Chapter I. Joanne k. Rowling the creator of harry potter

CHAPTER II. SIGNS OF FANTASY AND LITERARY TALE IN THE NOVEL J. ROWLING "HARRY POTTER"

2.1. Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix

A perfect closure to the best possible fantasy of all times, Harry Potter and Book 7 The Deathly Hallows by J K Rowling is one hell of a send-off to the boy who lived and how! There is adventure, magic, emotion, love and most important of all faith in love and its sheer power. So much has been rolled into this one that I am personally not at all surprised that when it came to making it into a movie, it had to be converted into 2 parts. A colosseum of infinite stature, the final in the series depicts much more than what meets the eye, leaving so much more in the manner of a takeaway to its readers after they finish reading this one.¹⁰
I think it is not wrong if I were to state that as far as Harry Potter and the story behind the Boy Who Lived, The Chosen One is concerned, it is now much more than a cult, a part of our waking, living lives, the characters having seeped past the sinews into the marrow of our thought processes, becoming a part of us for infinity. It has been such a fabulous journey, reading about Harry and Hogwarts, living through each and every instance, facing every challenge alongside Harry, Ron and Hermione, facing the devil himself in the form of Voldemort and most importantly the value of love, courage, bravery and sheer valour which has been portrayed through this enigmatic finale.
Incorporating each and every element a fantasy lover can ask for in this final one in the series of 7 books, here as both the Muggles non-magical people as well as the wizarding world collide, it is pure magic that Rowling has managed to splay on a canvas which already has so much on it, not painted but carved yes, that is how it is in our mind’s eye, the HP universe I mean and that too in a manner which shall stay with us until the end of time. 
It has been beyond a rigmarole, this journey through the 7 books. I have been jubilant alongside Harry, cherishing that “moment” when he first discovered he was a wizard in the first whilst him facing and conquering the Basilisk in the second one was no short of “mission extraordinaire” accomplished for me alongside Harry as well. Discovering Sirius being his “Godfather” a parent figure couldn’t have given me greater joy and yet I myself have cowered alongside Harry whilst he faced the Dementors. Were it not for Professor Lupin’s mentorship and guidance, Harry wouldn’t have crossed this obstacle either.
If you ask me personally, Harry Potter series 4 and 5 were my favourites. Reason? Man, I have lived through the Quidditch match between Bulgaria and Ireland, cheering “Troy, Mullet and Moran” and witnessing Krum grab that snitch (those Omnioculars, someone gets them to me too please ya!). The 3 Triwizard tournament tasks were equally exciting. Facing that Hungarian horntail was as intimidating as fighting Merpeople. Not to mention the maze and its obstacles, with umm, “surprises” at every juncture. A suppa read.
Ah, now that was epic. No, seriously, Umbridge would have surely given a run for money to Voldemort and his evil idiosyncrasies had she wanted to. Wanting to disrupt peace and life not only at Hogwarts but having much more sinister ideas at the back of her head she was even worse than Quirrell with Voldemort sticking out of the back of his head in book 1 she was a character I loved to loathe and how! 
This book was the transitional point, the plot becoming more mature, and murkier as we proceed alongside Harry, now losing a beloved one persistently in one way or the other yes indeed it was heartbreaking seeing Harry in so much pain. Plus, it did not seem to help matters either that he had to graduate to now accompany Dumbledore in the tryst for defeating Voldemort and finding and destroying Horcruxes. The idea of Horcruxes itself was something I’d say so enigmatic that it kept me in awe.
Well finally, I must admit that the amount of action, emotion, drama, and feeling as well as the number of elements in this one made this perhaps one of the most fulfilling pieces of fantasy ever written for a finale. As we begin this one, we realize that even a friendship as solid as our favourite trio shares, such a relationship too, is put to trial thanks to misunderstandings and pangs of jealousy, and mistrust. Well, that done we proceed to a surprising routine, no Hogwarts to return to or school to resume for these 3, courtesy of finishing the unfinished task of finding and destroying the Horcruxes. Added on, the story of the Hallows aka the 3 most powerful magical objects, acquiring the 3, which as the folklore has it, will make the acquirer Master of Death.
