British author J. K. Rowling did not deliberately name the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry from her Harry Potter series of books after the hogwort.
J. K. Rowling, Neil Gaiman and Lauren Child have cited the work as being a favourite book of theirs.
The Harry Potter prequel is an 800-word, untitled short story written by J. K. Rowling in 2008 as part of a charity auction event, for which it fetched £25,000.
In April 2011, Montgomery completed filming a television biographical film Magic Beyond Words, playing Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling.
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The imprint is most notable as the publisher for the American editions of the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling.
J.K. Rowling wrote the newsletters for the Harry Potter Fan Club in 1998 and 1999, depicting excerpts from issues of the in-universe wizarding newspaper The Daily Prophet.
Book of Potions (or Wonderbook: Book of Potions) is a 2013 augmented reality video game developed by SCE London Studio in conjunction with J. K. Rowling as a companion to the Harry Potter series and as a followup to the Wonderbook's debut title, Book of Spells.
A former first floor café on the corner with Nicolson Street is reputedly where J. K. Rowling began writing the Harry Potter series.
With the success of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter, it has been revealed that she may be his great-granddaughter.
J. K. Rowling, the creator of Harry Potter, has recalled that The Little White Horse was her favourite book as a child.
With the help of partners, the Wizard Rock community, Maureen Johnson, John and Hank Green, the HPA auctioned over 100 items including the Harry Potter books and a thank you card donated by J. K. Rowling.
From October 2006 to October 2007, Runcie spent a year filming J.K. Rowling: A Year in the Life for ITV, as the author was completing the final novel in the Harry Potter cycle, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
Macrocarpaea apparata Named for the verb to apparate, made popular in the book Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling (1998)
It is based on the book J.K. Rowling A Biography, by Sean Smith, detailing the journey of struggling single mother J. K. Rowling, her bid to become a published author, and her rise to fame that followed the publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
She is the author of the New York Times bestseller Harry, A History, which chronicles the Harry Potter phenomenon with exclusive interview material and a foreword written by Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling.
Among more recent authors, A. J. Cronin, Lemony Snicket, A. F. Coniglio, Roald Dahl, J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, as well as some less well-known authors of famous orphans like Little Orphan Annie have used orphans as major characters.
Examples include Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling, and The Sorceress: The Secrets Of The Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott in which Perenelle is a main character.
Authors from outside France who have won the prize include Anthony Browne, Anne Fine, Michael Morpurgo and J. K. Rowling.
Suzie Toase or Suzanne Toase is a British actress who is possibly best known for her role as Alecto Carrow in the film adaptations of J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 and Part 2.
The Make A Child Smile Appeal has been supported by Donald Trump, Bill Gates and J.K. Rowling.
J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, has stated in an interview that her short story "The Tale of the Three Brothers" from The Tales of Beedle the Bard is loosely based on "The Pardoner's Tale".
Since the 1997 publication (and subsequent success) of the first book in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, fans of The Books of Magic have noted some similarities between the two protagonists: both are normal, bespectacled teenage boys who have lost their mothers, and discover that they are destined to become powerful magicians while gaining an owl as a pet.
Author J.K. Rowling used the word in the third installment of her Harry Potter novel, The Prisoner of Azkaban leading to a growing use of the otherwise seldom heard term.
Albus Dumbledore, a character from J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the first novel in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the fifth novel in the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling