Harry Potter taught me all I know, says Alex Batty

Harry Potter taught me all I know, says Alex Batty who never went to school while on the run with mother for six years but instead read all of the boy wizard’s books 20 times

• Alex Batty, 17, taught himself by reading JK Rowling’s Harry Potter books
• While missing for six years, the youngster read each novel ‘at least 20 times’ 

CHRIS MATTHEWS FROM DAILYMAIL

Alex Batty taught himself all he knows by reading the Harry Potter books over and over.

British schoolboy Alex Batty claimed his mother didn’t want him to be a ‘slave to the system’ as they flitted across Europe living a nomadic hippy lifestyle after she allegedly abducted him.

Alex revealed that as they seldom had wifi, his main hobby was reading JK Rowling‘s hit novels about a boy wizard.

He has read each of the seven books ‘at least 20 times’, he told The Sun.  

The 17-year-old spent six years off the grid with his mother, Melanie Batty, and her father, David, as they bounced between homes on the continent afterAlex was allegedly being kidnapped aged 11…