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The franchise has grossed more than $21 billion. Here are 11 words that even ordinary muggles have adopted into common parlance.
The word redrum (i.e., "red rum") is used this way for murder in the Stephen King novel The Shining (1977) and its film adaptation (1980). [ 11 ] Anadromes exist in other written languages as well, as can be seen, for example, in Spanish orar ↔ raro or French l'ami naturel ("the natural friend") ↔ le rut animal ("the animal rut").
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the longest book in the series at 766 pages in the UK version and 870 pages in the US version. [62] It was published worldwide in English on 21 June 2003. [63] Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was published on 16 July 2005 and sold 11 million copies in the first 24 hours of its worldwide release.
The Lexicon is credited as creating one of the first timelines of all events occurring in the Harry Potter universe. A similar timeline of events was adopted by Warner Bros. for inclusion with their Harry Potter film DVDs, and was accepted by author J. K. Rowling as conforming to her works. The Lexicon is a winner of J. K. Rowling's Fan Site Award.
"Way back in 1997, when Mary first sketched out ideas for the U.S. edition of the first Harry Potter cover, the working title was Harry Potter and the School of Magic.
The Elephant House was one of the cafés in Edinburgh where Rowling wrote the first part of Harry Potter.. The series follows the life of a boy named Harry Potter.In the first book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the US), Harry lives in a cupboard under the stairs in the house of the Dursleys, his aunt, uncle and cousin, who all treat him poorly.
A heptalogy (/ h ɛ p ˈ t æ l ə dʒ i /; from Greek ἑπτα-hepta-, "seven" and -λογία-logia, "discourse") is a compound literary or narrative work that is made up of seven distinct works. [1] While not in wide usage, it has been used to describe such examples as the Harry Potter series of books, [2] and The Chronicles of Narnia. [3]
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (known as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the United States) is a 2001 fantasy film directed by Chris Columbus and produced by David Heyman from a screenplay by Steve Kloves. It is based on the 1997 novel Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling.