query: what is the very first harry potter book?

title: A Very Potter Musical

text: A Very Potter Musical A Very Potter Musical (originally titled Harry Potter: The Musical and often shortened to AVPM) is a musical with music and lyrics by Darren Criss and A. J. Holmes and a book by Matt Lang, Nick Lang and Brian Holden. The story is a parody, based on several of the "Harry Potter" novels by J. K. Rowling (particularly "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" and "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"), as well as their film adaptations. "A Very Potter Musical" tells the story of Harry Potter's return to

title: A Very Potter Sequel

text: A Very Potter Sequel A Very Potter Sequel (often shortened to AVPS) is a musical with music and lyrics by Darren Criss and a book by Matt Lang, Nick Lang, and Brian Holden. The story is a parody, based on several of the "Harry Potter" novels (particularly "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" and "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix") by J. K. Rowling, as well as their film counterparts. "A Very Potter Sequel" picks up where "A Very Potter Musical" left off with Lord Voldemort destroyed. Lucius Malfoy then decides

title: Harry Potter

text: screenwriting. A number of other non-interactive media games and board games have been released such as "Cluedo Harry Potter Edition", "Scene It? Harry Potter" and "Lego Harry Potter" models, which are influenced by the themes of both the novels and films. There are thirteen "Harry Potter" video games, eight corresponding with the films and books and five spin-offs. The film/book-based games are produced by Electronic Arts, as was "", with the game version of the first entry in the series, "Philosopher's Stone", being released in November 2001. "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" went on to become one of the

title: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

text: will meet again. "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" is the third book in the "Harry Potter" series. The first, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" ("Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" in the US), was published by Bloomsbury on 26 June 1997 and the second, "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", was published on 2 July 1998. Rowling started to write the "Prisoner of Azkaban" the day after she finished "The Chamber of Secrets". Rowling's favourite aspect of this book was introducing the character Remus Lupin, Rowling additionally said in 2004 that "Prisoner of Azkaban" was "the

title: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

text: were concerned with the violence contained in the novel and with morality issues occurring throughout the book. "The New York Times" writer John Leonard praised the novel, saying ""The Order of the Phoenix" starts slow, gathers speed and then skateboards, with somersaults, to its furious conclusion...As Harry gets older, Rowling gets better." However, he also criticises "the one-note Draco Malfoy" and the predictable Lord Voldemort. "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" is the fifth book in the "Harry Potter" series. The first book in the series, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" was first published by Bloomsbury in

title: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

text: continue. Harry finds out that the locket is not the real Horcrux, containing only a note from someone named "R. A. B.". Harry is so devastated by Dumbledore's death (and upset by its futility) that he tells his friends he will not be returning to Hogwarts. Instead, he will spend the next year searching out Voldemort's Horcruxes. Ron and Hermione insist on joining him in destroying Lord Voldemort for good. "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" is the sixth book in the Harry Potter series. The first book in the series, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", was first published

title: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

text: for the 1998 Guardian Children's Award and the 1998 Carnegie Award. "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize 1998 Gold Medal in the 9–11 years division. Rowling also won two other Nestlé Smarties Book Prizes for "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" and "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban". The Scottish Arts Council awarded their first ever Children’s Book Award to the novel in 1999, and it was also awarded Whitaker's Platinum Book Award in 2001. In 2003, the novel was listed at number 23 on the BBC's survey The Big Read. "Harry

title: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

text: seven books had been published, Graeme Davis regarded "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" as the weakest of the series, and agreed that the plot structure is much the same as in "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone". He described Fawkes's appearance to arm Harry and then to heal him as a "deus ex machina": he said that the book does not explain how Fawkes knew where to find Harry; and Fawkes's timing had to be very precise, as arriving earlier would probably have prevented the battle with the basilisk, while arriving later would have been fatal to Harry

title: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

text: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is a fantasy novel written by British author J. K. Rowling and the seventh and final novel of the "Harry Potter" series. The book was released on 21 July 2007, ending the series that began in 1997 with the publication of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone". It was published in the United Kingdom by Bloomsbury Publishing, in the United States by Scholastic, and in Canada by Raincoast Books. The novel chronicles the events directly following "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" (2005) and the final confrontation between

title: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

title: Harry Potter (character)

text: person: "he came just out of a part of me". Rowling has also maintained that Harry is a suitable real-life role model for children. "The advantage of a fictional hero or heroine is that you can know them better than you can know a living hero, many of whom you would never meet [...] if people like Harry and identify with him, I am pleased, because I think he is very likeable." Harry first appears in "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" (published in the United States as "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"). Starting in 1981, when Harry was

title: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

text: Dumbledore about Voldemort's return, and as Fudge has the Dementor's Kiss performed, Crouch Jr. is unable to give testimony. Hermione discovers Rita Skeeter is an unregistered Animagus, who can take the form of a beetle, and blackmails her to force her to stop writing her libellous stories. Not wanting his tournament winnings, Harry gives them to Fred and George to start their joke shop and returns home with the Dursleys. "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" is the fourth book in the "Harry Potter" series. The first, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", was published by Bloomsbury on 26

title: Lego Harry Potter

text: Lego Harry Potter Lego "Harry Potter" is a Lego theme based on the films of the "Harry Potter" series. Lego models of important scenes, vehicles and characters were made for the first six films and all the books released. The first sets appeared in 2001, to coincide with the release of the first film "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the United States). Subsequent sets were released alongside the new films, until Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. The line then went dormant for three years, with sets being released in

title: Lego Harry Potter

text: on October 21, 2016, as part of the "Lego Harry Potter Collection", and was also released for the Xbox One and Nintendo Switch on October 30, 2018. Lego Harry Potter Lego "Harry Potter" is a Lego theme based on the films of the "Harry Potter" series. Lego models of important scenes, vehicles and characters were made for the first six films and all the books released. The first sets appeared in 2001, to coincide with the release of the first film "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the United States). Subsequent sets were

