Harry Potter Research Paper

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Joanne Rowling is the famous writer of the national phenomenon series Harry Potter. Born in Yate England on July 31, 19659. J.K. Rowling began showing ambition as a writer at a very young age she even wrote a book about a rabbit with measles and after getting praise on it from her mother as you would expect a mother to do for her six year old daughter young J.K. Rowling said to her mother “we will get it published now” later recalling it and admitting that it was a “bit of an odd thing for a child of the age of six to think. I dont know where it came from”. Trying her hand as a writer but without success many time made young J.K. Rowling question herself a time or two but with the help of some friends she was able to find her place among …show more content…

Rowling returned home from Portugal she was still in a rough patch with her recent losses and mistakes hitting her harder than ever she described this time as “rock bottom” but later said that rock bottom turned out to be a good foundation to build on. Although today Harry Potter is a world phenomenon and has set many records as both books and movies it did not start that way. After writing almost every night for three years she finished the rough draft of the first installment in Harry Potter so she started looking for an agent and typed the first three chapters out on an old fashion typewriter and started sending them out. After a few tries though she got a letter back and only being two sentences long J.K. Rowling says it was the best letter she ever received asking to see the rest of the book. Barry Cunningham is the name of the man who accepted Harry Potter and after doing so he advised J.K. Rowling to get a day job because he said very little chance of making money in writing children’s books. So she got a grant from the Scottish Art Council of 8000 pounds to help her look after Jessica and to start her next book “The Chamber of Secrets”. It took over a year to finaly find a publisher who would print the book but eventually J.K. Rowling got a call from Barry Cunningham who told her Bloomsbury Children’s Books had made an offer so “The Sorcerer’s Stone” was finally going to be published. In June 1997 the book was

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