The idea of Harry Potter's first blaze in the mind of J. K. Rowling when boarded the train from Manchester to London in 1990. At that time, she had just divorced and took the initiative to make Harry Potter as the inspiration of his life. He spent time in the way it is by thinking of a complete plot of the story. On its website, Rowling recounts it:"I've written almost without pause since the age of six but previously I have never felt so excited about an idea. I just sit and think, for four hours (waiting for a train delay), and all the minutiae popping up in my brain, and skinny boys with black hair and glasses who does not realize that he was a wizard became more and more real to me . "
In 1995, the first book titled Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (translated into Indonesian language as Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone) was completed and submitted the manuscript to several agents. The second agent she tried, Christopher Little, offered to represent her and sent the manuscript to Bloomsbury. After eight other publishers rejected Philosopher's Stone, Bloomsbury offered £ 3,000 advance to publish it. [5]
Although Rowling has said that he did not have a specific target audience of age when she started writing Harry Potter books, the publisher at the outset has set a target readership between the ages of nine to eleven. [6] On the night before publication, Joanne Rowling was asked by a publisher to use pseudonyms are more gender-neutral, in order to attract boys in that age range, because they worry that boys will not be interested in reading a novel they knew to be written by a woman. He chose to use the name J. K. Rowling (Joanne Kathleen Rowling), took her grandmother's name as the name of both, because he did not have a middle name. [7]
The first Harry Potter book published in Britain by Bloomsbury in July 1997. In the United States the book was published by Scholastic in September 1998, in which Rowling has received $ 105,000 for the rights for the United States - a value that is not unusual for a children's book written by authors unknown (at the time). [8] Worried that the readers in America do not understand the word "philosoper" or do not regard it as the theme of magic (because "Philosoper's Stone" or the philosopher's stone is a word in the field of alchemy), Scholastic insisted to change the name of the book was to be Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone for the market America.
For nearly a decade, Harry Potter has experienced great success, not only because of positive reviews and publisher of Rowling's marketing strategy, but also because the conversation through word of mouth among his fans, especially among adolescent boys. Among adolescent boys is important, because over the years among this less and less interested in reading that are considered out of date than the video games and the Internet. Publisher Rowling managed to capture the excitement among adolescent boys and soon released the first four books in quick succession, so that they can afford their enthusiasm dimmed when Rowling intends to write a break between the release of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix , and immediately formed a group of loyal readers. [9] This series is also getting the fans today, with the publication of two editions of each Harry Potter book (in Canada and the United Kingdom, but not in the United States). Both have the exact same script, but with a different cover, for each issue of children and adultsPlot summaries
For a novel synopsis, see the relevant articles in each series.
The story opens with the celebration of the world's unbridled magic (which usually is a secret community) after years of terror by Lord Voldemort. On the previous night, Voldemort had discovered the secret refuge Potter family, and killed James and Lily Potter. However, when he directed his wand to their baby, Harry, the curse of the killer who issued even turned to himself. Spirits Voldemort himself torn from his body were destroyed, disappeared from the world of magic, but not dead. In the meantime, the only result of the curse that failed it left scars on his forehead, lightning bolt-shaped defects. Harry's mysterious defeat of Voldemort gave special mention among the world of magic, "Children of Men who Survived Life." This title in particular because there is no magician who directed by Voldemort to survive against him.
The next night, a witch brings Harry to Aunt and uncle, the Dursleys, where he will live for years afterward. The Dursleys are Harry's family is cruel and it is those non-Witch. They always try to hide the background of Harry who is a descendant of witches and wizards, and give him punishment if there are strange happenings.
On his eleventh birthday, Harry get his first contacts with the world of magic, when he received a letter from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft, which tried to hide by my uncle and aunt, until he failed to read the letter. The letter was in the end to read it after he was found by Hagrid, Supervisor of Wild Animals at Hogwarts. Hagrid told him that he really was a witch, and the letter informed him that he provided a place to study at Hogwarts. Each volume of the Harry Potter novel tells the story of one year of Harry's life, mostly spent in lessons at Hogwarts, where he studied the use of magic and make potions. Harry also learned how to overcome obstacles magic, social, and emotional during her adolescence. In the same period, Voldemort also tried to return to his physical body and return all his strength, while the Ministry of Magic is trying also to refuse to acknowledge the threat of Voldemort's return. Rejection of the Ministry of Magic This then causes a lot of trouble for Harry Potter.[Edit] Harry Potter World
World of magic in the story of Harry Potter is a world that is in our world today but also well separated at all by magic. If compared, the story of Narnia fantasy world of magic is an alternative world, while in Lord of the Rings Middle Earth is a world-myth in the past. Environmental magic of Harry Potter is told is in the midst of our world today, with magical objects similar to objects in the scope of non-magic. Institutions and locations were similar or even same as in the real world, like London. Environment magic at all can not be seen by the population of non-magical (or Muggle, for example: The Dursleys).
