J. K. ROWLING She became insecure at the prospect of attend ing school with older children. Plus she was going through puberty and thus felt very insecure. It also did not help that she wore glasses. "I was quiet, freckly, short-sighted, and rubbish at sports," she once said. But Joanne managed to find her niche at Wyedean. Eventually she found other girls like her quiet, smart, and not quite popular and she became a part of that group. She did quite well in school, with English and foreign languages being her favorite subjects. The youngster slowly began to come out of her shell at Wyedean. She was continuing to write and finally felt confident enough to risk it all by reading some of her stories to her new friends. They liked what they heard and were regularly entertained by Joanne's creative efforts"I used to tell my equally quiet and studious friends long serial stories during lunchtime," she wrote in an essay. "They usually involved us all do ing heroic and daring deeds we certainly would not have done in real life." Joanne breezed through her comprehensive school years on a steady course with relatively few