>>6135367>>6135585>why Rita Skeeter is the most important character in Harry PotterIn summary:
-JK Rowling hates journalists
-UK tabloid press journalists uncovered her relationship to the Portguese father of her daughter, Jorge Arantes who was himself also a journalist (tv reporter?) He was apparently violent and abusive, once punching her in the face in the street (he hasn't denied it and claims she "deserved it")
2023 Feb
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11779995/JK-Rowlings-whirlwind-marriage-Portuguese-violent-husband-Jorge-Arantes.html>Arantes is said to live a solitary life in Porto, the city where the former couple met more than 30 years ago when JK was 23. After a night of drinking and chat in the early 1990s, love then blossomed having found they had a shared interest in Jane Austen.>But Ms Rowling, now happily married to Dr Neil Murray for the past 21 years, had hinted there had been violence in their short-lived relationship until 2020, when she revealed he had beaten her in the street. When confronted by reporters he was unrepentant, admitting he hit her hard in the face and didn't regret it>And yesterday the Edinburgh-based author claimed her abusive first husband kept the first Harry Potter manuscript ‘hostage’, the Philosopher's Stone, to stop her leaving him. >The multi-award winning author said she was forced to sneak the precious notes out of the house a few pages at a time and photocopy them at work, so concerned was she that Arantes would destroy the work that later transformed her life and made her a $1billion (£850million) fortune. Arantes, in contrast, was reportedly on benefits and did not work for a number of years.>>6135103>>6135427Ms Rowling first opened up about the violence she suffered in a personal essay published in the summer of 2020, and Mr Arantes said that he was ‘not sorry’.
‘When I realised I was definitely going to go,’ Ms Rowling told the podcast about that period in her life, ‘I would take a few pages of the manuscript into work every day, just a few pages so he wouldn’t realise anything was missing, and I would photocopy it.
‘Gradually in a cupboard in the staff room, bit by bit, a photocopied manuscript grew and grew because I suspected that if I wasn’t able to get out with everything, he would burn it or take it and hold it hostage.
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The podcast interview quotes with JK Rowling I believe is this (text transcripts here)
https://podscripts.co/podcasts/the-witch-trials-of-jk-rowling/chapter-1-plotted-in-darknessAlso, is it weird how this photo of her ex-partner actually looks a bit like what I imagine an adult, bohemian Harry Potter would resemble lol
