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| | Albus Dumbledore, St Michael's School and the Winterbourne connection. History and information about the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | Joanne Kathleen Rowling lived in Nicholls Lane, Winterbourne until she was nine and it was during her time here that she played games of witches and wizards with her sister Diane and her friends the Potter children. |
 | | She went to school at St Michael's School, High Street, Winterbourne but in 1970 the school and pupils moved to new premises in Linden Close and she continued her schooling there (until the family moved to Tutshill, Chepstow). |
 | | It was her Headmaster, Alf Dunn, that she later took as a model for Albus Dumbledore, the kind and revered Headmaster of Hogwarts, in her stories. |
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