Harry fights Voldemort several times while at school as the wizard tries to regain a physical form. He also meets Professor Severus Snape, who dislikes and bullies him. He befriends fellow students Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger and is mentored by the school's headmaster, Albus Dumbledore. In The Philosopher's Stone, Harry re-enters the wizarding world at age 11 and enrols in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As an orphan, Harry was placed in the care of his Muggle (non-magical) relatives Petunia Dursley and Vernon Dursley, with their son Dudley Dursley. The curse was cast by Tom Riddle, better known as Lord Voldemort, an evil wizard who murdered Harry's parents and attempted to kill Harry as a baby, due to a prophecy which claimed Harry would be able to stop him. Throughout the six previous novels, Harry Potter has struggled with the difficulties of adolescence along with being famous as the only person ever to survive the Killing Curse. Rowling has referred to the play as 'the eighth Harry Potter story', and is set nineteen years after the events of the Deathly Hallows, effectively picking up where the epilogue of the seventh book ended.Ī film adaptation of the novel was released in two parts: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 in November 2010 and Part 2 in July 2011. Rowling, John Tiffany, and Thorne, premiering at the Palace Theatre in London on 30 July 2016. A play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, was written by Jack Thorne, and based on an original story written by J. Reception to the book was generally positive, and the book won the 2008 Colorado Blue Spruce Book Award, and the American Library Association named it the 'Best Book for Young Adults'. It holds the Guinness World Record for most novels sold within 24 hours of release, with 8.3 million sold in the US and 2.65 million in the UK. The novel chronicles the events directly following Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2005) and the final confrontation between the wizards Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort.ĭeathly Hallows shattered sales records upon release, surpassing marks set by previous titles of the Harry Potter series.

It was released on 21 July 2007 in the United Kingdom by Bloomsbury Publishing, in the United States by Scholastic, and in Canada by Raincoast Books. Rowling and the seventh and final novel in the Harry Potter series. All rights reserved.Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is a fantasy novel written by British author J. (The-CNN-Wire & 2019 Cable News Network, Inc., a Time Warner Company.

Last year, Rowling's Pottermore website announced that more than 500 million Potter books have been sold in 80 different languages.

'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' - or the Sorcerer's Stone, as it's known in the United States - was the first of seven novels in the series. The word philosopher is misspelled on the back cover and Harry's list of required school supplies includes '1 wand' twice.īonhams said the book sold for $90,074 ( 68,812), so the new owner may want to take it to Gringotts Bank for safekeeping. The book also has a couple of typos that make it even more unique. It's one of about 500 copies that exists, according to the Bonhams auction house, and it once belonged to J.K. The book was a first edition, first impression of the novel that introduced muggles to Harry, Hermione, Ron and the rest of the Hogwarts gang in 1997. on March 31, 2019.Ī London auction house has sold a copy of 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' for almost $100,000 - but before you start ransacking your bookshelf in hopes of getting a huge stack of galleons, you should know this book was pretty rare. Walter Perez has more on Action News at 5 p.m. A rare Harry Potter book just sold for almost $100,000.

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