There was just one problem, though She just wasn't organised enough! And in any case, her imagination was far too wild for dull paperwork! Eventually it was her imagination that worked miracles for her on a train journey from Manchester to London, she thought up story about a young boy who goes to a school of wizardry The main character, Harry Potter, even had the same thick glasses that she wore at school J.K. Rowling became rich and famous overnight with fans over the world As she writes in one of her books, "it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.