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Despite the series being over for a number of years, Rowling has found small ways to feed fans hunger for more. It was clear that Rowling’s series was indeed magical.
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The films have made a combined total of seven billion dollars. The final movie, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2” was released in 2011.Īccording to Mental Floss, in 2015 Harry Potter was the second highest grossing film franchise of all-time, just below the Marvel franchise. Over the next decade, the rest of the books and films would be released to massive fan fare. Hollywood decided to capitalize on this success and in 2001, the film adaption of “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” was released to the masses and grossed over 974 million dollars. It was turning into something so big and became the kind of publishing phenomenon that became completely unpredictable,” said Szego.Īfter the release of the fourth novel, “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,” readers of all ages, especially children and teenagers, became obsessed with Rowling’s series. “ could tell by the time book two came out that there was something odd about the phenomenon. However, by the time “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” was released booksellers knew that there was something different about these books, the likes of which had never been seen before. “When it first began, it wasn’t this reaction of, ‘Oh my god, Harry Potter!’ It was a children’s book that sold to a small to midsize British publisher for a normal amount of money, something like 2500 pounds,” said Szego. In June 1997, “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” was published by Bloomsbury Children’s Books.Īccording to Bakka Phoenix bookstore owner, Chris Szego, the launch of the first book wasn’t that big of a deal at the time. She sent the first three chapters to an assortment of literary agents and when one asked to see the rest, Rowling wrote the rest of the story rather quickly. Yet it wasn’t until her divorce in 1993 that the chapters of her first book really started to take off. The course of the next five years would see Rowling map out the seven-book series on a variety of scraps of paper. I simply sat and thought, for four (delayed train) hours, and all the details bubbled up in my brain, and this scrawny, black-haired, bespectacled boy who did not know he was a wizard became more and more real to me,” said Rowling on her website.
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“I had been writing almost continuously since the age of six but I had never been so excited about an idea before. Rowling had hoped to be a writer at an early age but it wasn’t until 1990 during a delayed train ride in London where her first big idea popped into her head an idea that would become one of the biggest franchises in the world twenty years after its release.