


In August 1996, after the manuscript was turned down by 12 publishers, Bloomsbury Publishing purchased the rights and published Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in June 1997. I began to write 'Philosopher's Stone' that very evening, although those first few pages bear no resemblance to anything in the finished book. Perhaps, if I had slowed down the ideas to capture them on paper, I might have stifled some of them (although sometimes I do wonder, idly, how much of what I imagined on that journey I had forgotten by the time I actually got my hands on a pen). I simply sat and thought, for four (delayed train) hours, while all the details bubbled up in my brain, and this scrawny, black-haired, bespectacled boy who didn't know he was a wizard became more and more real to me. I did not have a functioning pen with me, but I do think that this was probably a good thing. To my immense frustration, I didn't have a pen that worked, and I was too shy to ask anybody if I could borrow one. I had been writing almost continuously since the age of six but I had never been so excited about an idea before. After a weekend's flat-hunting, I was traveling back to London on my own on a crowded train, and the idea for Harry Potter simply fell into my head. My then boyfriend and I had decided to move up to Manchester together.

Rowling discussed the origins of the series: While developers quickly addressed the problem months ago, the currently active Caldera locale has already found itself infested with soaring vehicles.J.K. Players first began noticing the so-called "Harry Potter Meta" in Warzone's recently removed Verdansk map. Instead, cheaters used the flying car trick to propel themselves into the air for an overview of the entire map, a view that allowed them to pick off unsuspecting enemies with ease. Hackers found a way to launch Call of Duty: Warzone vehicles sky high, culminating in countless memes likening the strange occurrences to Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets' flying car scene. The hacks weren't just designed to give players an aerial joyride, however. Warzone's flying car issue originally reared its head in the final months of 2021, despite Activision's ongoing efforts to curtail the rise of in-game cheaters and hackers. Prominent YouTube streamer TimtheTatman shared a clip mocking the flying car hack in Call of Duty: Warzone, which recently resurfaced to the chagrin of active players.
