Harry Potter scribe, J. K. Rowling does tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey on Friday

[HMG Celebrity News] – In a rare treat for Harry Potter fans chief wizard and story teller J. K. Rowling will sit down with Oprah Winfrey on Friday to review her remarkable tale.

From a modest start, being written mostly by hand in various Scottish cafes, 1996′s ‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone’ and its six sequels have sold 400-million copies in print, and grossed over $6-billion at theaters worldwide –  propelling the former welfare recipient to a place on Forbes magazine’s 2010 list of the world’s billionaires.

And on Friday, the reclusive author talks to to Oprah about her remarkable story, including the moment she knew Harry was truly a star.

In 1998, while on tour in the US to promote the second book, ‘Chamber of Secrets,’ Rowling arrived at a book store;

“There was this enormous Barnes & Noble, and the queue snaked up the street and up through four floors, and they took me in the back door,” she recalls. “Then they opened the doors…and people screamed. They screamed! I knew it was getting big but that, for me, was when it felt ‘Beatle-esque.’”

But Joanne also shares that such unbridled success came at a price;

“You ask about the pressure? she muses at one point. “I kept saying to people ‘Yeah, I’m coping,’ But the truth was there were times I was barely hanging on by a thread.”

The first 500 copies of ‘Sorcerer’s Stone’ were given to libraries, just to get people to read them. Those same books are now worth over $40,000 a piece. The 45-year old author got a $2,377 advance for the first manuscript. Now she’s the twelfth richest woman in Britain.

With a success story like that, this is a show you might not want to miss…

Source: Lifeline