Web Quest on Harry
Potter
Introduction
Joanne Rowling was born on
31st July 1965 at Yate General Hospital near Bristol, and grew up in
Gloucestershire in England and in Chepstow, Gwent, in south-east Wales. Her
father, Peter, was an aircraft engineer at the Rolls Royce factory in Bristol
and her mother, Anne, was a science technician in the Chemistry department at
Wyedean Comprehensive, where Jo herself went to school. Anne was
diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when Jo was a teenager and died in 1990 before the Harry Potter books were published.
J.K. Rowling first had the idea for Harry Potter while delayed on a train traveling from Manchester to London King’s Cross in 1990. Over the next five years, she began to plan out the seven books of the series. She wrote mostly in longhand and amassed a mountain of notes, many of which were on scraps of paper.
The book was first published by Bloomsbury Children’s Books in June 1997, under the name J.K.Rowling. The “K” stands for Kathleen, her paternal grandmother’s name. It was added at her publisher’s request, who thought a book by an obviously female author might not appeal to the target audience of young boys. Her first novel was published in the US by Scholastic under a different title
(again at the publisher’s request), Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,
in 1998. Six further titles followed in the Harry Potter series, each
achieving record-breaking success.
In 2001, the film adaptation of the first book was released by Warner Bros. and was followed by six more book adaptations, concluding with the release of the eighth film, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, in 2011.
For more information about the task
There are seven books in
series as mentioned below:
1) Harry Potter and
Philosopher's Stone
2) Harry Potter and Chamber of Secrets
3) Harry Potter and
Prisoner of Azkaban
4) Harry Potter and Goblet of Fire
5) Harry Potter and Order of Phoenix
6) Harry Potter the
Half-Blood Prince
7) Harry Potter and the
Deathly Hallows
Harry Potter Complete 8- Film collection by Warner bros.
1) Harry Potter and
Philosopher's Stone
2) Harry Potter and Chamber of Secrets
3) Harry Potter and
Prisoner of Azkaban
4) Harry Potter and Goblet of Fire
5) Harry Potter and Order of Phoenix
6) Harry Potter the
Half-Blood Prince
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