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unicorns and all of the fun that is involved in writing that to a book that s intensely personal, that expresses a lot of my reality. reporter: rowling insists the book is not a memoir but did draw on the darker times of her life to craft her characters. we have an adult character that has obsessive compulsive disorder. and these are things i know from the inside, yeah. the ocd part as well. when i was in my teens i had issues with ocd. how did it manifest? compulsions like checking things. it is very common. checking, double checking, triple checking. reporter: some might wonder why rowling, an almost billionaire, would wright a book putting her reputation on the line. how will you decide whether this was a success? it won t sell as many as
i have gone from dragons and unicorns and all of the fun that is involved in writing that to a book that s intensely personal, that expresses a lot of my reality. reporter: rowling insists the book is not a memoir but did draw on the darker times of her life to craft her characters. we have an adult character that has obsessive compulsive disorder these are things i know from the inside, yeah. the ocd part as well. when i was in my teens i had issues with ocd. how did it manifest? compulsions like checking things. it is very common. checking, double checking, triple checking. reporter: some might wonder why, rowling, almost billionaire would write a book putting her reputation on the line. how will you decide whether this was a success? it won t sell as many as