Even if you're not a Harry Potter fan, you probably know a lot about the young glasses-wearing wizard and his adventures at Hogwarts School. With millions spent over the past fifteen years on advertising and promotion for the seven books in the series—each book also having been made into a movie—the story has been impossible to avoid. Surprisingly, some have even called author J. K. Rowling "the most imaginative writer of all time." Where does that kind of inspiration come from? As it turns out, you don't need to have a wildly exciting life in order to create one in your imagination. In fact, an average childhood with an average amount of boredom allowed J. K. Rowling to escape to the excitement of her own mind. Her first story was written for her younger sister. In the story, her sister fell into a rabbit hole and was fed strawberries by the rabbit.