AN: Just something I really thought some of you might want to know. I don't mean to cause any controversy. I just read it myself and it caused myself to wake up. Just thought you guys might want to inform yourselves like I did.
3 The Harry Potter Story
It
all began on an apparently uneventful day as Rowling was traveling by
train. Suddenlylike a revelation out of nowhereshe saw
"very, very clearly" the crystal clear image of Harry as it
popped into her mind. "The character of Harry just strolled into my
head… I really did feel he was someone who walked up and introduced
himself in my mind's eye." 3 She saw an odd-looking
black-haired boy, on the homely side, with big spectacles. Somehow
she understood he was a wizard who didn't know he was wizard. After
pondering the idea, Rowling soon began writing what was destined to
become "the most popular children's series ever written." 4
Harry Potter books are a highly imaginative,
can't-put-it-down sequence of fantasy novels chronicling the
adventures of an orphan boy named Harry whose parents (a wizard and a
witch) were brutally murdered by "the greatest dark sorcerer of all
time, Lord Voldemort," 5 when Harry was one year old.
The King of the Dark Arts tried to kill baby Harry, too, but somehow
the toddler survived as a result of his mother's love. His only
wound was a lightning-shaped scar on his forehead. The death-curse
Voldemort cast upon Harry unexplainably rebounded back on himself,
stripping him of his powers, before he vanished into thin air
.
Shortly after the horrible death of Harry's parents (who were
much-loved in the wizard world), Albus Dumbledore, the Headmaster of
the prestigious 1000-year-old Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and
Wizardry, leaves baby Harry inside a basket on the doorstep of his
non-magical relatives the Dursley family with a note in
the child's hand explaining what happened. Reluctantly, the
Dursleys raise the boy but withhold the contents of the letter.
On Harry's eleventh birthday (after a simply awful childhood during which he was forced to sleep in a cupboard under the stairs), the Dursley family is unexpectedly visited by Hagrid, the Keeper of the Keys at Hogwarts, who is sent by Headmaster Dumbledore to prepare the boy for his first semester at wizard school. To Harry's utter amazement, Hagrid tells him he is a wizard and is even famous throughout the world of witches and sorcerers because he is the only one to have ever survived an assault from "He-Who-Cannot-Be-Named." Happily packing his bags, Harry heads to Hogwarts.
Thus the plot is laid, and it intensifies with each sequential book and high-budget film. Around the globe, on every continent, millions of young readers can hardly wait for the next book as the captivating drama not only follows the development of Harry's magical abilities but moves steadily toward some sort of on-the-edge-of-your-seat, blood-curdling showdown between Harry Potter and Mr. Blackness himself who is determined to regain his power, finish Harry off, and rule over the entire wizard world.