Author J.K. Rowling clears up this and a host of other Riddikulus rumors.
But “Potter” truly started even before that. Rowling has already said that she came up with the initial* If you define the birthplace of Harry Potter as the moment when I had the initial idea, then it was a Manchester-London train. But I'm perennially amused by the idea that Hogwarts was directly inspired by beautiful places I saw or visited, because it's so far from the truth.
This building is in Manchester and used to be the Bourneville Hotel . Anyway, I spent a single night there in 1991, and when I left next morning, I'd invented Quidditch.
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