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The Harry Potter series are seven Fantasy Novels written by J.K Rowling and are one of the Best selling series of all time. They have been published into 67 different languages. The story is based around none other than Harry Potter, A skinny, orphaned boy with jet black hair, bright green eyes and glasses. He grows up with his horrid Aunt, Uncle and cousin until one special day, his eleventh birthday, he gets a shocking visit from a gigantic man who tells him he is a wizard.

Young Harry discovers that his parents were murdered by the notorious Dark Wizard, Lord Voldemort. For unknown reasons Harry Potter, only a baby at the time, managed to survive Voldemort's attack and cause, instead, for the Dark Lord himself to disappear. It was unknown to the wizarding world whether he died or went into hiding and each had their own belief as to what happened..

Harry soon attends Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry meeting his two friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. Together the trio come across a number of challenges and each book leading up to an encounter with Voldemort (Who comes back through various half life forms in an attempt regain full power) or one of his evil followers known as death eaters who try to kill Harry.

The books are published in the U.S by Scholastic Press, In the U.K by Bloomsbury, in Canada by Raincoast Books and Australia and New Zealand by Allen and Unwin. They also have all been translated and published into 67 different languages. The Harry Potter Series was also published into an United States version so as to avoid confusion with differences in spelling and meanings between the British and American English languages.

There are multiple book covers for different languages and editions around the world but the three most common are the Scholastic, Bloomsbury and Adult covers. They can all be bought as Paperback and Hardcover books and also come in Complete Series Packs with all seven novels.

The seven books are titled;

• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Or Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the U.S),
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban,
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,
• Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
• and the final book is titled Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

Three supplementary books that J.K Rowling wrote to raise money for charity are called

• Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,
• Quidditch Through the Ages
• and Tales of Beedle the Bard.

Each of the short works and their contents are mentioned throughout the series.

Ms. Rowling also wrote a pre-quel to the series in 2008. The short story is about an adventure Harry's father James Potter and Godfather Sirius Black have when they encounter a Muggle (Non Wizard) policeman. Written on a card by Rowling, the story sold for €24,000. The pre-quel was published online as a fundraiser set up by the company Waterstone's and can be read below thanks to GryffindorGazette.com. To read press Ctrl + F and type pre-quel without the hyphen/dash (-) OR scroll down till you find it.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone;

This is the first book in the 7 book series by J.K. Rowling and starts the 7 year journey following the young orphaned wizard, Harry Potter.

It introduces us, along with Harry, to the secret magical world full of wizards and witches aswell as the magical school - Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He makes new friends and foes, discovers new places and creatures - as well as learning magic at his new school. The story takes you on a exciting adventure with great morals and gets your imagination working.

The Philosopher's Stone is the only book that has been translated into Latin (In which many names and terms are written in in the English edition) and Ancient Greek. It was also renamed Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone for the U.S. edition.

Almost as soon as Harry and his new friends become accustomed to the new School and living space strange happenings occur. Odd warnings about the third floor from the school's headmaster, Proffessor Dumbledore sparks the three children's curiousity. Midnight escapades, numerous fearsome deadly creatures, new enemies, a nasty teacher and a big mystery keep Harry, Ron and Hermione (and readers) busy throughout the book.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets;

The Chamber of Secrets is a exciting, adventurous sequel to the bestselling Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and also made a big hit throughout the world.

In this interesting tale Harry returns to Hogwarts for another riveting year of learning magic - but he gets more than he bargained for! With continuous surprise visits from a strange creature with weird warnings, Seeming abandonment by his friends, hearing voices no one else can hear and getting caught int he wrong place at the wrong time frequently is a lot for the now 12 Year old Harry Potter.

As he and his friends take us on another journey to unravel yet another mystery at Hogwarts, weird attacks on students are happening around the school. With the discovery of a new talent of Harry's that is regarded as evil and him being caught at the scene of the attacks afterwards, rumours stir and accusations are thrown at the favourited hero.

Harry, Ron and Hermione have to find the clues and solve the mystery fast before it's too late and someone gets killed, like the myth of the Chamber of Secrets says, and the school closes down.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban;

Harry Potter's third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is fastly approaching and the now teenage boy is excited about returning to his adopted true home. He has been looking forward to going back to see all his friends and be allowed to learn and practice magic ever since the beginning of his bland Summer holidays stuck with the Dursley's.

