The Harry Potter novels have a huge group of followers in the world
I am quite impressed by the tremendous worldwide vogue of the Harry Potter books. The Harry Potter books were written by the English writer J.K. Rowling. She was given birth to on 31 July 1965. Her full name is Joanne Rowling. But she writes under the pen name J.K. Rowling because primarily her publisher thought it was a beneficial move to hide the matter that she is female. The publishing company feared it could have a negative effect on the sales figures if everybody immediately sees that the writer was a woman. Consequently, instead of showing her first name she used two initials. As she has no middle name she chose Kathleen as basis for the K. in her pen name. Kathleen is the name of her grandma.
The very first Harry Potter novel – Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone – was published in the year 1997 in the UK. Very interesting is the fact that only thousand pieces of the first story were publicized at the beginning. The original title of the book was not Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone, but Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone. But when the story was published to the US marketplace on 1 September 1998, it was publicized as Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone.
After that J.K. Rowling wrote six more Harry Potter books. Now the Harry Potter series is made of a total of seven books. These are:
- Book 1: Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone
- Book 2: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- Book 3: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Book 4: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Book 5: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Book 6: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Book 7: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
The Harry Potter books have been translated into at least fifty languages and have been publicized in a lot of countries. Besides the big success in the United States and Great Britain, Harry Potter is also very popular in Europe. The Harry Potter books have been publicized to the German audience under the following headers:
- Story 1: Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen
- Story 2: Harry Potter und die Kammer des Schreckens
- Story 3: Harry Potter und der Gefangene von Askaban
- Story 4: Harry Potter und der Feuerkelch
- Story 5: Harry Potter und der Orden des Phoenix
- Story 6: Harry Potter und der Halbblutprinz
- Story 7: Harry Potter und die Heiligtuemer des Todes
I must admit that I did not have the time to read all the books. But there are fans who know them all, which is quite impressive and is part of the big success.
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