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Harry PotterThe adventures of Harry Potter start with the school of the wizards. Harry Potter is a 10 year old orphan who lives with a family which hates it. It is not yet 11 years old it learns it has provisions towards the magic and it has a rather interesting past. Then he was still a baby, his parents were killed with the course a fight against the cheappest magician who ground is known: Lord Voldemort. Miraculeusement, Harry escaped to the cruel magician in a combat which left him a small mark forms D flash of them on the face. As a magician, Harry can register with Poudlard, the school of the wizards. This is in this school that Harry becomes aware of any importance of its past. Poudlard is a marvellous, invisible place with not-initiate, those which do not practise the magic. Poudlard exempts courses like the flying training of the brushes or the lessons of first aid of the magic creatures. During its first year with Poudlard, Harry starts to develop its ability and quickly understands any wide of these capacities. He quickly becomes the best player of Quidditch, a play resembling the football but which is played on a flying brush. But Harry Potter learns much more than the wheels of the magic with Poudlard. Beyond the fates and magic potions, Poudlard is a place where the students learn L’importance from friendship, honest and honesty. Harry learns how there to rely on him even thus to make decisions. It is also found to face its enemy of always: the terrible Lord Voldemort who is back. Finally, by the force and courage, Harry in victorious fate. Following episodes: the Room of the secrecies, the prisoner of Azkaban, the Cut of fire, L’order of the Phoenix and finally the Prince of mixed blood involve Harry Potter in insane adventures, sometimes alarming. Throughout these adventures, one discovers there his interior fights against which it must fight for finally becoming a ripe and considered adult. The books of Harry Potter very creative, perspicacious, are well written and frankly amusing. The world imagined by Rowling allows a generation raised in the computers and the drawings animated to create a beautiful reflexion appropriateness.
 
1990 Ideas for Harry Potter and the wizard world form in J.K. Rowling's mind while she is on an interminable train journey from Manchester to King's Cross.
1991 J.K. Rowling goes to Portugal to teach English as a foreign language. There, she writes 10 different first chapters for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
1993 J.K. Rowling returns from Portugal with a suitcase half full of Harry Potter stories.
1994 J.K. Rowling continues to write the books in Edinburgh cafes.
1995 J.K. Rowling finishes the first book and types it out on an old typewriter. She sends it to an agent and a publisher. Several publishers reject the novel.
1996 Bloomsbury accepts the manuscript for publication outright. The Scottish Arts Council gives J.K. Rowling a grant to work on her books.
June 1997 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone published by Bloomsbury.
November 1997 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone wins the Nestlé Smarties Gold Award 9-11 years.
February 1998 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone wins the Children's Book of the Year Award at the prestigious British Book Awards.
June 1998 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone wins the Children's Book Award.
July 1998 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is published by Bloomsbury and goes straight into the no.1 slot in BookTrack bestseller list.
October 1998 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone published in the USA. Warner Bros. secures film rights to the first two books for a seven-figure sum.
December 1998 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets wins the Nestlé Smarties Gold Award 9-11 years. J. K. Rowling becomes the first author to win the Nestlé Smarties Prize two years in a row.
January 1999 A time capsule is buried at King's Cross on publication of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets in paperback. It contains predictions from children on what they think will happen in book 7.
February 1999 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets wins the Children's Book of the Year Award at the British Book Awards.
April 1999 J.K. Rowling wins The Booksellers Association/The Bookseller Author of the Year Award.
June 1999 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets wins one of the inaugural Scottish Arts Council Children's Book Awards. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets wins the Children's Book Award based on votes from 60,000 children.
July 1999 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is published by Bloomsbury at 3.45 pm, and it topples Thomas Harris's book Hannibal from the top of the bestseller list. It becomes the fastest selling book, with 64,000 being sold in the first 3 days.
December 1999 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban wins the Nestlé Smarties Gold Award 9-11 years and J.K. Rowling receives a special certificate to celebrate her winning of this prize for the third year running.
March 2000 J.K. Rowling reveals in a press conference that someone will die in the new book, that Harry's hormones will start to kick in and that the Quidditch World Cup will be featured.
April 2000 The paperback edition of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is published, accompanied by cinema advertising with Pokemon and Tigger.
May 2000 J.K. Rowling wins the The Booksellers Association/The Bookseller Author of the Year Award for the second year in a row.
June2000 J.K. Rowling awarded an OBE.
July 2000 Publication date of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. The book breaks all records to become the fastest selling book ever. The publication is accompanied by the Hogwarts Express UK tour.
March 2001

J.K. Rowling’s two little books in aid of Comic Relief go on sale. They are entitled Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander and Quidditch Through the Ages by Kennilworthy Whisp. Printers, typesetters, paper merchants and retailers are asked to join the publishers in donating their services. And, in keeping with Comic Relief's 'Golden Pound' principle, for every pound raised by the books, a pound goes directly to projects tackling poverty and promoting social justice in some of the poorest countries in the world.

May 2001 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire wins Scottish Arts Council Book Award.
June 2001 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire awarded the 2001 Children's Book Award in the 9-11 category.
July 2001  Paperback edition of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire released in U.K.
November 2001 Film of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone released in U.K. and U.S.
November 2002 Film of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets released in U.K and U.S.
January 2003 Publication Date for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix announced.
June 2003 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix published in the UK and US.
July 2004 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix published in paperback.
December 2004 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Princepublication date announced.
16 July 2005 Publication date of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
23 June 2006 Publication date of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in paperback.
January 2007 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows publication date announced.
21 July 2007 Publication date of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

 


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