JK Rowling (The Rags to Riches Story thats a load of crap

Rowling's welfare assistance wasn't out of total desperation, it was out of choice. She was an educated teacher who left her job when she had a child. After that, she chose not to work and, instead, collected welfare to get the time to write her book.

There could be a lot more to her former life than we all know. I feel sorry for celebrities. There could be one negative comment or story said about their life, and everyone (mostly everyone) will believe it ALL to be true.:sad2:
 

My guess is that the UK government has more than made back what it doled out to her *in taxes on her wealth alone*.

Dang, good point.

It appears you are under the imperious curse. :wizard:

:rotfl:



Who knows if it's true, but I don't care. My mom went purposely on welfare after I was born and my dad moved out...he didn't send money, he didn't watch us and wouldn't have wanted an overnight with me (or us, once brother was born). We lived on food stamps, a bit of welfare money, the garden, and eggs from the chickens (NOT the meat, I would have flipped out, they were my pets). She felt it was important to be there with us, so she was home until I was 4 and my brother was 2 (which is the age that he self-weaned and I was forcibly weaned, again). Got about 4 jobs, sent us to Montessori (one of her jobs was to clean the school), and went on with her life.

Certainly am not going to get angry with JKR if she did something similar.


I had some cyber friends (all English majors, incidentally) who felt that there's simply NO WAY that an uneducated person (though they always said "woman") could have written those books, and that she must have had a ghostwriter for them. And I'm thinkin'....yeah, no. I think that person would have said something by now.
 
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I had some cyber friends (all English majors, incidentally) who felt that there's simply NO WAY that an uneducated person (though they always said "woman") could have written those books, and that she must have had a ghostwriter for them. And I'm thinkin'....yeah, no. I think that person would have said something by now.

It sounds like they had wrackspurts buzzing around in their ears. :sad2:
 
I think the OP ate a Bertie Bott's vomit flavored jelly bean...
 
I think the Bertie Bott's bean may have been... troll flavored :rolleyes1
 
All these references to the wizarding world- I'm gonna have to read them all over again!!!

Can't wait!!
 
The Rags to Riches Story:

Every single article and every single Harry Potter book jacket seems to work in JK Rowling's humble beginnings as a single mother on government assistance. She then pulled herself up by her bootstraps and wrote one of the most successful series of books in the history of words.

Why it's a Load of Crap:

It's one thing to be born into poverty and claw your way out of it. However, it's a whole different game when your two-year stint on welfare is part of your business plan. Welcome to the Rowling School of Writing.



Rowling's welfare assistance wasn't out of total desperation, it was out of choice. She was an educated teacher who left her job when she had a child. After that, she chose not to work and, instead, collected welfare to get the time to write her book.

While we are not denying for one moment that trying to care for a child, write a book and work full time would be very difficult, we will say that it's not impossible. People do it. Instead, she basically got her book advance courtesy of UK citizens. She also got a generous arts grant (unprecedented for an unknown author) to complete her work when the welfare check wasn't cutting it.

So this was a person who did spend a very brief time in rags, but she went to the store and hand-picked the rags she chose to wear.

What exactly is your point in posting this?

Does any of this take away from the fact that she is an extremely talented writer that can capture the imagination to millions of children and adults alike?

Does it in any way make a difference in the popularity of the books and movies and the coming theme park?

You mention an arts grant and that it was unprecedented for an unknown author. Are you trying to say that she cheated somehow and got this? If not, then it sounds to me like that was a pretty good thing that she was able to do.

Regardless of her "back story", which really wasn't even necessary; the woman has done something pretty amazing. Getting that many children to read that many books and be that happy in doing so--pretty darn big accomplishment in my book.

Personally, I am just hoping that she is, at this very moment, dreaming of new characters and new settings and is planning to start the whole amazing adventure over again!
 
I had some cyber friends (all English majors, incidentally) who felt that there's simply NO WAY that an uneducated person (though they always said "woman") could have written those books, and that she must have had a ghostwriter for them. And I'm thinkin'....yeah, no. I think that person would have said something by now.

I'm not sure what her publicity is like in the US but is there the belief that J.K. Rowling is uneducated?

She has a BA in French and Classics and, at least in the UK, there has been no attempt to hide this. It's even referenced on her publishers bio page (google for scholastic.)

AFAIK she had a pretty comfortable middle class childhood, it's well known she was an unemployed single mother but I wonder if the "rags to riches" thing is more to the fore in the US because being on "welfare" has very different social connotations?
 
I'm not sure what her publicity is like in the US but is there the belief that J.K. Rowling is uneducated?

She has a BA in French and Classics and, at least in the UK, there has been no attempt to hide this. It's even referenced on her publishers bio page (google for scholastic.)

AFAIK she had a pretty comfortable middle class childhood, it's well known she was an unemployed single mother but I wonder if the "rags to riches" thing is more to the fore in the US because being on "welfare" has very different social connotations?

I wondered where that came from, as well. Everything I've seen or read about her has mentioned the fact that she was college educated (and wasn't she also a teacher for awhile?) I thought she was on the dole because she'd recently divorced. :confused3
 
I'm not sure what her publicity is like in the US but is there the belief that J.K. Rowling is uneducated?

She has a BA in French and Classics and, at least in the UK, there has been no attempt to hide this. It's even referenced on her publishers bio page (google for scholastic.)

AFAIK she had a pretty comfortable middle class childhood, it's well known she was an unemployed single mother but I wonder if the "rags to riches" thing is more to the fore in the US because being on "welfare" has very different social connotations?

In the USA, it is generally assumed that only Squibs go on welfare. It's just a myth of course, but stereotypes can be hard to break at times.
 
While we're at it...perhaps the OP is a Dementor. sucking the joy from us all?
 













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