Readers are quite fascinated by the huge worldwide success of the Harry Potter stories. The Harry Potter books were written by the UK author J.K. Rowling. She was given birth to on 31 July 1965. Her full name is Joanne Rowling. But she writes under the short form J.K. Rowling because primarily her publishing company thought it was a helpful move not to show the point that she is female. The publishing company thought it might have a negative effect on the sales numbers if everybody immediately sees that the writer was female. Thus, instead of using her first name she used two initials. As she has no middle name she chose Kathleen as basis for the K. in her alias. Kathleen is the name of her grandma.
The very first Harry Potter story – Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone – was published in June 1997 in in Great Britain. Very mentionable is the point that only 1,000 units of the first story were printed at that time. The original title of the novel was not Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone, but Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone. But when the novel was publicized to the United States marketplace in the year 1998, it was renamed Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone.
After that Joanne invented six more Harry Potter books. Now the Harry Potter series consists of seven stories. 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 novels have been translated into over 60 languages and have been released in a lot of countries. Besides the big success in the USA and the UK, Harry Potter is also very renowned in the EU. The Harry Potter stories (German book shop: Harry Potter Buecher Kaufen) have been publicized in Germany under these headers:
- Buch 1: Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen
- Buch 2: Harry Potter und die Kammer des Schreckens
- Buch 3: Harry Potter und der Gefangene von Askaban
- Buch 4: Harry Potter und der Feuerkelch
- Buch 5: Harry Potter und der Orden des Phoenix
- Buch 6: Harry Potter und der Halbblutprinz
- Buch 7: Harry Potter und die Heiligtuemer des Todes
I must admit that I did not have the opportunity to read all the stories. But there are people who know them all, which is quite fascinating and makes up the big success.
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