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21.02.2023 - 15:35 / dailyrecord.co.uk
JK Rowling has revealed her abusive ex-husband hid the manuscript for the first Harry Potter novel in a bid to stop her from leaving him. The author said Portuguese TV reporter Jorge Arantes kept the pages of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone like a "hostage" and she feared he would burn them.
After discovering where the manuscript was, she secretly started photocopying a few pages each day to ensure her work would not be lost. Rowling, 57, married Arantes in 1992 after meeting him in a bar in Portugal where she had moved to work as a teacher following her mother's death.
The couple had a daughter Jessica, now 29, but she left in 1993 after Arantes dragged her out of their home and attacked her. She said: "The marriage had turned very violent and very controlling. He was searching my handbag every time I came home and I didn't have a key to my own front door.
"It was a horrible state of tension to live in because I had to act as though I wasn't going and I don't think I'm a very good actor. That's a terrible way to live and yet the manuscript kept growing, I had continued to write.
"He knew what that manuscript meant to me because at a point he took the manuscript and hid it. That was his hostage. When I realised I was definitely going to go, I would take a few pages of the manuscript into work every day, just a few pages so he wouldn't realise anything was missing, and I would photocopy it.
"Gradually in a cupboard in the staff room, bit by bit, a photocopied manuscript grew and grew because I suspected that if I wasn't able to get out with everything he would burn it or take it and hold it hostage. That manuscript meant so much to me and it was the thing that I prioritised saving.
"The only thing I prioritised beyond
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According to JK Rowling, her abusive ex-husband tried to prevent her from leaving him by hiding the first Harry Potter book’s manuscript. According to the author, she worried that Portuguese TV reporter Jorge Arantes might burn the pages of “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” that he was holding as “hostage.”
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