commencement Speech, she reflected on those years as some of the darkest of her life: The fears that my parents had had for me and that I had had for myself had both come to pass, and by e…
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FandomWire broke the news in on Monday, December 8, 2025.
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