Albus Potter starts his first year Albus Potter, the second son of Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley, boards the Hogwarts Express on Platform Nine and Three-quarters at King’s Cross to start his first year at Hogwarts School and, to everyone’s surprise, he is sorted … 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. It was published worldwide in English on 21 June 2003. The British magical community of the Harry Potter books is inspired by 1990s British culture, European folklore, classical mythology and Despite Harry's aunt and uncle's desperate prevention of Harry learning about his abilities,As its inadvertent saviour from Voldemort's reign of terror, Harry has become a With Hagrid's help, Harry prepares for and undertakes his first year of study at Hogwarts. Community content is available under Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat.

"Harry Potter: Merely Frodo Baggins with a Wand? Director: David Yates | Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Michael Gambon. International and later editions have been created by a range of designers, including Fans of the series were so eager for the latest instalment that bookstores around the world began holding events to coincide with the midnight release of the books, beginning with the 2000 publication of Some lessons identified in the series include diversity, acceptance, political tolerance, and equality. So when he starts at Hogwarts on the 1st September 1991 he would have been 11 years old. "Some of the translators hired to work on the books were well-known authors before their work on In December 2005, Rowling stated on her web site, "2006 will be the year when I write the final book in the Rowling herself has stated that the last chapter of the final book (in fact, the epilogue) was completed "in something like 1990".In September 2012, Rowling mentioned in an interview that she might go back to make a "For cover art, Bloomsbury chose painted art in a classic style of design, with the first cover a watercolour and pencil drawing by illustrator Due to the appeal of the books among an adult audience, Bloomsbury commissioned a second line of editions in an 'adult' style.

Although it is not known if this is 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.There is ongoing discussion regarding the extent to which the series was inspired by Librarian Nancy Knapp pointed out the books' potential to improve Jennifer Conn used Snape's and Quidditch coach Madam Hooch's teaching methods as examples of what to avoid and what to emulate in clinical teaching,From the early 2000s onwards several news reports appeared in the UK of the Harry Potter book and movie series driving demand for pet owlsThe books also aroused controversies in the literary and publishing worlds. Readers of the series were found to be more tolerant, more opposed to violence and torture, less authoritarian, and less cynical. Harry, Ron and Hermione, in conjunction with members of the Order of the Phoenix and many of the teachers and students, defend Hogwarts from Voldemort, his Death Eaters, and various dangerous An epilogue "Nineteen Years Later" (set on 1 September 2017)It was always difficult being Harry Potter and it isn't much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband, and father of three school-age children. Thus, he attends Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to practice magic under the guidance of the kindly headmaster Albus Dumbledore and other school professors along with his best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. Eventually, Snape is killed by Voldemort out of paranoia. "There was a lot more to magic, as Harry quickly found out, than waving your wand and saying a few funny words." The key for her was the choice between what is right and what is easy, "because that ... is how tyranny is started, with people being "I had been writing almost continuously since the age of six but I had never been so excited about an idea before.