JK Rowling

JK Rowling holding the book The Half Blood Prince (http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/oct/1 (Damien Pearse))

My hero is JK Rowling. JK Rowling was born on July 31, 1965 at Yate General Hospital in England and grew up in Chepstow, Gwent. Her real name is Joanne Rowling but her friends called her Jo. She is my hero because I think she is generous, always looked on the brighter side of things, and she never stopped doing what she loved. Those are only some of many reasons why I think JK Rowling is my hero.

The first characteristic: I think JK Rowling is being very generous. I think that she deserves that title because on Tuesday 10th December, the Lumos Maxima charm bracelet was sold at Sotheby's London for £20,000 for J.K. Rowling's children's charity, Lumos Maxima. The charity Lumos Maxima (the name "lumos" is from a spell that lights up the room) is a charity that is closing down institutions that care for homeless children that "rob children of their own childhood" as JK Rowling said that in an interview / video on November 19, 2012 of her talking about the new ereader book of Beetle and the Bard. All the money made from the ebooks, goes straight to the funds for the children. After I learned about what the Lumos Maxima Foundation was named,I realized that lumos meant light so the foundation are the children's light in the world that can save them. These are only some reasons why I think JK Rowling is generous.

The second characteristic: JK Rowling is in my opinion is I think she always looked on the brighter side of bad situations. I think she does that because when her mother died, instead of grieving over her mother's death, she incorporated it into the Harry Potter series because Harry's parents died when he was young too. She was married on October 1992 and had a child in 1993. When the marriage ended, she and Jessica returned to the UK to live in Edinburgh, where Harry Potter & the Philosopher's Stone was eventually finished and published instead of grieving over her husband. This is why I think she always looked on the brighter side of things.

The third characteristic: I think JK Rowling is the most important to me. She never stopped doing what she loved. Which in this case is writing and I can tell from when I read on the website she made herself, she even changed her name to J.K. Rowling. The "K", for Kathleen, her paternal grandmother's name was added because of her publisher's request who thought that a woman's name would not appeal to a large amount of young boys. Another reason why I think of her as this characteristic is because even after she finished writing the Harry Potter Series, she wrote an actual copy of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Quidditch Through The Ages which was published in March 2001 for the charity Comic Relief, another British Charity that JK Rowling did not form. That is why I think JK Rowling never stops doing what she loves to do.

In conclusion, those were only some characteristics I could use to describe JK Rowling. JK Rowling's story touched my heart when I read it. The Harry Potter Series inspired me to start writing my own stories. When I heard that she created her own charity called "the light", it touched my heart because children could look up to her like a hero the way I do. That is why I think JK Rowling is a hero and think of her as a hero because she is generous, always looked on the brighter side of things, and she never stopped doing what she loved.