J. K. Rowling

b. 1965 · British novelist · author of the Harry Potter series

Joanne Rowling was born on 31 July 1965 in Yate, Gloucestershire, and is best known for the seven-volume Harry Potter series, which began with Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in June 1997. Goblet of Fire, the fourth book, arrived on 8 July 2000 — the first in the series published in Britain and America on the same day. The house-elf storyline that produces this line is one of the series’ running arguments about servitude and how the powerful behave when nobody is watching.

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“If You Want to Know What a Man's Like, Look at How He Treats His Inferiors”

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