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The best-selling author JK Rowling has disclosed that her mother died without knowing anything about Harry Potter. JK Rowling and partner arrive at a Harry Potter premiere Photo: JOHN TAYLOR The writer said she began working on the tales of the apprentice wizard just six months before her mother, Anne, died of multiple sclerosis (MS) at the age of 45. She said it was a "real regret" that she never told her mother she was writing the stories, which would go on to be adored around the world. The Edinburgh-based author, patron of the Multiple Sclerosis Society Scotland, also voiced frustration at the level of funding available for research into the debilitating disease. Miss Rowling made the statements in a rare interview for a BBC Scotland documentary on the condition. The author told the programme: "I started writing Harry six... [read full story]
