Harry Potter

Bi Thanh Hi - Trn Thi Khi

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Origins and publishing history Plot : Seven fantasy novels Value of works The films based on the novels

Origins and publishing history

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Author : J.K.Rowling Joanne "Jo" Rowling , OBE (born 31 July 1965), better known as J. K. Rowling, is the British author of the Harry Potterfantasy series.

In 1990, J. K. Rowling was on a crowded train from Manchester to London when the idea for Harry suddenly "fell into her head"

"I had been writing almost continuously since the age of six but I had never been so excited about an idea before. I simply sat and thought, for four (delayed train) hours, and all the details bubbled up in my brain, and this scrawny, black-haired, bespectacled boy who did not know he was a wizard became more and more real to me."

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was published by Bloomsbury the publisher of all Harry Potter books in the United Kingdom, on 30 June 1997. The seventh and final novel, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, was published 21 July 2007.[

Awards 4 Whitaker Platinum Book Awards ( 2001 ) Hugo Award for Best Novel( 2001 ) 3 Nestl Smarties Book Prizes (19971999) 2 Scottish Arts Council Book Awards (1999 and 2001)

Honours Best books lists of the American Library Association, The New York Times, Chicago Public Library, and Publishers Weekly.
The Carnegie Medal (1997)
The Guardian Children's Award (1998)

Plot
Seven fantasy novels : - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone ( 1997 ) - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ( 1998 ) - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ( 1999 ) - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ( 2000 ) - Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix ( 2003 ) - Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince ( 2005 ) - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ( 2007 )

Values of works
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Values of content : Rowling's magical world serves quite a different purpose, indicated by the fact that Harry leaves the normal world to enter the magical world, where he remains. Within the first dozen pages of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, we discover that a magical world has long stood beside our own, in secret. Harry learns he is a wizard when Hagrid announces this fact and presents his invitation to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. At the end of the series, after Harry's allies defeat Voldemort, Harry and his friends continue to live in the magical world; the magic remains as strong as ever.

Commerical success : The popularity of the Harry Potter series has translated into substantial financial success for Rowling, her publishers, and other Harry Potter related license holders. This success has made Rowling the first and thus far only billionaire author. The books have sold more than 400 million copies worldwide and have also given rise to the popular film adaptations produced by Warner Bros., all of which have been highly successful in their own right. The films have in turn spawned eight video games and have led to the licensing of more than 400 additional Harry Potter products (including an iPod). The Harry Potter brand has been estimated to be worth as much as $15 billion.

The great demand for Harry Potter books motivated the New York Times to create a separate bestseller list for children's literature in 2000, just before the release of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. By 24 June 2000, Rowling's novels had been on the list for 79 straight weeks; the first three novels were each on the hardcover bestseller list.[93] On 12 April 2007, Barnes & Noble declared that Deathly Hallows had broken its preorder record, with more than 500,000 copies pre-ordered through its site. For the release of Goblet of Fire, 9,000 FedEx trucks were used with no other purpose than to deliver the book. Together, Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble pre-sold more than 700,000 copies of the book.[ In the United States, the book's initial printing run was 3.8 million copies. This record statistic was broken by Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, with 8.5 million, which was then shattered by Half-Blood Prince with 10.8 million copies. 6.9 million copies of Prince were sold in the U.S. within the first 24 hours of its release; in the United Kingdom more than two million copies were sold on the first day. The initial U.S. print run for Deathly Hallows was 12 million copies, and more than a