M: Hello, Mrs Smith. I’m from the Daily Mirror. And I’m doing a report on public opinion about the city bus service. So, what do you think of the bus service
W: The bus service Actually I don’t use it that often unless I have to go shopping.
M: What’s ... how could the bus service be improved
W: Well, they could turn up on time. I mean you look at the timetable and you think, oh, well, five minutes to wait, and it turns out to be an hour.
M: Do any other people in your family use the bus service
W: My husband. He uses it more often. But fortunately a girl who works in his office often gives him a lift to work. But when he does need to use it, he’s often angry at it. Once, he waited up to fifteen minutes at the station for a bus. So I think there should be some way of warning people when a bus is not going to arrive and certainly much more frequent bus services.
M: Hello, Mrs Smith. I’m from the Daily Mirror. And I’m doing a report on public opinion about the city bus service. So, what do you think of the bus service
W: The bus service Actually I don’t use it that often unless I have to go shopping.
M: What’s ... how could the bus service be improved
W: Well, they could turn up on time. I mean you look at the timetable and you think, oh, well, five minutes to wait, and it turns out to be an hour.
M: Do any other people in your family use the bus service
W: My husband. He uses it more often. But fortunately a girl who works in his office often gives him a lift to work. But when he does need to use it, he’s often angry at it. Once, he waited up to fifteen minutes at the station for a bus. So I think there should be some way of warning people when a bus is not going to arrive and certainly much more frequent bus services.
M: Hello. Mrs. Smith. I’m from The Daily Mirror and I’m doing a report on public opinion about the city bus service. So what do you think of the bus service
W: The bus service Actually I don’t use that often unless I have to go shopping.
M: But how could the bus service be improved
W: Well, they should turn up on time. I mean when you see the timetable, you think "Oh well, five minutes to wait" but it turns out to be an hour.
M: Do any other people in your family use the bus service
W: My husband. He uses it more often. Fortunately, a girl who works in his office often gives him a lift into work. But when he does need to use it, he’s often angry at it. Once he waited up to 50 minutes at the station for a bus. There should be some ways of warning people when a bus is not going to arrive and certainly much more frequent bus services.
Interviewer: Where do you get your idea from, Mrs. Rowling
Rowling: I wish I knew. Sometimes they just come like magic and other times I have to sit and think for weeks before I manage to work out how something will happen. Where the idea for Harry Potter actually came from I really couldn’t tell you. I was just traveling on a train
between Manchester and London and it just popped into my head. I spent four hours thinking about what Hogwarts would be like—the most interesting train journey I’ve ever taken. By the time I got off at King’s Cross many of the characters in the books had already been invented.
Interviewer: Are any of the characters in the books based on real people
Rowling: Tricky question! The answer is yes, and no. I have to confess that Hermione Granger is a little bit like I was at her age, though I was neither as clever nor as annoying. Ron is a little bit like my oldest friends and Professor Snape is a lot
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