Magic talent is natural ability that has been there since birth, unable to appear due to be learned. Those who have a magic talent should follow the lessons in schools such as Hogwarts in order to master and control it. However, there is the possibility that children born in families that have little witch magic talent or even none at all (called "Squibs", for example Mrs. Figg, Argus Filch). The witch is not necessarily born in a family of witches, and many of them are born from parents (Muggles) who did not know magic. They are pure-blooded wizards are often not familiar with the world of Muggles, even feel more strange to them than we view their world. However, the world of magic and stunning elements was described as the world-that-really-like-with-real-world. One of the main themes in this novel is the existence of the wizarding world and the mundane world, in which the characters live in an environment that has the problems that "normal", even if they live in between the magic.[Edit] Things that repetitive
* Blood Purity (Harry Potter):
The witches are generally looked Muggle with condescension and suspicion, a problem with this attitude for some little witch bigotry. Those who are fanatical boxing themselves on the basis of many of their ancestors, where the witches' pure-blooded "(those whose family are all witches) is considered as the most high, witch" bleed-mix "(those who have children witches and Muggles) at the secondary level, and "Muggle-born" (those without offspring witch) as the lowest. The supporters of blood purity believe that only those who are "pure-blooded" was the right to control the world of magic, and do not assume that the magician "Muggle-born" as a real witch. Some of them even go too far by killing the "Muggle-born" so as not to learn magic. Most of these fanatics is a pure-blooded, although it should be noted that Voldemort, who supports this fanaticism, are really bloody witch-mix. In addition, very little is actually only a magician who really pure-blooded, and therefore without being married with a population of Muggles, witches over time will run out. However, many families witch who cover that exist between their families who married the Muggles. One example of this is in a family like the BlacksPublications Books The Half-Blood Prince prior to launch date
Publication massive Half-Blood Prince controversy tinged with the inevitable and not unexpected. In May 2005, the British bookmakers suspended betting on which the main character will die in the book because of fears of bookmakers with knowledge of those inside. A number of big bets made for the death of Albus Dumbledore, mostly from Bungay, Suffolk, a place where the books were printed. Gambling later reopened. Other controversies included the "right to read" Potter books inadvertently sold before the date of launch, the environmental issues regarding the source of the dipergunakna paper to print millions of books, and fan reaction to the development of plot and disclosures in the novel.
In early July 2005, the Real Canadian Superstore, a large retail store in Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada, accidentally sold fourteen of The Half-Blood Prince before the official launch date. Canadian publisher, Raincoast Books, have strict orders from the Supreme Court of British Columbia to prohibit the buyer to read the books before the official release date and forbade them to discuss the contents.
The buyers are offered a T-shirt Harry Potter and the books that have signed the author when they return the books before July 16, 2005.
On July 15, 2005, less than 12 hours before the official launch of this book, Raincoast warned The Globe and Mail newspaper that published a review of a Canadian writer at midnight, as promised the newspaper, as a violation of court orders will trade secrecy. This court order to immediately become news in a variety of news articles stating that the order had violated human rights. A Canadian law professor Michael Geist commented on this issue in weblognya. [Citation needed] Richard Stallman, an environmental activist and founder of the GPL called for a boycott, and asked the publisher to apologize. The Globe and Mail published a review of two writers from Britain on July 16th edition, and published a review of a Canadian writer had on their web site at 9 am. Explanations are also available on the Raincoast website.
In addition to the above controversy, in the same week, a Chicago department store, Walgreens, accidentally [citation needed] also sell a book. When the purchaser read about the incident in Canada on the Internet, this buyer said that he would not return the book, but he will not read the novel until the U.S. release date. controversy Environment
Harry Potter book is also a controversy on environmental issues. Before and after the launch of the book, the environmental organization Greenpeace and the National Wildlife Federation, to encourage consumers in the United States who planned to buy Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince to buy it from the issue of Canada, Raincoast Books, which printed it on recycled paper 2%, free-chlorine, and do not use ingredients from ancient trees. United States edition of the book, published by Scholastic Press, printed on paper that does not know the percentage of recycled content she repeated, because Scholastic declined to announce it to the public. But Scholastic claims on the last page of the book, that book did not use wood fiber from ancient trees.
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