After a law breaking magical encounter with his Uncle Vernon's horrid sister, Marge, Harry flees the house, trunk in hand. Unaware of the newly arison dangers he has exposed himself to, he makes off into the Muggle world angry, frustrated, confused and alone. Harry encounters a close shave with an unknown creature, evades explusion from Hogwarts and is the object of killing desire from a recent Azkaban Prison escapee. All this before he even starts school is just the lining of a trail of numerous thrilling narrow escapes and life and death situations.

In this slightly more cynical novel the famous trio escapade through more hazardous situations of a little more eerie sense. Encountering the trials and tribulations of becoming teenagers on top of the added conflicting drama causes emotions to run wild. But emotions aren't the only things running wild at Hogwarts this year. Stories of Omens, Dangerous creatures, Mysterious occurences and a psychotic prisoner escapee just to name a few.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix;

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince;

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows;

The final installment in the series, Deathly Hallows is the story of events leading up to the end of the beloved tale of Harry Potter. Harry must hunt for ad destroy all the Horcruxes but having to stay hidden from the entire world, having a price on your head for your capture, with a bunch of death eaters and voldemort himself on your tail and the dark side quickly gaining control of both the wizarding and muggle world makes this year of Harry's task more challenging than ever.

Wrapping up the now young man, Harry Potter, and his friends adventures with a final battle the last novel leaves a sense of deep sadness for the stories death. Although, it also kindles a feeling of satisfaction, happiness and contentment with the epilogue for the 7 books at the end of the novel entitled "19 Years Later". Without revealing too much of what happens incase you have not read the book yet, the epilogue explains the after-happenings of the long story the world grew to love and Rowling leaves the reader with something to feel happy about even though the story has come to a close.

Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them;

Quidditch Through the Ages;

Tales of Beedle the Bard;

J.K. Rowling has announced that she will soon begin writing an Encyclopedia based on the Magical World of Harry Potter. The book will contain all sorts of information on the books, characters, creatures etc. including unknown secrets and parts of the story she hasn't yet revealed to her fans. The new announcement has rekindled Harry Potter lovers' hope everywhere and Rowling says it will hopefully completed within the next 5 or so years.

Jo states that she "intends to publish a definitive guide to all of the creatures, characters, places, and other elements that comprise the Harry Potter world." She also says she might write full biographical accounts of minor characters and will not be leaving out any information - even if it's already in the novels. The billionnaire author intends to include everything to do with her Magical Wizarding work and all proceeds of the Encyclopedia will be given to charity.

More updates as they come up so check back regularly.

THE HARRY POTTER PREQUEL, BY JK ROWLING

The speeding motorcycle took the sharp corner so fast in the darkness that both policemen in the pursuing car shouted ‘whoa!’ Sergeant Fisher slammed his large foot on the brake, thinking that the boy who was riding pillion was sure to be flung under his wheels; however, the motorbike made the turn without unseating either of its riders, and with a wink of its red tail light, vanished up the narrow side street.

‘We’ve got ‘em now!” cried PC Anderson excitedly. ‘That’s a dead end!”

Leaning hard on the steering wheel and crashing his gears, Fisher scraped half the paint off the flank of the car as he forced it up the alleyway in pursuit.

There in the headlights sat their quarry, stationary at last after a quarter of an hour’s chase. The two riders were trapped between a towering brick wall and the police car, which was now crashing towards them like some growling, luminous-eyed predator.

There was so little space between the car doors and the walls of the alley that Fisher and Anderson had difficulty extricating themselves from the vehicle. It injured their dignity to have to inch, crab-like, towards the miscreants. Fisher dragged his generous belly along the wall, tearing buttons off his shirt as he went, and finally snapping off the wing mirror with his backside.

‘Get off the bike!’ he bellowed at the smirking youths, who sat basking in the flashing blue light as though enjoying it.

