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Harry Potter y la Orden del Fénix
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J.K. Rowling
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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.
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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September 5, 2025
puede alguien borrarme todo lo que he leído para volver a hacerlo? gracias
bufffffff sin palabras, oro puro
bufffffff sin palabras, oro puro
February 26, 2024
Harry Potter y la Orden del Fénix, es hasta el momento, uno de los libros más tristes de la Saga.
Estaría de más mencionar el por qué, pero es necesario para hacer honor a su sacrificio:
El hecho de que Sirius Black muera en este libro, permite un giro más tétrico y serio a la saga, pues, a pesar del misterio y detalles que se revelan y que los personajes experimentan a lo largo del tiempo, es ahora que podemos experimentar la maldad del Señor Tenebroso y sus seguidores.
(Sin exceptuar, por supuesto, el asesinato de Cedric Diggory).
Sin embargo, el hecho de que fuese el padrino de Harry el que muere asesinado y además, la forma en la que sucede, nos regala una perspectiva más amplia, certera y cruda de la realidad que Harry Potter está por vivir.
La frase/momento favorito de este libro fue "pronunciada" por Hermione:
"Harry asintió con la cabeza. No encontraba palabras para explicarles lo que significaba para él verlos a todos allí en fila, expresándole su apoyo."
Cap. 38, pp. 920.
Sin dudarlo, 10/10
Estaría de más mencionar el por qué, pero es necesario para hacer honor a su sacrificio:
El hecho de que Sirius Black muera en este libro, permite un giro más tétrico y serio a la saga, pues, a pesar del misterio y detalles que se revelan y que los personajes experimentan a lo largo del tiempo, es ahora que podemos experimentar la maldad del Señor Tenebroso y sus seguidores.
(Sin exceptuar, por supuesto, el asesinato de Cedric Diggory).
Sin embargo, el hecho de que fuese el padrino de Harry el que muere asesinado y además, la forma en la que sucede, nos regala una perspectiva más amplia, certera y cruda de la realidad que Harry Potter está por vivir.
La frase/momento favorito de este libro fue "pronunciada" por Hermione:
"Harry asintió con la cabeza. No encontraba palabras para explicarles lo que significaba para él verlos a todos allí en fila, expresándole su apoyo."
Cap. 38, pp. 920.
Sin dudarlo, 10/10
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March 23, 2024
Este libro se llevó todo mi corazón, solo porque es Harry Potter para mí tiene 5 ⭐ lo amo con todo mi corazón apesar que es el libro más largo de todos para nada se hace tedioso leerlo dan la información necesaria y hay una muerte por ahí que me ha dejado llorando todo el dia, pero es genial la verdad lo recomiendo mucho.
November 23, 2025
It's been good for me to immerse in the Spanish with these. 32 hours though -- and I'm unable to catch things if I speed it up, so it feels LONG.
Oh yeah! Super fun, I think in chapter 20. Hagrid is talking to Harry and Ron about giants and mentions there being six or seven of them. Ron responds, "Seis!? o siete?!" I laughed out loud and shared it with my family at dinner. :)
Oh yeah! Super fun, I think in chapter 20. Hagrid is talking to Harry and Ron about giants and mentions there being six or seven of them. Ron responds, "Seis!? o siete?!" I laughed out loud and shared it with my family at dinner. :)
March 3, 2025
Uno de los mejores libros de la saga, aunando misterio, aventura y muchísimo drama.
Libro más que clave en la historia de Harry Potter, con momentos que te dejan completamente helado (y triste).
Absolutamente literatura.
Libro más que clave en la historia de Harry Potter, con momentos que te dejan completamente helado (y triste).
Absolutamente literatura.
October 23, 2025
Tan necesaria esa re lectura ❤️🩹
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