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K Rowling was reading The Sunday Times in the summer of 2004 when a photograph stopped her in her tracks. There in black-and-white was a small shaven-headed boy, about five years old, his face pressed against the wire of what looked like a cage. “My initial reaction was to turn the page,” she says, sitting at her kitchen table amid the homely comforts of an Aga and duck-egg-blue Shaker-style units. “But I told myself I had to read the article and, if it was as bad as the photo made it look, I needed to do something about it.”
The story was harrowing. “The screaming starts at 11am sharp each day in the basement of the Raby care home, near Prague,” The Sunday Times
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