The story of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child begins nineteen years after the events of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and follows Harry Potter, now a Ministry of Magic employee, and his younger son Albus Severus Potter.

J. K. Rowling was born in Yate, Gloucestershire, England on 31 July 1965. The town is to the north-east of Bristol city centre, which is about 11 miles away by road.

Her parents first met on a train departing from King's Cross Station bound for Arbroath in 1964. They married on 14 March 1965.

She caused a scandal when she killed him off at the end of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, but Albus Dumbledore is still the character J.K. Rowling would most like to have dinner with. "We would have a lot to discuss," she says, "and I would love his advice; I think that everyone would like a Dumbledore in their lives."

The Casual Vacancy (2012) is set in a suburban West Country town called Pagford and begins with the death of beloved Parish Councillor Barry Fairbrother. Subsequently, a seat on the council is vacant and a conflict ensues before the election for his successor takes place.

On 26 December 2001, Rowling married Neil Michael Murray, an anaesthetist, in a private ceremony at her home, Killiechassie House, near Aberfeldy.

Pottermore is the global digital publisher of Harry Potter and J.K. Rowling's Wizarding World. It offers news, features, and articles as well as new and previously unreleased writing by Rowling.

Rowling, once a single parent, served as president of the charity Gingerbread (originally One Parent Families).

Rowling has described Jane Austen as her favourite author, citing Emma as her favourite book.

Rowling was working as a researcher and bilingual secretary for Amnesty International when she came up with the idea for the Harry Potter series during a train ride from Manchester to London. The seven-year period that followed saw the death of her mother, birth of her first child, divorce from her first husband and relative poverty until 1997 when she finished the first novel in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.