title: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

text: his descendant. Gilderoy Lockhart's book on werewolves is entitled "Weekends with Werewolves" at one point and "Wanderings with Werewolves" later in the book. "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" was met with near universal acclaim. In "The Times", Deborah Loudon described it as a children's book that would be "re-read into adulthood" and highlighted its "strong plots, engaging characters, excellent jokes and a moral message which flows naturally from the story". Fantasy author Charles de Lint agreed, and considered the second Harry Potter book to be just as good as "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", a rare achievement

title: Harry Potter in translation

text: asked Rowling about the gender of some of the characters—Zabini, Professor Sinistra, and "R.A.B."—while working on her translations. Harry Potter in translation The "Harry Potter" series of fantasy novels by J. K. Rowling is one of the most translated series of all time, with the first book, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", having been translated into over 74 languages. This includes languages diverse as Azerbaijani, Malayalam and Welsh as well as the dead languages Latin and Ancient Greek. This makes it the longest published work in Ancient Greek since the novels of Heliodorus of Emesa in the 3rd century

title: Harry Potter in translation

text: Harry Potter in translation The "Harry Potter" series of fantasy novels by J. K. Rowling is one of the most translated series of all time, with the first book, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", having been translated into over 74 languages. This includes languages diverse as Azerbaijani, Malayalam and Welsh as well as the dead languages Latin and Ancient Greek. This makes it the longest published work in Ancient Greek since the novels of Heliodorus of Emesa in the 3rd century AD. Additionally, regional adaptations of the books have been made to accommodate regional dialects such as the American

title: Harry Potter in translation

text: expectations of their target market. Adaptation may also extend to vocabulary or grammatical choices that might impair legibility or impart some cognitive dissonance. Readers usually wouldn't be aware of the adaptations, but the choice to change the title of the American edition of the first Harry Potter book from "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" to "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" highlighted the practice and drew considerable attention. The book's title was changed due to the American publisher's concern that children would be confused by a reference to philosophy. Other translations have also changed the first book's title, for

title: Harry Potter

text: Harry Potter Harry Potter is a series of fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling. The novels chronicle the lives of a young wizard, Harry Potter, and his friends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley, all of whom are students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The main story arc concerns Harry's struggle against Lord Voldemort, a dark wizard who intends to become immortal, overthrow the wizard governing body known as the Ministry of Magic, and subjugate all wizards and Muggles (non-magical people). Since the release of the first novel, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", on 26

title: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

text: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is a fantasy novel written by British author J. K. Rowling. The first novel in the "Harry Potter" series and Rowling's debut novel, it follows Harry Potter, a young wizard who discovers his magical heritage on his eleventh birthday, when he receives a letter of acceptance to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry makes close friends and a few enemies during his first year at the school, and with the help of his friends, Harry faces an attempted comeback by the dark wizard Lord Voldemort, who killed

title: Harry Potter

text: in its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children". Three of the books placed among the "Top 100 Chapter Books" of all time, or children's novels, in a 2012 survey published by "School Library Journal": "Sorcerer's Stone" ranked number three, "Prisoner of Azkaban" 12th, and "Goblet of Fire" 98th. In 2012, the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London featured a 100-foot tall rendition of Lord Voldemort in a segment designed to show off the UK's cultural icons. Early in its history, "Harry Potter" received positive reviews. On publication, the first book, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", attracted

title: Religious debates over the Harry Potter series

text: on. I don't think it was so much the film's subject matter but the fact that filming was happening at all." Similarly, Durham Cathedral also allowed its use for two of the films. Then-Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey gave positive remarks about the "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" film in his New Year Message for 2002, calling it "great fun," and a film that "asks some very real questions" on moral issues. In June 2007, the Anglican Church published "Mixing it up with Harry Potter", a 48-page book designed to use parallels from the novels to teach the faith

text: Heritage Auction. Lindsey Fraser, who had previously supplied one of the blurb comments, wrote what is thought to be the first published review, in "The Scotsman" on 28 June 1997. She described "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" as "a hugely entertaining thriller" and Rowling as "a first-rate writer for children". Another early review, in "The Herald", said, "I have yet to find a child who can put it down." Newspapers outside Scotland started to notice the book, with glowing reviews in "The Guardian", "The Sunday Times" and "The Mail on Sunday", and in September 1997 "Books for Keeps", a

title: Harry Potter (character)

text: prototypical schoolyard bullies she encountered and Snape on a sadistic teacher of hers who abused his power. Rowling has stated that the "Mirror of Erised" chapter in "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" is her favourite; the mirror reflects Harry's deepest desire, namely to see his dead parents and family. Her favourite funny scene is when Harry inadvertently sets a boa constrictor free from the zoo in the horrified Dursleys' presence. In the second book, "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", Rowling pits Harry against Tom Riddle, Lord Voldemort's "memory" within a secret diary which has possessed Ron's younger

title: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)

text: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (released in the United States as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone) is a 2001 fantasy film directed by Chris Columbus and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. It is based on J. K. Rowling's 1997 novel of the same name. The film is the first instalment in the long-running "Harry Potter" film series and was written by Steve Kloves and produced by David Heyman. Its story follows Harry Potter's first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry as he discovers that he is a famous wizard

title: Harry Potter (character)

text: Harry grows taller, and by the seventh book is said to be 'almost' the height of his father, and 'tall' by other characters. Rowling explained that Harry's image came to her when she first thought up Harry Potter, seeing him as a "scrawny, black-haired, bespectacled boy". She also mentioned that she thinks Harry's glasses are the clue to his vulnerability. According to Rowling, Harry is strongly guided by his own conscience, and has a keen feeling of what is right and wrong. Having "very limited access to truly caring adults", Rowling said, Harry "is forced to make his own decisions

title: A Very Potter Musical

text: through the StarKid Productions website. All of the songs featured on stage are present on the recording. The group also released the album through Bandcamp on July 29, 2010. "Entertainment Weekly" named the musical one of the 10 Best Viral Videos of 2009. A Very Potter Musical A Very Potter Musical (originally titled Harry Potter: The Musical and often shortened to AVPM) is a musical with music and lyrics by Darren Criss and A. J. Holmes and a book by Matt Lang, Nick Lang and Brian Holden. The story is a parody, based on several of the "Harry Potter" novels

