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From the Wizarding Archive
Series · 3 books · 2017-2024

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From the Wizarding Archive (Volume 1)

Curated Writing from the World of Harry Potter

2024

If you've ever wondered what happened when Vernon Dursley first met James Potter, wanted to know more about the magical properties of wand cores or pondered whether the Malfoys were always wealthy and firmly anti-Muggle - then From the Wizarding Archive (Volume 1) should go straight to the top of your must-read list. Containing 45 articles written by J.K. Rowling for the original Pottermore website, Harry PotterTM fans everywhere are in for a treat. If there's one thing Harry Potter fans have in common (apart from impeccably good taste), it's questions... so many questions. How do the Hogwarts staff know where every magical child lives, and are mistakes ever made when sending out admittance letters? Why don't wizards just use phones? From the history of wizarding schools to background on magical transportation - this is a veritable treasure trove of answers. With editorial writing linking and exploring the articles in greater depth than ever before, plus an exclusive foreword by Evanna Lynch, this is essential reading for any Harry Potter afficionado. These articles were originally featured on Pottermore and are still free, and available to read in English, on the official Wizarding World website. This eBook is available as two separate volumes or as a combined edition. The articles in Volume 2 were previously published as three Pottermore Presents eBooks. If you already own those, you might prefer to read this edition, From the Wizarding Archive (Volume 1), instead of the combined eBook. Pottermore Limited will be donating author royalties to the Lumos Foundation on behalf of J.K. Rowling, expected to be equivalent to a minimum of £1 (or the local currency equivalent) for each copy of From the Wizarding Archive sold. The Lumos Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales with charity number 1112575.
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The Hogwarts Collection

2017

The Hogwarts Collection gathers together three Pottermore Presents volumes. Rediscover the stories of Remus Lupin and Minerva McGonagall in Heroism, Hardship and Dangerous Hobbies; delve into Horace Slughorn's early years in Power, Politics and Pesky Poltergeists; and venture into the Hogwarts grounds in Hogwarts: An Incomplete and Unreliable Guide.
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Aus dem Zaubererarchiv

Ausgewählte Texte aus der Welt von Harry Potter

2024

Falls du dich je gefragt hast, warum Squibs niemals einen Platz in Hogwarts erhalten, was eigentlich passiert ist, als Vernon Dursley und James Potter sich das erste Mal getroffen haben, oder wie die lebenslange Freundschaft zwischen Dumbledore und McGonagall entstanden ist, dann sollte Aus dem Zaubererarchiv ganz oben auf deiner Lese-Wunschliste stehen! Es enthält 80 Artikel und Anekdoten, die J.K. Rowling für die Original-Pottermore-Website geschrieben hat. Ein wahres Fest für die Harry PotterTM-Fangemeinde! Wenn es eines gibt, was die Harry Potter-Fans (neben dem offensichtlich guten Geschmack) eint, dann sind es Fragen, so viele Fragen. Von einzelnen Details, die uns alle umtreiben, wie die Frage, ob Dolores Umbridge immer schon so böse war oder warum Zauberer eigentlich kein Telefon benutzen, bis hin zu persönlichen Details die uns den Prozess des Schreibens von J.K. Rowling näherbringen - von dem Fach in der Schule, das sie am meisten gehasst hat und dessen Auswirkungen auf Professor Snipes Karriere, bis hin zu der persönlichen Bedeutung von King's Cross und warum der Hogwarts Express immer ausgerechnet von dort abfährt - steht euch jetzt endlich eine wahre Schatztruhe voller Antworten zur Verfügung. Mit seinen redaktionellen Beiträgen, die die einzelnen Artikel miteinander verknüpfen und mehr denn je vertiefen, sowie einem exklusiven Vorwort von Evanna Lynch ist dieses Buch ein absolutes Harry Potter-Fan. Diese Artikel wurden ursprünglich auf pottermore.com veröffentlicht und stehen immer noch (in englischer Sprache) auf der offiziellen Harry Potter-Website kostenlos zur Verfügung.

Author

J.K. Rowling
J.K. Rowling
Author · 96 books

See also: Robert Galbraith Although she writes under the pen name J.K. Rowling, pronounced like rolling, her name when her first Harry Potter book was published was simply Joanne Rowling. Anticipating that the target audience of young boys might not want to read a book written by a woman, her publishers demanded that she use two initials, rather than her full name. As she had no middle name, she chose K as the second initial of her pen name, from her paternal grandmother Kathleen Ada Bulgen Rowling. She calls herself Jo and has said, "No one ever called me 'Joanne' when I was young, unless they were angry." Following her marriage, she has sometimes used the name Joanne Murray when conducting personal business. During the Leveson Inquiry she gave evidence under the name of Joanne Kathleen Rowling. In a 2012 interview, Rowling noted that she no longer cared that people pronounced her name incorrectly. Rowling was born to Peter James Rowling, a Rolls-Royce aircraft engineer, and Anne Rowling (née Volant), on 31 July 1965 in Yate, Gloucestershire, England, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Bristol. Her mother Anne was half-French and half-Scottish. Her parents first met on a train departing from King's Cross Station bound for Arbroath in 1964. They married on 14 March 1965. Her mother's maternal grandfather, Dugald Campbell, was born in Lamlash on the Isle of Arran. Her mother's paternal grandfather, Louis Volant, was awarded the Croix de Guerre for exceptional bravery in defending the village of Courcelles-le-Comte during the First World War. Rowling's sister Dianne was born at their home when Rowling was 23 months old. The family moved to the nearby village Winterbourne when Rowling was four. She attended St Michael's Primary School, a school founded by abolitionist William Wilberforce and education reformer Hannah More. Her headmaster at St Michael's, Alfred Dunn, has been suggested as the inspiration for the Harry Potter headmaster Albus Dumbledore. As a child, Rowling often wrote fantasy stories, which she would usually then read to her sister. She recalls that: "I can still remember me telling her a story in which she fell down a rabbit hole and was fed strawberries by the rabbit family inside it. Certainly the first story I ever wrote down (when I was five or six) was about a rabbit called Rabbit. He got the measles and was visited by his friends, including a giant bee called Miss Bee." At the age of nine, Rowling moved to Church Cottage in the Gloucestershire village of Tutshill, close to Chepstow, Wales. When she was a young teenager, her great aunt, who Rowling said "taught classics and approved of a thirst for knowledge, even of a questionable kind," gave her a very old copy of Jessica Mitford's autobiography, Hons and Rebels. Mitford became Rowling's heroine, and Rowling subsequently read all of her books. Rowling has said of her teenage years, in an interview with The New Yorker, "I wasn’t particularly happy. I think it’s a dreadful time of life." She had a difficult homelife; her mother was ill and she had a difficult relationship with her father (she is no longer on speaking terms with him). She attended secondary school at Wyedean School and College, where her mother had worked as a technician in the science department. Rowling said of her adolescence, "Hermione [a bookish, know-it-all Harry Potter character] is loosely based on me. She's a caricature of me when I was eleven, which I'm not particularly proud of." Steve Eddy, who taught Rowling English when she first arrived, remembers her as "not exceptional" but "one of a group of girls who were bright, and quite good at English." Sean Harris, her best friend in the Upper Sixth owned a turquoise Ford Anglia, which she says inspired the one in her books.

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