![]() ![]() Translated into more than 80 languages, over 500 million copies have now been sold, making Harry Potter the best-selling book series in history.Ĭould anyone have predicted such an extraordinary success story? Well, yes, one person did. ![]() ![]() Six more books followed, with the last appearing in 2007, and each one awaited with breathless anticipation by an ever-expanding army of Harry Potter fans around the world. But it wasn’t until seven years later that the world was finally introduced to Harry, when Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was published.įor the first time, readers became aware of the wizarding world met Harry, Ron and Hermione visited the hallowed halls of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and discovered the terrible peril Harry would face, confronted by one of the most dangerous Dark wizards of all time.Īnd so, the phenomenon of Harry Potter grew. Rowling conceived the original idea for her black-haired, bespectacled boy-wizard. It all began on a train journey from Manchester to London, back in 1990, when J. ![]()
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