title: Politics of Harry Potter

text: that "Harry Potter" is a parable on immigration rights, noting that US "immigration, citizenship and naturalization laws are based explicitly on discrimination on the basis of national origin. Where you were born, and what passport you carry, determine whether you have the right to come here, to visit, to work, or to live here." On the "Harry Potter" series, Rowling said on her United States book tour in October 2007, "I very consciously wanted to show what is one of the great evils of war, which is that totally innocent people are slaughtered... Another great evil of war is that

title: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

text: Due to its worldwide fame, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" has been translated into many languages. The first translation to be released was the Ukrainian translation, on 25 September 2007 (as "Гаррі Поттер і смертельні реліквії" – "Harry Potter i smertel'ni relikviji"). The Swedish title of the book was revealed by Rowling as "Harry Potter and the Relics of Death" ("Harry Potter och Dödsrelikerna"), following a pre-release question from the Swedish publisher about the difficulty of translating the two words ""Deathly Hallows"" without having read the book. This is also the title used for the French translation ("Harry Potter

title: The Magical Worlds of Harry Potter

text: approval from Rowling, and has since received positive reviews from critics. An updated version of "The Magical Worlds of Harry Potter" was published in 2004 by Berkley Books. "The Magical Worlds of Harry Potter" explores the references to history, legends, and literature in J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter" novels. David Colbert, the author of the book, told the "St. Louis Post-Dispatch" that the "Harry Potter" novels "are [...] literary treasure hunts for [Rowling's] readers. What seem like funny-sounding names and places and excursions into fantasy all have a basis in either history, myth or legend." He added, however, that he thinks

title: Harry Potter

text: 11 million units in the first twenty-four hours of release. The series has also gathered adult fans, leading to the release of two editions of each "Harry Potter" book, identical in text but with one edition's cover artwork aimed at children and the other aimed at adults. Besides meeting online through blogs, podcasts, and fansites, "Harry Potter" super-fans can also meet at "Harry Potter" symposia. The word "Muggle" has spread beyond its "Harry Potter" origins, becoming one of few pop culture words to land in the Oxford English Dictionary. The Harry Potter fandom has embraced podcasts as a regular, often

title: Harry Potter

text: world began holding events to coincide with the midnight release of the books, beginning with the 2000 publication of "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire". The events, commonly featuring mock sorting, games, face painting, and other live entertainment have achieved popularity with Potter fans and have been highly successful in attracting fans and selling books with nearly nine million of the 10.8 million initial print copies of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" sold in the first 24 hours. The final book in the series, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" became the fastest selling book in history, moving

title: A Very Potter Sequel

text: 22, 2010, and within two days had gotten over 160,000 views, making the StarKid Productions page the most viewed of the day. "A Very Potter Sequel" is followed by "A Very Potter Senior Year". Lucius Malfoy and Yaxley meet to discuss Lord Voldemort's defeat at the hands of Harry Potter. Lucius describes that if it were not for Harry Potter, they would be reigning supreme. Lucius then explains his plan to use a Time Turner to go back in time to Harry's first year at Hogwarts to destroy him before he can become a threat for the Death Eaters ("Not

title: Harry Potter (character)

text: edit some more mature elements from the videos. The musical, re-titled "A Very Potter Musical", was reposted on 5 July 2009, starring Darren Criss as Harry Potter. A sequel was premiered at the 2010 HPEF Harry Potter Conference Infinitus, and released on YouTube on 22 July at 8 pm EST. The sequel was called "A Very Potter Sequel" and featured the Death Eaters using the Time-Turner to go back in time to Harry's first year in Hogwarts. Harry Potter is spoofed in the "Barry Trotter" series by American writer Michael Gerber, where a "Barry Trotter" appears as the eponymous antihero.

title: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

text: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is a fantasy book written by British author J. K. Rowling and the fourth novel in the "Harry Potter" series. It follows Harry Potter, a wizard in his fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and the mystery surrounding the entry of Harry's name into the Triwizard Tournament, in which he is forced to compete. The book was published in the United Kingdom by Bloomsbury and in the United States by Scholastic; in both countries the release date was 8 July 2000, the first

title: The Magical Worlds of Harry Potter

text: The Magical Worlds of Harry Potter The Magical Worlds of Harry Potter: A Treasury of Myths, Legends, and Fascinating Facts is a guide to the fictional "Harry Potter" universe, written by David Colbert. It explores the references to history, legends, and literature in J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter" novels. Colbert conceived the idea for "The Magical Worlds of Harry Potter" while quizzing his nephew and nieces about the mythological references in the novels. He later wrote the book while teaching a seminar on self-publishing to graduate students at the University of North Carolina. The book was published in March 2001, without

title: Harry Potter fandom

text: also noteworthy for its detailed criticism and discussion of the Harry Potter books. Speculation intensified with the July 2005 publication of "Half-Blood Prince" and the detailed post-publication interview given by Rowling to Mugglenet and The Leaky Cauldron. Notably, DumbledoreIsNotDead.com sought to understand the events of the sixth book in a different way. (Rowling later confirmed, however – on 2 August 2006 – that Dumbledore was, in fact, dead, humorously apologising to the website as she did so.) A collection of essays, "Who Killed Albus Dumbledore?: What Really Happened in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince? Six Expert Harry Potter Detectives

title: Harry Potter

text: a cause-and-effect relationship, there is a clear correlation, and it seems that Harry Potter's cultural impact may be stronger than just a fandom bond. Many fan fiction and fan art works about "Harry Potter" have been made. In March 2007, "Harry Potter" was the most commonly searched fan fiction subject on the internet. At the University of Michigan in 2009, StarKid Productions performed an original musical parodying the "Harry Potter" series called "A Very Potter Musical". The musical was awarded "Entertainment Weekly"'s 10 Best Viral Videos of 2009. The sport Quidditch, played by characters in the "Harry Potter" series, was

title: Harry Potter

text: by Scholastic – the American publisher of the books – as "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone", after Rowling had received US$105,000 for the American rights – a record amount for a children's book by an unknown author. Fearing that American readers would not associate the word "philosopher" with magic (although the Philosopher's Stone is an ancient tradition in alchemy), Scholastic insisted that the book be given the title "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" for the American market. The second book, "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", was originally published in the UK on 2 July 1998 and

