"However, my parents, both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing personal quirk that would never pay a mortgage, or secure a pension. "I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do, ever, was to write novels," Rowling said in her 2008 Harvard University commencement speech. Her parents married when they were 20, and neither attended college: Her father was an aircraft engineer at Rolls Royce and her mother was a high school science technician. When she was nine, Rowling moved near the Forest of Dean, which figures prominently in "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," and spent the rest of her childhood there. And ever since Rabbit and Miss Bee, I have wanted to be a writer, though I rarely told anyone so." "He got the measles and was visited by his friends, including a giant bee called Miss Bee. "Certainly the first story I ever wrote down (when I was five or six) was about a rabbit called Rabbit," Rowling said in a 1998 interview. Rowling was constantly writing and telling stories to her younger sister, Dianne. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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