This story began on a train traveling from Manchester to London. Outside the window, gloomy English landscapes flashed by—those very scenes inspired Joan Rowling to create a book about a boy wizard. Only seven years later, after long wanderings through publishing houses, an unknown translator managed to have the novel “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” printed in a run of just 1,000 copies. Since then, books about the boy who lived have become among the best-selling books in history. This book is about how an ordinary translator from Gloucestershire, writing a few books, was able to change the world for the better.