text: Fire" was published on 8 July 2000 simultaneously by Bloomsbury and Scholastic. "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" is the longest book from the series, yet the second shortest film at 2 hours and 18 minutes. After the publishing of "Order of the Phoenix", the sixth book of the series, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", was published on 16 July 2005, and sold 9 million copies in the first 24 hours of its worldwide release. The seventh and final novel, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", was published 21 July 2007. The book sold 11 million copies

title: Harry Potter

text: the first entry to convey an intense theme of action and violence, with the gameplay revolving around a third-person shooter style format. The spin-off games "" and "" were developed by Traveller's Tales and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. The spin-off games "Book of Spells" and "Book of Potions" were developed by SCE London Studio and use the Wonderbook, an augmented reality book designed to be used in conjunction with the PlayStation Move and PlayStation Eye. The "Harry Potter" universe is also featured in "Lego Dimensions", with the settings and side characters featured in the Harry Potter Adventure World,

title: Harry Potter in translation

text: pass off as the translation of the real book by Rowling. There have been several such books, the most famous of which is probably "Harry Potter and Bao Zoulong" which was written and published in China in 2002, before the release of the fifth book in Rowling's series, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix". Other fake Harry Potter books written in Chinese include "Harry Potter and the Porcelain Doll" (哈利・波特与瓷娃娃 or Hālì Bōtè yǔ Cíwáwa), "Harry Potter and the Golden Turtle", and "Harry Potter and the Crystal Vase". In August 2007, "The New York Times" noted that the

title: Harry Potter (film series)

text: was released in November 2010, and "Part 2" was released in July 2011. Five of the series' eight films are among the 50 highest-grossing films of all time, with "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2" the highest-grossing film in the series and one of 36 films to gross over $1 billion, ranking at number ten. Without inflation adjustment, it is the third highest-grossing film series with $7.7 billion in worldwide receipts. Late in 1997, film producer David Heyman's London offices received a copy of the first book in what would become Rowling's series of seven "Harry Potter"

title: The Harry Potter Lexicon

text: The Harry Potter Lexicon The Harry Potter Lexicon is a fan-created online encyclopedia of the "Harry Potter" series. The site was created by school librarian Steve Vander Ark. It contains detailed information for all seven published "Harry Potter" books. The Lexicon lists characters, places, creatures, spells, potions and magical devices, as well as analyzing magical theory and other details of the series. The Lexicon is credited as creating one of the first timelines of all events occurring in the "Harry Potter" universe. A similar timeline of events was adopted by Warner Bros. for inclusion with their "Harry Potter" film DVDs,

title: Harry Potter fandom

text: Harry Potter fandom "Harry Potter" fandom refers to the community of fans of the "Harry Potter" books and movies who participate in entertainment activities that revolve around the series, such as reading and writing fan fiction, creating and soliciting fan art, engaging in role-playing games, socializing on "Harry Potter"-based forums, and more. The fandom interacts online as well as offline through activities such as fan conventions, tours of iconic landmarks relevant to the books and production of the films, and parties held for the midnight release of each book and film. By the fourth "Harry Potter" book, the legions of

title: Harry Potter

text: during the rise in the popularity of the Harry Potter books. The research also found that children who read Harry Potter books were not more likely to go on to read outside the fantasy and mystery genres. NEA chairman Dana Gioia said the series, "got millions of kids to read a long and reasonably complex series of books. The trouble is that one Harry Potter novel every few years is not enough to reverse the decline in reading." Jennifer Conn used Snape's and Quidditch coach Madam Hooch's teaching methods as examples of what to avoid and what to emulate in

title: A Very Potter Senior Year

text: tracks which were not featured in the earlier musicals are present on the recording. Britney Coleman replaced Evanna Lynch as Luna Lovegood on the soundtrack, and Darren Criss was replaced by Clark Baxtresser as Harry Potter. A Very Potter Senior Year A Very Potter Senior Year (often shortened to AVPSY) is a musical written by Matt Lang, Nick Lang, and Brian Holden with songs by Clark Baxtresser, Pierce Siebers, A. J. Holmes, and additional songs by Darren Criss. It is the conclusion of the "Very Potter" trilogy of "Harry Potter"-inspired musicals produced over four years by StarKid Productions. Rather than

title: Harry Potter Fan Zone

text: from an open letter written by the site. Harry Potter Fan Zone Harry Potter Fan Zone is an Australian "Harry Potter" fansite created in 2003 by Australian teenager Andy McCray. "Harry Potter" author J. K. Rowling awarded the website a "Fan Site Award," stating that "[it] is a great Australian site with an impressively young staff who have produced some really insightful editorials." Harry Potter Fan Zone's main focus is the coverage of "Harry Potter" news and "Harry Potter" related discussion and contents. The site has covered events in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia, including book releases, movie

title: Harry Potter Fan Zone

text: Harry Potter Fan Zone Harry Potter Fan Zone is an Australian "Harry Potter" fansite created in 2003 by Australian teenager Andy McCray. "Harry Potter" author J. K. Rowling awarded the website a "Fan Site Award," stating that "[it] is a great Australian site with an impressively young staff who have produced some really insightful editorials." Harry Potter Fan Zone's main focus is the coverage of "Harry Potter" news and "Harry Potter" related discussion and contents. The site has covered events in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia, including book releases, movie releases, premieres and fan gatherings. At the invitation

title: Harry Potter

text: in the US on 2 June 1999. "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" was published a year later in the UK on 8 July 1999 and in the US on 8 September 1999. "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" was published on 8 July 2000 at the same time by Bloomsbury and Scholastic. "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" is the longest book in the series, at 766 pages in the UK version and 870 pages in the US version. It was published worldwide in English on 21 June 2003. "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince"

title: Harry Potter

text: 31 July 2016. The story is set nineteen years after the ending of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" and follows Harry Potter, now a Ministry of Magic employee, and his youngest son Albus Severus Potter. The play's official synopsis was released on 23 October 2015: Rowling has expanded the Harry Potter universe with several short books produced for various charities. In 2001, she released "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" (a purported Hogwarts textbook) and "Quidditch Through the Ages" (a book Harry reads for fun). Proceeds from the sale of these two books benefited the charity Comic Relief.

