Harry Potter wasn’t really born in a café. On Thursday, J.K. Rowling revealed the true “birthplace” of her blockbuster book series after being asked whether she came up with the idea at a café called The Elephant House.
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She then revealed that the place where she first started writing the novels was at a flat she was renting in Clapham Junction in London.
She then added that by another definition of “birthplace,” the series was technically conceived on a train from Manchester to London.