The main theme of the series, according to Rowling, is death however, the story also focuses on friendship, right versus wrong, prejudice, corruption, and much more.Īfter being turned down by one agent, the manuscript was then accepted by the Christopher Little Agency. The story focuses on Harry’s quest to defeat the evilest wizard of all time, Lord Voldemort, who killed his parents when Harry was only one year old. I began to write ‘Philosopher’s Stone’ that very evening, although those first few pages bear no resemblance to anything in the finished book. Perhaps, if I had slowed down the ideas to capture them on paper, I might have stifled some of them (although sometimes I do wonder, idly, how much of what I imagined on that journey I had forgotten by the time I actually got my hands on a pen). I simply sat and thought, for four (delayed train) hours, while all the details bubbled up in my brain, and this scrawny, black-haired, bespectacled boy who didn’t know he was a wizard became more and more real to me. I did not have a functioning pen with me, but I do think that this was probably a good thing. To my immense frustration, I didn’t have a pen that worked, and I was too shy to ask anybody if I could borrow one… I had been writing almost continuously since the age of six but I had never been so excited about an idea before. After a weekend’s flat-hunting, I was traveling back to London on my own on a crowded train, and the idea for Harry Potter simply fell into my head. My then boyfriend and I had decided to move up to Manchester together. Cover and Collaborator Announced for Illustrated Edition of “Order of the Phoenix” from Jim Kay - Jim Kay has brought on friend and fellow artist Neil Packer as a "guest collaborator" for the massive illustrated edition of the fifth book.Pristine First Edition of “Philosopher’s Stone” Could Auction for Six-Figure Sum - Could this be the record-breaking copy of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone"?.Learn more about what makes these copies so interesting. Defaced First Edition of “Philosopher’s Stone” Among Rare “Potter” Books Auctioned by Hansons - Two rare "Harry Potter" books stood out at a recent auction in England.
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