Dale Neuschwander, a Minnasota native, was a student teacher in the UK and taught Harry Potter author JK Rowling when she was 13 years old (in an Advanced English class).

“The teacher had made notes about his students, to let me know what they were like, and he wrote ‘extremely intelligent’ beside her name,” Neuschwander said.

“She got straight A’s and A-pluses in creative writing,”

“I do recall an extensive vocabulary for one so young,” he said. “I was also amused by her witty use of informal language in essays (slang, regionalisms, etc.). She has a good sense of humor.”

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