Thursday, September 2, 2010

Harry Potter

Harry Potter series of seven novels written by British author JK Rowling's fantasy. Chronicle Books adolescent wizard Harry Potter's adventures and best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, all students at Hogwarts in witchcraft. As Harry tries storylines, the evil dark wizard Lord Voldemort, whose goal is to get people to not beat the magic in the world of magic, to defeat and destroy all who stand in your way, especially the Harry Potter series.

On June 30, 1997 reached the beginning of the first novel Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, the books remain popular, critical and commercial success around the world. This series also has some critics, including concerns about the tone darker and darker. In June 2011 a series of books that sold 450 million copies and been translated into 67 languages, and the last four years of consecutive record-selling book in history.

The number of different genres, including fantasy and adulthood (with elements of mystery, adventure suspense, and romance), which has many meanings and cultural eferences.According Rowling, the focus is death, but this is mainly the work of literature for children. There is another theme of the series, such as love and prejudice.

The original publisher of the book was important in the UK Bloomsbury and Scholastic Press in the United States, the books were published by many Publishers in the world. In October 2011, the series will be released in book format with the help of various "Potter More." The book is a series of eight episodes of Warner Bros. Pictures, with the seventh book into two parts, the most successful movie series of all time. A series of tie-in merchandise, and therefore the cost of the Harry Potter brand is more than $ 15000000000 m

Plot

Novels about Harry Potter, an orphan at the age of eleven, he discovered, was a magician, which rotates in ordinary non-magical world of Muggles, people are living.
His ability is innate, and children are invited to a school that provides the skills needed to learn to succeed in the wizarding world. Harry became a student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and there is much of the novel takes place. "When Harry develops from adolescence, he learns to overcome his problems: the development of magical, social and emotional, including such problems as a normal teenage friendship and tests, as well as the biggest challenge in preparation for future confrontations.

Each book describes a year in Harry's life with the main plot in 1991-1998. The book also contains a lot of memories, which is usually described by the memories of the characters displayed on the device, called a Pensieve.

The first year

When the story of Harry Potter is open, as is evident from the key events happening in the world of magic, not good if Muggles see some signs of it. Total funds of individuals and the story of Harry Potter only gradually revealed through a series. In the first book, Harry discovers that a child who witnessed the murder of his parents with the dark wizard Lord Voldemort, who tried to kill her must-have. For reasons not immediately revealed, Voldemort tried to kill Harry's fate recovered. Harry survived the lightning scar on his forehead as a reminder of the attack, and Voldemort disappeared. As a rule of horror lifesaver volunteered Voldemort, Harry's living legend in the wizarding world. However, under the command wizard Albus Dumbledore respected and most famous, Harry was an orphan brought to the house of evil Muggle (non-wizard) relatives, the Dursleys. The Dursleys to stay safe, but hide their true heritage from him in the hope that it will grow "normal."

Voldemort's return

In Harry's fourth year of school (as in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, detail) Harry accidentally as a participant in the Triwizard Tournament, a dangerous competition, in which Harry and the Witch "defending champions have included" visiting assistant school and other students at Hogwarts. Harry through the tournament Mad-Eye "Professor Alastor" Moody, who lost consciousness fraud - one of the Voldemort's followers are known as Barty Crouch Jr. in disguise. The point at which the mystery of evolution followed by a series of anxiety and uncertainty into open conflict. Voldemort plans to use the tournament to take Crouch Harry Voldemort to succeed. Although he walked Harry, Cedric Diggory, the other Hogwarts champion in the tournament, was killed, and Voldemort was there.

Completion of the series

In December 2005, Rowling said on its website: "In 2006, the year of writing the last book of the Harry Potter series." Updates followed in his online diary that tells the story of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, with a release date July 21, 2007. The book was completed on January 11, 2007 at the Hotel Balmoral in Edinburgh, where he wrote a message on the back of the statue of Hermes. He said: "JK Rowling finished writing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in this room (552) January 11, 2007. "The same author says that the last chapter of the last book (in fact, the epilogue) was completed" in something, like in 1990. "In June 2006, JK Rowling, the British talk show appearance on Richard & Judy, announced that the head was turned, and the face of" rest ", and two others who survived, and the story was actually murdered. March 28, 2007 Cover for Bloomsbury Adult and children's versions and the Scholastic version were released.

Prizes and Awards

Harry Potter is the recipient of numerous awards from the first publication of the Philosopher's Stone including four Whitaker Platinum Book Award (given in 2001), three NestlĂ© Smarties Book Prize (1997-1999), two Scottish Arts Council Book Award (1999 and 2001), Whitbread Children's Book of the first year (1999), WH Smith Book of the Year (2006), among others. In 2000, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban for the Hugo Award Nominations for best novel, and in 2001 won the Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Specialization Carnegie Medal Award (1997), a short list of premium guardians of children (1998), and a list of many famous books Editors Choice '»and best books lists of the American Library Association, the New York Times Chicago Public Library, and Publishers Weekly.




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