title: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

text: was symbolic, as Harry's horizons widened both literally and metaphorically as he grew up. She also wanted to explore more of the magical world. Until the official title's announcement on 27 June 2000, the book was called by its working title, 'Harry Potter IV.' Previously, in April, the publisher had listed it as "Harry Potter and the Doomspell Tournament". However, J. K. Rowling expressed her indecision about the title in an "Entertainment Weekly" interview. "I changed my mind twice on what [the title] was. The working title had got out — "Harry Potter and the Doomspell Tournament". Then I changed

text: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is a fantasy novel written by British author J. K. Rowling and the third in the "Harry Potter" series. The book follows Harry Potter, a young wizard, in his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Along with friends Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger, Harry investigates Sirius Black, an escaped prisoner from Azkaban who they believe is one of Lord Voldemort's old allies. The book was published in the United Kingdom on 8 July 1999 by Bloomsbury and in the United States on 8

text: In 2002, Chick Publications produced a comic book tract titled "The Nervous Witch" that declared "the Potter books open a doorway that will put untold millions of kids into hell." In 2007 Jacqui Komschlies wrote an article in "Christianity Today" comparing "Harry Potter" to "rat poison mixed with orange soda," and said, "We're taking something deadly from our world and turning it into what some are calling 'merely a literary device. A common belief among fundamentalist Christians is that "Harry Potter" promotes the religion of Wicca, and so keeping the books in public schools violates the separation of church and

text: Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" is the longest book in the series at 766 pages in the UK version and 870 pages in the US version. It was published worldwide in English on June 21, 2003. "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" was published on July 16, 2005 and sold 11 million copies in the first 24 hours of its worldwide release. The seventh and final novel, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", was published on July 21, 2007. The book sold 11 million copies within 24 hours of its release: 2.7 million copies in the UK and

title: Harry Potter

text: the first time on the shortlist for the main award, and one judge threatened to resign if "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" was declared the overall winner; it finished second, very close behind the winner of the poetry prize, Seamus Heaney's translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic "Beowulf". In 2000, shortly before the publication of "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", the previous three "Harry Potter" books topped "The New York Times" fiction best-seller list and a third of the entries were children's books. The newspaper created a new children's section covering children's books, including both fiction and

title: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

text: the UK on 8 July 1999, and in the US on 8 September 1999. "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" was published on 8 July 2000 at the same time by Bloomsbury and Scholastic. "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" is the longest book in the series at 766 pages in the UK version and 870 pages in the US version. It was published worldwide in English on 21 June 2003. "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" was published on 16 July 2005, and it sold 9 million copies in the first 24 hours of its worldwide

title: Harry Potter

text: "a pedestrian, ungrammatical prose style". Ursula K. Le Guin said, "I have no great opinion of it. When so many adult critics were carrying on about the 'incredible originality' of the first Harry Potter book, I read it to find out what the fuss was about, and remained somewhat puzzled; it seemed a lively kid's fantasy crossed with a "school novel", good fare for its age group, but stylistically ordinary, imaginatively derivative, and ethically rather mean-spirited." By contrast, author Fay Weldon, while admitting that the series is "not what the poets hoped for", nevertheless goes on to say, "but this

title: Harry Potter (character)

text: very end, Harry decides to leave the Elder Wand in Dumbledore's tomb and the Resurrection Stone hidden in the forest, but he keeps the Invisibility Cloak because it had belonged to his father. In the epilogue of "Deathly Hallows," which is set 19 years after Voldemort's death, Harry and Ginny are a couple and have three children: James Sirius Potter, who has already been at Hogwarts for at least one year, Albus Severus Potter, who is starting his first year there, and Lily Luna Potter, who is two years away from her first year at the school. According to Rowling,

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text: audience. In December 2005, Rowling stated on her web site, "2006 will be the year when I write the final book in the "Harry Potter" series." Updates then followed in her online diary chronicling the progress of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", with the release date of 21 July 2007. The book itself was finished on 11 January 2007 in the Balmoral Hotel, Edinburgh, where she scrawled a message on the back of a bust of Hermes. It read: "J. K. Rowling finished writing "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" in this room (552) on 11 January 2007." Rowling

text: family throughout the series, and in his treatment of first Rubeus Hagrid and later Remus Lupin and Sirius Black as father-figures. The second book, "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", was originally published in the UK on July 2, 1998 and later, in the US on June 2, 1999. "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" was then published a year later in the UK on July 8, 1999 and in the US on September 8, 1999. "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" was published on 8 July 2000 at the same time by Bloomsbury and Scholastic. "Harry

title: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

text: the publisher of all "Harry Potter" books in the United Kingdom, on 30 June 1997. It was released in the United States on 1 September 1998 by Scholastic—the American publisher of the books—as "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone", after Rowling had received US$105,000 for the American rights—an unprecedented amount for a children's book by a then-unknown author. The second book, "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" was originally published in the UK on 2 July 1998, and in the US on 2 June 1999. "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" was then published a year later in

title: Legal disputes over the Harry Potter series

text: Legal disputes over the Harry Potter series Since first coming to wide notice in the late 1990s, the "Harry Potter" book series by J. K. Rowling has engendered a number of legal disputes. Rowling, her various publishers and Time Warner, the owner of the rights to the "Harry Potter" films, have taken numerous legal actions to protect their copyrights, and also have fielded accusations of copyright theft themselves. The worldwide popularity of the "Harry Potter" series has led to the appearance of a number of locally produced, unauthorised sequels and other derivative works, sparking efforts to ban or contain them.

