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J.K.Rowling, who celebrates her birthday on July 31 — the same day that the hero of the Potter was born, grew up in Gloucestershire in England and in Chepstow, Gwent, in south-east Wales. The philanthropist also lived in Paris for a year when she was a student. Let's take a look inside the house where the author wrote the first four of the Potter series.
[ ] was in a 19-century mansion in Abbotsford Park, which has since been sold, where JK Rowling and her family—husband Neil, daughters Jessica and Mackenzie, and son David lived when she wrote four of the seven Harry Potter novels. Built on two floors, the house [ ] landscaped gardens and several outhouses [ ] a detached split-level office. Since Rowling [ ] to Barnton in the north-west of Edinburgh in 2009, it has been [ ]. The house was purchased by an unnamed local Scottish businessman for more than the GBP 2.25 million.
The stone-built house comes with eight bedrooms, landscaped gardens and original cornices and fireplaces in one of Edinburgh's exclusive conservation areas. The house earned the name 'Fortress Rowling' by some [ ] its security fences and reinforced doors. Giant trees were added to give Rowling and her family more privacy. [ ] popular belief, secret passageways and magic rooms are conspicuously absent from the erstwhile Rowling mansion. You don't need a Marauder's Map to take a peek inside this mansion.