Harry Potter was born in Clapham Junction

Clapham Junction has little in common with Hogwarts, Diagon Alley or other places in the Harry Potter wizarding world – it is not even the station Harry and pals use to get to school.

No wonder then that JK Rowling caused quite the stir last month when she shared the real birthplace of the boy who lived.

JK Rowling revealed the news on her official Twitter account with a photo of Flight Centre at 94 St John's Road in Clapham Junction.

She wrote: "This is the true birthplace of Harry Potter, if you define 'birthplace' as the spot where I put pen to paper for the first time.* I was renting a room in a flat over what was then a sports shop. The first bricks of Hogwarts were laid in a flat in Clapham Junction.

Rowling then shared another location though, in effect letting fans decide where Harry Potter came to life.

She wrote: "*If you define the birthplace of Harry Potter as the moment when I had the initial idea, then it was a Manchester-London train. But I'm perennially amused by the idea that Hogwarts was directly inspired by beautiful places I saw or visited, because it's so far from the truth."

Clapham Junction may not have hosted Platform Nine and Three-Quarters, but Nub News has noticed a pretty major clue of its prominent place in Harry Potter – one so huge it proves once and for all that Harry Potter was born in Clapham.

Can you find it ?

Nub News will be dropping hints this week, so stay tuned OR see if you can beat us to it and crown Clapham the official birthplace of the entire wizarding world.

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