text: out of touch with the subtleties of the book world." Ralph Baxter of Publishing News concurred: "For Asda ... it may be seen as mission accomplished, a high-risk strategy to maximise publicity for its "Harry Potter" offer rewarded with television, radio, Internet and newspaper coverage. And the association of Asda with low prices has no doubt been entrenched in a few more minds." Legal disputes over the Harry Potter series Since first coming to wide notice in the late 1990s, the "Harry Potter" book series by J. K. Rowling has engendered a number of legal disputes. Rowling, her various publishers

title: A Very Potter Sequel

text: "A Very Potter Sequel" was performed May 14-16th, 2010, on the University of Michigan campus. The video version of the musical premiered in its entirety at Infinitus, a Harry Potter convention. The video premiered on YouTube July 22, 2010. A formal cast recording of the musical was not released. However, the musical's songs were recorded by the cast and released on two separate albums. The first, "A Very StarKid Album", was released alongside the YouTube premiere of "A Very Potter Sequel" on July 22, 2010, through iTunes and Amazon.com. The album features seven of the musical's twelve songs (excluding the

title: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

text: Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" continues to examine what makes a person who he or she is, which began in the first book. As well as maintaining that Harry's identity is shaped by his decisions rather than any aspect of his birth, "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" provides contrasting characters who try to conceal their true personalities: as Tammy Nezol puts it, Gilderoy Lockhart "lacks any real identity" because he is nothing more than a charming liar. Riddle also complicates Harry's struggle to understand himself by pointing out the similarities between the two: "both half-bloods, orphans raised

title: Harry Potter fandom

text: such as The Remus Lupins, The Parselmouths, Ministry of Magic, and The Whomping Willows) (see below) (Prophecy, 2007; Leakycon, 2009/2011/2012), Andrew Slack, founder of The Harry Potter Alliance, and StarKid, the cast of the fan made musicals "A Very Potter Musical", "A Very Potter Sequel", and "A Very Potter Senior Year". Still, the conventions try to attract the fandom with other fun-filled "Potter"-centric activities, often more interactive, such as wizarding chess, water Quidditch, a showing of the "Harry Potter" films, or local cultural immersions. Live podcasts are often recorded during these events, and live Wizard Rock shows have become a

title: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

text: the wizards Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort. "Deathly Hallows" shattered sales records upon release, surpassing marks set by previous titles of the "Harry Potter" series. It holds the Guinness World Record for most novels sold within 24 hours of release, with 8.3 million sold in the US alone and 2.65 million in the UK. Generally well received by critics, the book won the 2008 Colorado Blue Spruce Book Award, and the American Library Association named it a "Best Book for Young Adults". A film adaptation of the novel was released in two parts: "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows –

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text: magic. I so understand why Voldemort wants to conquer death. We're all frightened of it." Rowling stated that ""Harry Potter" books have always, in fact, dealt explicitly with religious themes and questions" and that she did not reveal its Christian parallels in the beginning because doing so would have "give[n] too much away to fans who might then see the parallels." In the final book of the series "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", Rowling makes the book's Christian imagery more explicit, quoting both and when Harry visits his parents' graves. Hermione Granger teaches Harry Potter that the meaning of

title: Harry Potter (character)

text: fighting. And he's after revenge [against Voldemort and Snape]." This book also focuses on the mysterious activities of Harry's rival Draco Malfoy. Voldemort has coerced a frightened Malfoy into attempting to kill Dumbledore. During a duel in Moaning Myrtle's bathroom, Harry uses the Half-Blood Prince's spell, "Sectumsempra," on Malfoy, who suffers near-fatal injuries as a result. Harry is horrified by what he has done and also comes to feel sympathy for Draco, after learning he was forced to do Voldemort's bidding under the threat of his and his parents' deaths. In "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", Harry, Ron, and

title: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1

text: due to what David Heyman called "creative imperative". Heyman initially responded negatively to the idea, but Wigram asked, "No, David. How are we going to do it?". After rereading the book and discussing it with screenwriter Steve Kloves, he agreed with the division. The production filmed at Dartford Crossing for the dramatic chase where Hagrid and Harry are being ambushed by Death Eaters. Stuart Craig, set designer for all of the previous "Harry Potter" films, returned for the final two parts. He said, "We made a very different kind of film, which was shot a great deal on location. We

title: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

text: in time in a misguided effort to change history and save Cedric Diggory - which only leads to them damaging events in the present and worsening the situation. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is a fantasy book written by British author J. K. Rowling and the fourth novel in the "Harry Potter" series. It follows Harry Potter, a wizard in his fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and the mystery surrounding the entry of Harry's name into the Triwizard Tournament, in which he is forced to compete. The

title: Harry Potter (character)

text: uncle kept the truth about his parents' deaths from Harry, telling him that they had died in a car crash. James Potter is a descendant of Ignotus Peverell, the third of the three original owners of the Deathly Hallows, and thus so is Harry, a realisation he makes during the course of the final book. The lineage continues at the end of the saga through his three children with Ginny: James Sirius Potter, Albus Severus Potter and Lily Luna Potter. In an original piece published on the Pottermore website in September 2015, Rowling described the history of the Potter family

title: Harry Potter

text: 2001), three Nestlé Smarties Book Prizes (1997–1999), two Scottish Arts Council Book Awards (1999 and 2001), the inaugural Whitbread children's book of the year award (1999), the WHSmith book of the year (2006), among others. In 2000, "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Novel, and in 2001, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" won said award. Honours include a commendation for the Carnegie Medal (1997), a short listing for the Guardian Children's Award (1998), and numerous listings on the notable books, editors' Choices, and best books lists of the American

title: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

text: US on 8 September 1999. "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" was published on 8 July 2000 at the same time by Bloomsbury and Scholastic. "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", the longest novel in the Harry Potter series, was released 21 June 2003. After the publishing of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", the seventh and final novel, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", was released 21 July 2007. The book sold 11 million copies within 24 hours of its release: 2.7 million copies in the UK and 8.3 million in the US. Rowling stated that

text: 24 hours of publication. It is the longest book of the series. "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" has won several awards, including being named an American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults in 2003. The book has also been made into a film, which was released in 2007, and into a video game by Electronic Arts. During summer vacation with his aunt Petunia and uncle Vernon, 15-year-old Harry Potter and his cousin Dudley are attacked by Dementors. After using magic to save Dudley and himself, Harry is almost expelled from Hogwarts, but the decision is later

title: Harry Potter influences and analogues

text: out that it's now over quarter of a century since I wrote my first book, make pointed remarks about 'clever timing' – or say things like 'the Worst Witch stories are not a million miles from J K Rowling's books'. The implications are really quite insulting!" The "Harry Potter" series shares many similarities with George Lucas's "Star Wars" with respect to main characters, especially heroes and villains, as well as story plotlines. Scholar Deborah Cartmell states that "Harry Potter" story is based as much on "Star Wars" as it is on any other text. The life of Harry Potter, the

title: Harry Potter

text: and Nielsen should have created a separate game-show list when "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" dominated the ratings. In 1998, Rowling sold the film rights of the first four "Harry Potter" books to Warner Bros. for a reported £1 million ($1,982,900). Rowling demanded the principal cast be kept strictly British, nonetheless allowing for the inclusion of Irish actors such as the late Richard Harris as Dumbledore, and for casting of French and Eastern European actors in "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" where characters from the book are specified as such. After many directors including Steven Spielberg, Terry

