J. К. Rowling's Harry Potter Series

K. Rowling and Robert Galbraith, is a British novelist best

known as the author of the Harry Potter series.

England. She wanted to be a writer from an early

age. She wrote her first book at six, which she describes as being,“…a work of towering genius about a rabbit, called Rabbit. I gave it to my mother who said, ‘That’s lovely,’ as a mother would. ‘That’s very, very good.’ I stood there, thinking, ‘Well, get it published then.’ Bit of an odd thing for a child of six to think. I don’t know where it came from…”

to two children, Ian and Vikki Potter and they used

to play witches and wizards together. She liked the surname Potter and never forgot these childhood friends.

«A gang of children including myself and my sister used to play together up and down our street in Winterbourne. Two of the gang members were a brother and sister whose surname was Potter. I always liked the name, but then I was always keener on my friends' surnames than my own».

did well in school, and in her senior year was

the top girl in her class. In fact, Rowling has said that as a child she resembled Hermione Granger, Harry's obsessively studious friend, whom she modeled after herself. Although, Rowling notes, "I was neither as clever or as annoying (I hope!)". At school, Rowling's favorite subjects were English and foreign languages.

by train from Manchester to London, sitting there, thinking of

nothing to do with writing and the idea came out of nowhere and I could see Harry very clearly; this scrawny little boy and it was the most physical rush of excitement. I’ve never felt that excited about anything to do with writing. So I’m rummaging through this bag to try and find a pen or a pencil or anything. I didn’t even have an eyeliner on me. So I just had to sit and think. And for four hours, because they train was delayed, I had all these ideas bubbling up through my head.»

«It was that incredibly elated feeling you get when you’ve just met someone with whom you might eventually fall in love. That was . . that was the kind of feeling I had getting off the train ... »

daughter in 1993. When the marriage ended, she and Jessica

returned to the UK to live in Edinburgh, where Harry Potter & the Philosopher’s Stone was eventually completed. "I was jobless, a lone parent, and as poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain, without being homeless." Joanne would often go to Nicholson's café on North Bridge, which was a warm and comfortable place to sit with a cup of coffee where she could write while the baby slept.

«You know – I was not the world’s most secure person. I was someone with not much self-belief at all and yet in this one thing in my life I believed. I felt I can tell a story»

series it’s hard to believe that twelve publishers rejected the

Sorcerer’s Stone. Thirteen turned-out to be a lucky number. A publisher bewitched by the spectacular tale finally agreed to print it. J. K. signed the deal with a warning from her agent. “You’ll never make money writing children’s books”.

the United Kingdom. After the book sold more than 68,000

copies on the first day of its release in the U.K., American publisher Scholastic ordered an initial print run of half a million copies. The novel quickly took the number one spot on the New York Times bestseller list. Along with other honors, Prisoner of Azkaban was named the Whitbread Book of the Year for 1999.

by Warner Bros. and consists of eight fantasy films beginning

with Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) and culminating with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2.

severe depression for author J.K. Rowling, who fought her own

dementors by creating the magical world of Hogwarts in her tiny Scottish apartment.

pretending to myself that I was anything other than what

I was, and began to direct all my energy to finishing the only work that mattered to me».

J. K. Rowling is the first self-made billionaire author in history, selling more than 400 million books, captivating readers in 69 languages, and 200 countries around the world. Harry’s final chapter – the Deathly Hallows, is the fastest-selling book of all time. No wonder she’s credited with doing more for literacy than anyone else on the planet.

boy wizard with a lightning-shaped scar – a boy with

a magical destiny. It's an epic saga of childhood confusion, danger and adventure. But it's more than just a children's story. Behind the witchcraft and the wizardry lies an intensely moral fable about good and evil, love and hatred, life and death.
In terms of personal identity and character formation, the most important thing Harry learns is not that he has magical power but that it matters how he uses it.

voluntary sacrificial love to rescue others from the forces of

Evil is a pivotal idea to the series and in literary criticism is viewed through the concept of Deeper magic. Harry is sacrificing himself for the wizarding world the way his mother Lily did for him. While his mother's love has marked him for a special destiny, Harry still has to determine what kind of "self" it will take to fulfill that destiny. And that's what makes a whole Harry Potter heroic saga a great quest for identity.

of the Year - 1998 and 1999
Author

of the Year - 1999
Order of the British Empire (OBE) - 2001
Prince of Asturias Award for Concord - 2003
W.H. Smith Fiction Award - 2004
Blue Peter Gold Badge - 2007
James Joyce Award - University College Dublin, 2008
The Edinburgh Award - 2008
Outstanding Achievement Award - South Bank Show Awards, 2008
Lifetime Achievement Award - 2008
Commencement Speaker - Harvard University, U.S.A., 2008
The French Legion of Honour Award

holiday was created in memorial to the epic importance of

the day that Harry Potter defeated the Dark Lord.
With the rise of Harry Potter, nation's youth have displayed a “mania” that has not been seen in reference to books for a long time.

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