


To accompany the series, she wrote three short companion volumes for charity, including Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which went on to inspire a new series of films featuring Magizoologist Newt Scamander. ROWLING is the author of the enduringly popular, era-defining Harry Potter seven-book series, which have sold over 600 million copies in 85 languages, been listened to as audiobooks for over one billion hours and made into eight smash hit movies. GrandPré lives in Sarasota, Florida, with her family.J.K. Her work has also appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly, and the Wall Street Journal, and her paintings and pastels have been shown in galleries across the United States. Mary GrandPré has illustrated more than twenty beautiful books, including The Noisy Paint Box by Barb Rosenstock, which received a Caldecott Honor Cleonardo, the Little Inventor, of which she is also the author and the original American editions of all seven Harry Potter novels. Rowling wanted to be a writer, and is at her happiest in a room, making things up. She supports a wide number of humanitarian causes through her charitable trust Volant, and is the founder of the children’s care reform charity Lumos.For as long as she can remember, J.K. Rowling has received many awards and honors for her writing, including for her detective series written under the name Robert Galbraith.

Rowling wrote with playwright Jack Thorne and director John Tiffany.In 2020, she returned to publishing for younger children with the fairy tale The Ickabog, which she initially published for free online for children in lockdown, later donating all her book royalties to help vulnerable groups affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.J.K. Harry’s story as a grown-up was later continued in a stage play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which J.K. She also wrote three short series companion volumes for charity, including Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which later became the inspiration for a new series of films. Rowling is the author of the seven Harry Potter books, which have sold over 500 million copies, been translated into over 80 languages, and made into eight blockbuster films. Classes are never straightforward, though Harry receives some extraordinary help from the mysterious Half-Blood Prince.

Teenagers flirt and fight and fall in love. Sixth-year students learn to Apparate - and lose a few eyebrows in the process. Dumbledore is absent from Hogwarts for long stretches of time, and the Order of the Phoenix has already suffered losses. Ron scans the obituary pages of the Daily Prophet, looking for familiar names. The war against Voldemort is not going well even Muggle governments are noticing.