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text: clinical teaching, and Joyce Fields wrote that the books illustrate four of the five main topics in a typical first-year sociology class: "sociological concepts including culture, society, and socialisation; stratification and social inequality; social institutions; and social theory". From the early 2000s onwards several news reports appeared in the UK of the Harry Potter book and movie series driving demand for pet owls and even reports that after the end of the movie series these same pet owls were now being abandoned by their owners. This led J. K. Rowling to issue several statements urging Harry Potter fans to refrain

title: A Very Potter Senior Year

text: A Very Potter Senior Year A Very Potter Senior Year (often shortened to AVPSY) is a musical written by Matt Lang, Nick Lang, and Brian Holden with songs by Clark Baxtresser, Pierce Siebers, A. J. Holmes, and additional songs by Darren Criss. It is the conclusion of the "Very Potter" trilogy of "Harry Potter"-inspired musicals produced over four years by StarKid Productions. Rather than a full musical, as with its previous installments, the production took the form of a live staged reading of the script with performances of the songs at LeakyCon in Chicago, Illinois, on August 11, 2012. It

title: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

text: time a book in the series was published in both countries at the same time. The novel won a Hugo Award, the only "Harry Potter" novel to do so, in 2001. The book was adapted into a film, which was released worldwide on 18 November 2005, and a video game by Electronic Arts. Throughout the three previous novels in the "Harry Potter" series, the main character, Harry Potter, has struggled with the difficulties of growing up, and the added challenge of being a famed wizard: when Harry was a baby, Lord Voldemort, the most powerful Dark wizard in history, killed

title: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

text: et les reliques de la mort"), the Spanish translation ("Harry Potter y las Reliquias de la Muerte"), the Dutch translation ("Harry Potter en de Relieken van de Dood") and the Brazilian Portuguese translation ("Harry Potter e as Relíquias da Morte"). The first Polish translation was released with a new title: "Harry Potter i Insygnia Śmierci" – "Harry Potter and the Insignia of Death". The Hindi translation "Harry Potter aur Maut ke Tohfe" (), which means "Harry Potter and the Gifts of Death", was released by Manjul Publication in India on 27 June 2008. The Romanian version was released on 1

title: Harry Potter fandom

text: fans had grown so large that considerable security measures were taken to ensure that no book was purchased before the official release date. "Harry Potter" is considered one of the few four-quadrant, multi-generation spanning franchises that exist today, despite Rowling's original marketing of the books to tweens and teens. Pottermania is an informal term first used around 1999 describing the craze "Harry Potter" fans have had over the series. Fans held midnight parties to celebrate the release of the final four books at bookstores which stayed open on the night leading into the date of the release. In 2005, "Entertainment

title: The Harry Potter Lexicon

text: appropriates too much of Rowling's creative work for its purposes as a reference guide." In December, 2008, a modified (and shorter) version of Vander Ark's Lexicon was approved for publication and was released January 16, 2009 as "The Lexicon: An Unauthorized Guide to Harry Potter Fiction". The Harry Potter Lexicon The Harry Potter Lexicon is a fan-created online encyclopedia of the "Harry Potter" series. The site was created by school librarian Steve Vander Ark. It contains detailed information for all seven published "Harry Potter" books. The Lexicon lists characters, places, creatures, spells, potions and magical devices, as well as analyzing

title: Politics of Harry Potter

text: middle class, especially whenever Harry confronts his ludicrously dysfunctional and downright abusive adopted family, the Dursleys." The critic Anthony Holden wrote in "The Observer" on his experience of judging "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" for the 1999 Whitbread Awards. His overall view of the series was very negative—"the Potter saga was essentially patronising, very conservative, highly derivative, dispiritingly nostalgic for a bygone Britain." A review in "The Guardian" echoed this interpretation and stated that "despite all of the books' gestures to multiculturalism and gender equality, Harry Potter is a conservative; a paternalistic, One-Nation Tory, perhaps, but a Tory

title: A Very Potter Sequel

text: Hermione, but she shoots him down. However, Draco meets Luna Lovegood, and the two bond over Pigfarts, the wizarding school on Mars. In Dumbledore's office, the Sorting Hat and Scarfy are reunited and they both decide to get married. Harry visits Dumbledore and the two discuss that their days away from Hogwarts are what make the time they have there so precious. Harry and the others all say goodbye for the summer, knowing that there will always be a way back. ("Days of Summer"/"Goin' Back to Hogwarts"). Similarly to "A Very Potter Musical", Darren Criss had altered some of the

title: Harry Potter prequel

text: might purchase it will really understand the benefits to people out there, what it can do," he said. "If it's destroyed, or if it's lost, it's a great loss." Harry Potter prequel An 800-word, untitled short story, unofficially known as the Harry Potter prequel, was written by J. K. Rowling in 2008 as part of a charity auction event, for which it fetched £25,000. The story recounts an encounter with Muggle police experienced by Sirius Black and James Potter, taking place before the events of the "Harry Potter" series. The manuscript was stolen in 2017. Two Muggle policemen chase a

title: Harry Potter influences and analogues

text: books. It gave one a curious feeling; like seeing a drunken stranger wrapped in one's dressing gown.'" The "Harry Potter" series is known for its twist endings, and Rowling has stated that, "I have never set up a surprise ending in a Harry Potter book without knowing I can never, and will never, do it anywhere near as well as Austen did in "Emma"." Rowling frequently mentions E. Nesbit in interview, citing her "very real" child characters. In 2000, she said, "I think I identify with E Nesbit more than any other writer", and described Nesbit's "The Story of the

