Harry Potter - A Fantasy Novel

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Harry Potter is a fantasy literature written by a British author JK Rowling. Novel ends in 7th part. It describes the chronical lives of 3 students from Hogwarts school - A young boy Harry Potter who's a wizard i.e a magician and his friend Hermione Granger and Ron wisely. 

There are two type of people mentioned inthis novel is - one belongs to wizards (magician peoples) and another belongs to Muggles (Non magician peoples)

Harry Potter is written in 7 parts. All parts are sold world widely with a huge selling records. Even Last part set a record as the fastest selling - 11million copy's in just 24 Hrs of its release. 

These are 7 parts below 

 Name of the Part Released Year
 Philosopher's Stone          
       (1997)    
 Chamber of Secrets        (1998)
 Prisoner of Azkaban        (1999)
 Goblet of Fire        (2000)
 Order of the Phoenix        (2003)
 Half-Blood Prince        (2005)
 Deathly Hallows        (2007)

Origins ✓

Origin of this amazing novel starts from delayed Trains according to JK Rowling.

According to him in 1990 he was stuck in a train from Manchester to london, was  packed with huge crowd. What he felt in train that was written in his novel.

Mysterious train 

JK Rowling said •

"I had been writing almost continuously since the age of six but I had never been so excited about an idea before. 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."

Publishing History✓

After rejected by eight publisher Harry Potter was published by two publishers  Bloomsbury & Scholastic Press. Bloomsbury offered Rowling a £2,500 advance for its 1st publication.


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