JK Rowling Revealed The Original First Line Of The Harry Potter Books, And I’m Really Glad She Changed It



One of the absolute best things about Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone (or Sorcerer’s Stone, depending on where you live) is the iconic first line. Mr. And Mrs. Dursely of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. In the simplest terms, it’s a statement of location setting to let readers know where the action is about to take place, but it’s actually so much more than that. It injects personality and immediately gives you a sense of the type of people The Durselys must be.

It’s no wonder the line has been singled out over the years, even recently finishing in the top five in a list of the greatest opening lines in literature history, right next to the likes of Nineteen Eighty-Four, Peter Pan and A Tale Of Two Cities. But apparently, that now iconic start wasn’t the first line Rowling wrote for The Philosopher’s Stone. The scribe recently did an interview with The Sunday Times to promote her most recent book The Running Grave, and during the conversation, she was asked about the first line she ever wrote for Harry Potter. Here’s what she said…

The first line I ever wrote of it didn’t end up in the book. It was “The Potter family lived in Darke’s Hollow,” which was the original name for Godric’s Hollow.



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