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Rowling is often portrayed as a Cinderella figure, a kind of female Harry who lived, if not in a cupboard, at least in very reduced circumstances. This has caused many myths to grow up about her pre-fame days, some of which are rather humorous. One story alleged that she wrote her first book on table napkins, as if she was unable to afford a notepad. ‘The next thing’, she joked, ‘they’ll be telling me I wrote it on used tea bags.’