They did as they were told. Finally pulling free from the broken wind mirror, Fisher glared at them. They seemed to be in their late teens. The one who had been driving had long black hair; his insolent good looks reminded Fisher unpleasantly of his daughter’s guitar-playing, layabout boyfriend. The second boy also had black hair, though his was short and stuck up in all directions; he wore glasses and a broad grin. Both were dressed in T-shirts emblazoned with a large golden bird; the emblem, no doubt, of some deafening, tuneless rock band.

‘No helmets!’ Fisher yelled, pointing from one uncovered head to the other. ‘Exceeding the speed limit by – by a considerable amount!’ (In fact, the speed registered had been greater than Fisher was prepared to accept that any motorcycle could travel.) ‘Failing to stop for the police!’

‘We’d have loved to stop for a chat,’ said the boy in glasses, ‘only we were trying -’

‘Don’t get smart – you two are in a heap of trouble!’ snarled Anderson. ‘Names!’

‘Names?’ repeated the long-haired driver. ‘Er – well, let’s see. There’s Wilberforce… Bathsheba… Elvendork…’

‘And what’s nice about that one is, you can use it for a boy or a girl,’ said the boy in glasses.

‘Oh, OUR names, did you mean?’ asked the first, as Anderson spluttered with rage. ‘You should’ve said! This here is James Potter, and I’m Sirius Black!’

‘Things’ll be seriously black for you in a minute, you cheeky little -’

But neither James nor Sirius was paying attention. They were suddenly as alert as gundogs, staring past Fisher and Anderson, over the roof of the police car, at the dark mouth of the alley. Then, with identical fluid movements, they reached into their back pockets.

For the space of a heartbeat both policemen imagined guns gleaming at them, but a second later they saw that the motorcyclists had drawn nothing more than -

‘Drumsticks?’ jeered Anderson. ‘Right pair of jokers, aren’t you? Right, we’re arresting you on a charge of -’

But Anderson never got to name the charge. James and Sirius had shouted something incomprehensible, and the beams from the headlights had moved.

The policemen wheeled around, then staggered backwards. Three men were flying – actually FLYING – up the alley on broomsticks – and at the same moment, the police car was rearing up on its back wheels.

Fisher’s knees bucked; he sat down hard; Anderson tripped over Fisher’s legs and fell on top of him, as FLUMP – BANG – CRUNCH – they heard the men on brooms slam into the upended car and fall, apparently insensible, to the ground, while broken bits of broomstick clattered down around them.

The motorbike had roared into life again. His mouth hanging open, Fisher mustered the strength to look back at the two teenagers.

‘Thanks very much!’ called Sirius over the throb of the engine. ‘We owe you one!’

‘Yeah, nice meeting you!’ said James. ‘And don’t forget: Elvendork! It’s unisex!’

There was an earth-shattering crash, and Fisher and Anderson threw their arms around each other in fright; their car had just fallen back to the ground. Now it was the motorcycle’s turn to rear. Before the policemen’s disbelieving eyes, it took off into the air: James and Sirius zoomed away into the night sky, their tail light twinkling behind them like a vanishing ruby.

Joanne Murray Rowling (Her Pen name J.K. Rowling, the K standing for Kathleen the name of Jo's grandmother), born in Yate, Gloucestershire, England on the 31st of July (The same date of birth as her famous character Harry Potter) 1965.

Her parents names were Peter James Rowling and Anne Rowling who met on the Kings Cross platform when they were both 18. When Jo was almost two years old her sister Dianne (a.k.a. Di) was born. She says that "The small amount of time that we didn't spend fighting, Di and I were best friends."

A lot of her childhood was spent reading her parent's vastly packed library and telling and acting out stories with her sister. After a few times moving around Britain the Rowling's finally settled down in small Tutshill, Wales in 1974. When she was 11 she started Secondary school in Wydean. She soon met her close friend Sean Harris, to whom the second book of the Harry Potter series is dedicated. He was a great influence and advocate for her becoming a writer and Jo says "..he was the only person who thought I was bound to be a success at it, which meant much more to me than I ever told him at the time."

After nearly 7 years in Tutshill Anne Rowling was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, an autoimmune disease that affects the body's nervous system causing visual, movement and speech problems and eventually leading to death.