As Harry contemplates and makes the choice between whether to go towards Horcruxes first or pursue the fascinating angle of the hallows things culminate into a battle which can be only won with something beyond magic and weapons. Will he succeed or not, whether he will vanquish in the melee is what forms the climax and core. No wait, actually the climax as well as the anti-climax in this one was a complete blowout of sorts, a coming-of-age musing of sorts if you ask me. The rendezvous between Dumbledore and Harry after Voldemort casts Avada Kedavra and Harry falls down, slipping back into the chasms of his own mind was something spiritual, something uncannily wholistic I’d say.¹¹
Yes, sometimes we surely do that don’t we, getting into the lanes of our own mind, speaking with the one we want to, braving ourselves to be baring it all to our own souls, having a tete-a-tete with our conscience, our benefactors too, trying to figure a way out from the eye of the storm. It was refreshing, and rejuvenating to see the camaraderie between him and Harry, understanding and decoding the emotion behind the story, the vital take away-Love can conquer mountains and fill the darkest of valleys possible. Yes, unattainable becomes possible with bravery, courage and a demeanour which is truthful. Yes, truth alone survives while evil shall vanquish into oblivion.
The closure given to the story, the full circle was Magnifique. One word for the series-phenomenally fantabulous. Each and every character was created, developed, built and then matured and given the send-off in a manner regale’.
At the age of six, Joanne Kathleen Rowling wrote her first short story about a rabbit named Rabbit, who had the measles and was visited by his friends. Amongst them was a little bee called Miss Bee.
However, she never told anyone about her “burning ambition” to become a writer, not even Ms Shephard, her English teacher at Wyedean Comprehensive School. Ms Shephard was a great influence on young Joanne as “she inspired trust”. Shephard’s comments on Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone“meant more to than any newspaper reviews”.
After finishing secondary school and her studies in French and Classics at Exeter University, Joanne Rowling started to work as a research asssistant at Amnesty International which was a “very, very interesting place to work”, but at the same time a huge mistake, because Joanne Rowling admits that as a secretary she would be anybody’s “worst nightmare”.
It was during a delayed train journey from Manchester to King’s Cross Station in London, when she was obviously hit by magic. The story about a little orphan named Harry Potter, who has to live with his old-fashioned relatives and finds out that he is a wizard, came to her mind. And because she had no pen or notebook with her, she had to think it. So, Hogwarts - School of Witchcraft and Wizardry came to life in her imagination, and as she invented it, it “felt like research”. “It was a question of discovery why Harry was where he was, why his parents were dead”. At the end of the journey she knew “it was going to be a seven-book series”.
The next five years, while she moved to Portugal, got married, had a baby, got divorced and moved back to Britain, she continued writing the first book of the series Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone which she finished in 1995.
One year and many rejections later, Joanne Rowling’s novel was accepted by the small London-based publishing company Bloomsbury. From that time on Joanne Rowling’s life changed rapidly. The Scottish Arts Council donated to her for writing her second novel Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was published in a first edition of 500 copies and was “selling surprisingly well”. Only three months later, the US-American company Scholastic bought the rights for the US market in an auction for Joanne Rowling was shocked by the sudden “burst of publicity”, she “felt frozen by all the attention”.
The following year, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets was published, with 10.150 copies printed in the UK, and went straight to the top of the best-seller lists, where it has been joined later by the third book Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban the following year, and the fourth book Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire the year after.
By that time the Harry Potter Series has already become an international phenomenon. It has been published in 115 countries, and translated into 25 languages.
It seems that every book in the series establishes new records only to be broken by the next book in the series. What once started with 500 copies of the first book reached its latest climax with the publication of the fifth book Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in June 2003 with 8.5 million copies printed. About 200 million copies of the five books have been sold worldwide.¹²
If the Harry Potter series belongs to the circle of fairy tales, the life of Joanne Kathleen Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter books, certainly belongs to it, too.
It starts with a little girl, born in Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England, who “always, always wanted to be a writer” and it ends with a woman.
One of the facts that probably helped to sell the books is the so-called Rowling legend. It is a moving story about a poor young divorced mother who writes a children’s book at a coffee house table and suddenly becomes rich and famous overnight – a great myth-making detail which publishers readily exploit in order to arouse the public’s interest. As far as the German market is concerned, the method worked. When the German publishing company Carlsen started to publish Harry Potter und der Stein der Weise in November 1998 it was not as successful as and HP2 were in the English-speaking world. It was not until the media started to report about the dismal life Joanne was forced to live before she became famous – she was presented as a poorer than she actually was – that the books started to sell well in Germany.
