Simplify the following text for a Grade 9 native English-speaking person.
Original: Rowling explained that Harry 's image came to her when she first thought up Harry Potter , seeing him as a `` scrawny , black-haired , bespectacled boy '' .
Simplified: She explained that this image simply came to her when she first thought up Harry Potter , seeing him as a `` scrawny , black-haired , bespectacled boy '' .