harry potter

Harry Potter is the lead character in a phenomenally successful series of children's books written by the Scottish author JK Rowling. It was subsequently made into a series of movies.

Famously Rowling (whose first name is Joanne, but publishers were concerned a female name would put off boy readers) was rejected by 12 publishers before Bloomsbury published Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. It was with the fourth book in the series, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, that Rowling really got major attention, and Harry became a cult figure.

Harry ages with each book, being very much a child in the beginning, but by the Half-Blood Prince he's an adolescent, and almost an adult by the conclusion of the final book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, he's virtually an adult.

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• Rupert Grint: Half-Blood Prince Romance-On Set DVD Feature!

  
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• Things I’ve learned from Harry Potter

  
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• Video, Photos: Wizarding World of Harry Potter construction update for November 10, 2009

  
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• Videos: HBP deleted scene and cast interviews

  
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• Tom Felton at BBC Switch Live

  
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• Hal-Blood Prince nominated at People’s Choice Awards

  
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• “Half-Blood Prince” Newly Released Deleted Scene Features Tom Felton

  
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• The BBC Picks One Perfect Rose for Tom Felton

  
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• Will Dumbledore’s gay lover be in HARRY POTTER and the DEATHLY HALLOWS films?

  
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• Harry Potter & the Magical Muggle Museum @ the Penn Museum

  
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