This first book – Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone – introduces you to this magical world for the first time, and it does so in a smooth and comfortable fashion, introducing both you and Harry to strange wonders never yet experienced. Everyone in the wizard world knows more about Harry’s family and his story than he himself does. Harry’s life as a Hogwarts “first-year” is more interesting than that of most attendees, because he is already famous for surviving the attack of the evil Lord Voldemort, who tried to kill him as an infant. Among Harry’s first-year adventures are making new friends (Hagrid, Ron and Hermione), standing up to the torments of school bully Draco Malfoy, and becoming the star player of his Quidditch team (the favored sport in the magical world). Harry Potter books tell the story of orphan Harry James Potter, the discovery of his secret magical powers and the role he plays in the safety of the hidden world of witchcraft and wizards.Īfter being raised in the miserably unfair home of his Uncle Vernon Dursley, Harry practically begins life anew when he discovers that he is a wizard and is invited to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. “It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”
Rowling also writes crime novels, featuring private detective Cormoran Strike. Under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, J.K.
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The result is known to us all – a series of unparalleled fame and popularity that we all enjoy. She wrote mostly in longhand and gradually built up a mass of notes, many of which were scribbled on odd scraps of paper. Over the next five years, she began to map out all seven books of the series. Rowling conceived the idea of Harry Potter in 1990 while sitting on a delayed train from Manchester to London King’s Cross. She was born on Jat Yate General Hospital near Bristol, and grew up in Gloucestershire in England and in Chepstow, Gwent, in south-east Wales. She is, of course, the author of the famous Harry Potter series.