In 1983 after Joanne left school she went to, regrettably, study French at the University of Exeter, influenced by her parents to do so. After living in Paris for a year, completing her course and working with human rights campaigning organisation in London she planned to move to Manchester with her boyfriend. "It was after a weekends flat hunting, when I was travelling back to London on my own on a crowded train, that the idea of Harry Potter simply fell in my head," she revels.

She began writing almost immediately and was increasingly excited about the continuously developing plot of her new story. Then, two days before the New Year of 1991, her mother Anne passed away. The death shook Joanne and she stopped writing for almost 9 months. Then she picked back up when she moved to Portugal and got a job teaching English and when she returned she had been married and divorced to a Portugese man and had a baby daughter named Jessica.

Finally after 2 years of juggling around work, caring for her small daughter and writing - she finished Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. After being turned down multiple times, in 1996 she was informed by her Literary Agent that the publishing house Bloomsbury had accepted her manuscript.

Following the publication of her book the book soon became vastly well known and gained succesfful sales world-wide and the novel soon evolved into a sequel, then a trilogy and eventually, the seven book series it is today.

In 1998, the large commercial success and increasing global love for the then Sequeled Harry Potter fantasy novels gained a lot of media attention - thus leading to film company interests. Around a year later Rowling handed Warner Bros. the film rights to her two completed works and future books in the series, inturn recieving nearly $2,000,000 U.S.

The movie, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's/Sorcerer's Stone was directed by Chris Columbus and quickly became an instant hit. Filming began in 2000 and the 2 and a half hours long film was released on the 14 of November 2001. It earned close to $975,000,000 U.S. globally, one third of which was profited in America. While recieving many positive critical responses and reviews the hit motion picture also gained numerous awards and nominations. These include nominations for several BAFTA, Acadamy and Saturn Awards and presented one Saturn Award and a number of other awards.

With the book to film transition came changes mostly due to time restrictions. The beginning of the film starts out differently to the book and many happenings and scenes are eliminated and never made it into the movie adaption. Therefore some parts of the motion picture are changed so the shorter version fit together without the deleted parts.

As well as storyline changes there were also character changes made for the big screen version of the novels. Some character appearances changed but the over all physical persona is fairly well kept for most. For example some small things such as Harry's eye colour, which is supposed to be a bright green, is blue in the film. Also his cousin Dudley and Aunt Petunia and the centaur Firenze are all said to have fair hair but are converted to brunettes.

As well as these minor visual differences, some characters were straight out removed from the entire film sequence where as some (Like Mrs. Figg) were removed at first but later on introduced. Despite the number of small ommissions and progressions, the basic story plot is still kept fairly the same as originally written. Although most fell in love with the recent evolvement of their favourite story, some fans were unimpressed by the array of bits cut and adjustments adapted to it.

Production of the second motion picture, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, was started immediately and release on the 15th (UK and US) and 28th (AU and NZ) of November 2002. The sequel profited an even larger global income with worldwide progressions reaching nearly $880 million.

Below is a list of some of the main characters in the books and the actors that play the parts in the films. There are, of course, many more but I am not going to list them all here.

Harry Potter - Daniel Radcliffe

Ron Weasley - Rupert Grint

Hermione Granger - Emma Watson

Albus Dumbledore - Richard Harris (Movies 1 to 2) and Michael Gambon (Movies 3 to Current)

Minerva Mcgonnagall - Maggie Smith

Severus Snape - Alan Rickman

Rubeus Hagrid - Robbie Coltrane

Ginny Weasley - Bonny Wright

Molly Weasley - Julie Walters

Dudley Dursley - Harry Melling

Draco Malfoy - Tom Felton

Fred Weasley - James Phelps

George Weasley - Oliver Phelps

Neville Longbottom - Mathew Lewis

Vernon Dursley - Richard Griffiths

Arthur Weasley - Mark Williams

Lucius Malfoy - Jason Isaacs

Voldemort/He Who Must Not Be Name/You Know Who/Tom Riddle - Richard Bremer (Movie 1) Christian Coulson (Movie 2) Ralph Fiennes (Movies 4 to current)

Petunia Dursley - Fiona Shaw

Filius Flitwick - Warwick Davis

Argus Filch - David Bradleys

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