Part of the legend is that Joanne Rowling had to go to local coffee shops to write her book, because she could not afford to pay for the heating of her apartment.
Not only Joanne is often compared to the fabulous Cinderella, but also Harry.
In the first chapters of, the reader learns how Harry’s life had been before his eleventh birthday until he received the letter from Hogwarts - School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Harry Potter. It is hard to imagine that someone had heard nothing about it. Has no idea about the book or the movie. On the contrary, this novel Joanne Kathleen Rowling filled book shelves and the hearts of the people.
Statistics 1996 showed that people and especially children stopped reading. Read only books that pupils have studied or in the case of youth and adult books that are needed for work and study. After "Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone" in 1997 was published, the statistics significantly decreased, children began to read. And not only they, Harry Potter has become an epoch, adults are also fans of this fantasy - literary fairy tale. Series of novels includes seven books that have become bestseller.
Genre, historically established tradition certified and thus inherited the collection of certain themes and motifs that are assigned to a particular art form, connecting them to each other recognizable feelings and thoughts. The concept genre implies continuity of perception: the reader, finding work in this or that particular scene, the scene, the characters' behavior, relates it to any genre known to him, remembering old and learning a new familiar. In addition to sustainability and equity himself category genre has the opposite feature: it historically mobile, as well as the whole scale of artistic values. The boundaries separating literature from non-literature, as the boundary between the genre of genre, volatile, and the era of relative stability poetic systems alternate with periods decanonization to listeners. Any genre can borrow the specific features of other genres and significantly change its structure and appearance.
Fantasy - kind of fiction, based on the use of mythological and fairy-tale motifs. In modern form emerged in the early XX century. Great influence on shaping the face fantasy had John Ronald Ruel Tolkien, what is sometimes referred to as the Father of fantasy. Fantasy literature often resemble historical adventure novel, which takes place in a fictional world, close to real Middle Ages, whose heroes are faced with supernatural phenomena and beings. Often fantasy built on archetypal stories.
Fantasy usually include general term "fiction", there also includes science fiction and other genres and trends. Question the relationship between science fiction and fantasy is not resolved until now.¹³
On the one hand, and then, and more combined into a single concept of "fiction" and is perceived as its modification. On the other hand, fantasy clearly opposed to that literature which conventionally designated "science fiction." Western researchers, and in recent years the majority of domestic and perceive fantasy as a special genre, separating it from the literature of dreams, literature horror, literary tales, mysticism.
Unlike science fiction, fantasy does not seek to explain the world in which the action occurs works, from the point of view of science. The world exists in the form of a certain assumptions often its location relative to our reality does not discussed: whether it is a parallel world, or another planet, and its physical laws may differ from the realities of our world. In such a world can be real existence of the gods, magic, mythic creatures dragons, gnomes, trolls, ghosts and any other fantastic entities. At the same time, the fundamental distinction of "miracles" fantasy from their fabulous counterparts is that they are the norm described the world and work systematically, as the laws of nature.
Nowadays fantasy - it's also a genre in film, painting, computer and board games. Such genre versatility especially distinguishes fantasy with elements of Chinese martial arts.
A world that does not exist; it has properties that are not possible in our reality. For example, the sorcerers world, created by J.K. Rowling's " Harry Potter" - school of witchcraft and wizardry "Hogwarts", " Dragon Alley"; village of wizards.
Magic and folk characters as necessary. For example, will suit almost any product of fantasy.
Medieval ambiance, although there are possible options: Ancient World GL Oldie, "The hero must be one" where the action takes place in ancient Greece, modernity or future; This feature although there often, but not determinative.
Latent opposition of technology and magic in favor of the latter.
At the forefront of the characters, their actions and experiences, magical and fantastic plays a supporting, but not a secondary role.
Confrontation between good and evil as the main plot-rod "for fantasy required a struggle between good and evil - because this struggle, like a fairy tale, is epic structure." Fantasy is different from a fairy tale. Good and evil are equal in it, and in the tale good wins without a loss.
Presence the other world and its manifestations.
Complete freedom of the author: he can turn the plot in unexpected ways, as the magical world of fantasy suggests that it may all .. This last feature - one of the most important determinants. He clearly distinguishes fantasy and science fiction because science fiction describes probable, and constrained by certain limits. He is forced to explain the incredible, justify scientific or pseudoscientific which often happens.