Simplify the following text for a Grade 9 native English-speaking person.
Original: J.K. Rowling said that in the hours she waited , her idea for `` this scrawny , black-haired , bespectacled boy who did n't know he was a wizard became more and more real to me . ''
Simplified: She stated that her idea for `` this scrawny , black-haired , bespectacled boy who did n't know he was a wizard became more and more real to me '' .