text: 1997 with an initial print-run of 500 copies in hardback, three hundred of which were distributed to libraries. By the end of 1997, the UK edition won a National Book Award and a gold medal in the 9 to 11 year-olds category of the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize. The second novel, "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", was published in the UK on 2 July 1998. "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" was published a year later in the UK on 8 July 1999 and in the US on 8 September 1999. "Harry Potter and the Goblet of

text: at the end of the world. The quotation on Dumbledore's family tomb, "Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also", is from Matthew 6:21, and refers to knowing which things in life are of true value. "They're very British books," Rowling revealed to an Open Book conference in October 2007, "So on a very practical note Harry was going to find biblical quotations on tombstones, [but] I think those two particular quotations he finds on the tombstones at Godric's Hollow, … almost epitomise the whole series." Tom Willow stated that "Harry Potter going knowingly to his death at

title: Harry Potter: The Exhibition

text: other artefacts from the creation of the Harry Potter film series. Among the items on display are Harry Potter's wand and eyeglasses. Also featured are film sets, such the Great Hall and Gryffindor Common Room from the fictional school Hogwarts, which is a major setting in the Wizarding World. Beginning in 2016, some artefacts from the "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" film series have also been included. Harry Potter: The Exhibition Harry Potter: The Exhibition is a traveling exhibition of props, costumes, and other artefacts from the creation of the Harry Potter film series. The exhibition originally opened

title: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

text: "They're very British books, so on a very practical note Harry was going to find biblical quotations on tombstones ... [but] I think those two particular quotations he finds on the tombstones at Godric's Hollow, they sum up – they almost epitomise the whole series". "Harry Potter" pundit John Granger additionally noted that one of the reasons the "Harry Potter" books were so popular is their use of literary alchemy (similar to "Romeo and Juliet", C. S. Lewis's "Perelandra" and Charles Dickens's "A Tale of Two Cities") and vision symbolism. In this model, authors weave allegorical tales along the alchemical

title: Harry Potter Alliance

text: their iReporter site, the Harry Potter Alliance asked members to upload submissions showing their love for Harry Potter while holding signs that said, "Save Darfur." Then, in 2008, the HPA asked members to withhold support for sponsors of the 2008 Summer Olympics who were "implicitly funding the genocide in Darfur through overseas investments." In conjunction with the release of the "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" film in 2009, the organisation launched a "What Would Dumbledore Do" campaign, asking fans to tweet about the lessons they learned from Harry Potter's headmaster Albus Dumbledore using #dumbledore, attend the film release wearing

title: A Very Potter Musical

text: as Quirinus Quirrell and Joe Walker as Lord Voldemort. In late June 2009, the group put the entire musical up on YouTube and it became a viral video, obtaining millions of views. The musical allowed StarKid to create subsequent musicals, such as "Me and My Dick" (2009), "A Very Potter Sequel" (2010), "Starship" (2011), "Holy Musical B@man!" (2012), and "Twisted: The Untold Story of a Royal Visier" (2013). A third installment called "A Very Potter Senior Year" premiered at LeakyCon on August 11, 2012. Harry Potter, the legendary "Boy Who Lived", rejoices that he is entering his second year at

title: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

text: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is a fantasy novel written by British author J. K. Rowling and the sixth and penultimate novel in the "Harry Potter" series. Set during protagonist Harry Potter's sixth year at Hogwarts, the novel explores the past of Harry's nemesis, Lord Voldemort, and Harry's preparations for the final battle against Voldemort alongside his headmaster and mentor Albus Dumbledore. The book was published in the United Kingdom by Bloomsbury, and in the United States by Scholastic on 16 July 2005, as well as in several other countries. It sold nine

title: A Very Potter Senior Year

text: "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" and "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince") by J. K. Rowling, as well as their film counterparts. "A Very Potter Senior Year" draws heavily upon the "Chamber of Secrets" and "Half-Blood Prince" novels. Luna Lovegood and Neville Longbottom wander the Department of Mysteries, chased by Death Eaters. The Death Eaters manage to retrieve Tom Riddle's diary from a safe in the Ministry, but this is taken from them by Ron, who rescues Luna and Neville. The three join Hermione outside the Room of Death, but are again surrounded by foes ("This is the

text: Doe. Outside these controversies, a number of particular incidents related to "Harry Potter" have also led, or almost led, to legal action. In 2005, a man was sentenced to four years in prison after firing a replica gun at a journalist during a staged deal for stolen copies of an unreleased "Harry Potter" novel, and attempting to blackmail the publisher with threats of releasing secrets from the book. Then in 2007 Bloomsbury Publishing contemplated legal action against the supermarket chain Asda for libel after the company accused them of overpricing the final "Harry Potter" novel, "Harry Potter and the Deathly

text: of 21 July. In an official statement, Scholastic appealed "to the "Harry Potter" fans who bought their books from DeepDiscount.com and may receive copies early requesting that they keep the packages hidden until midnight on 21 July." Customers who agreed not to read the book received a special "Harry Potter" t-shirt and a $50 coupon for Scholastic's online store. In June 2005, Aaron Lambert, a security guard at a book distribution centre in Corby, Northamptonshire, England, stole a number of pages from "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" six weeks before its intended publication date. He was arrested a day

title: Harry Potter video games

text: last four games in the main series, has received much praise for the quality of his work on the franchise, as has Jeremy Soule who preceded him. "Book of Spells" also received a nomination for "game innovation" at the BAFTA Awards in 2013. As of 2014, The Harry Potter video game series was stated to have sold $1.5 billion in sales. Harry Potter video games The "Harry Potter" video games are multiple series of video games based on the fictional world of "Harry Potter", originally created by J.K. Rowling, and published by Electronic Arts and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. Many

title: Harry Potter

text: 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. The "Harry Potter" brand has been estimated to be worth as much as $25 billion. The great demand for Harry Potter books motivated "The New York Times" to create a separate best-seller 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