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Harry Potter e o Cálice de Fogo
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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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November 24, 2025
espero que meu amigo pessoal cedric diggory esteja feliz no mundo dos justos... 😭
September 23, 2025
VAI PIORAR
Sendo bem sincera, o começo do livro é muito paradinho (não foi um problema pra mim mas pode ser para outras pessoas) depois vai melhorando, eu prometo!
Enfim, esse livro me surpreendeu muito, também serviu para esclarecer e acrescentar várias coisas que eu não sabia ou nem tinha percebido (quando assisti o filme). Gostei muito de como tudo começa bem e depois vai surgindo uma névoa de suspense e cada vez a atmosfera da leitura se torna mais sombria e melancólica. Aqueles últimos capítulos então… Foi muito triste ver o Harry passar por tudo aquilo sozinho.
Infelizmente suavizaram muito essa atmosfera sombria e mais séria nos filmes, é uma pena!
Uma coisa que me deixou realmente chateada é como o filme( que adaptou a história desse livro) é incrivelmente paia kkkk de verdade, ler ao livro me fez perceber como o filme falha em ser uma boa adaptação. Foram tantas partes e personagens importantíssimos cortados da história. Mas ainda tenho um grande apego emocional com o filme.
Ah e LEMBREM-SE DE CEDRICO DIGGORY 🧡💛🖤
Eu teria devorado o livro mas parece que o universo conspirou contra 😭
Sendo bem sincera, o começo do livro é muito paradinho (não foi um problema pra mim mas pode ser para outras pessoas) depois vai melhorando, eu prometo!
Enfim, esse livro me surpreendeu muito, também serviu para esclarecer e acrescentar várias coisas que eu não sabia ou nem tinha percebido (quando assisti o filme). Gostei muito de como tudo começa bem e depois vai surgindo uma névoa de suspense e cada vez a atmosfera da leitura se torna mais sombria e melancólica. Aqueles últimos capítulos então… Foi muito triste ver o Harry passar por tudo aquilo sozinho.
Infelizmente suavizaram muito essa atmosfera sombria e mais séria nos filmes, é uma pena!
Uma coisa que me deixou realmente chateada é como o filme( que adaptou a história desse livro) é incrivelmente paia kkkk de verdade, ler ao livro me fez perceber como o filme falha em ser uma boa adaptação. Foram tantas partes e personagens importantíssimos cortados da história. Mas ainda tenho um grande apego emocional com o filme.
Ah e LEMBREM-SE DE CEDRICO DIGGORY 🧡💛🖤
Eu teria devorado o livro mas parece que o universo conspirou contra 😭
January 13, 2025
Unlike the author, the book does not disappoint.
I didn't want to review the book, it bothers me to give that woman any credit, but the challenges call for a review to be done, and the book is actually good.
For me it's not the best in the series.
Even though it has a competition plot, it's still a not very busy story, in my opinion.
The ending is very good, as everything happened for Harry to reach the fateful moment.
It far surpasses the film.
I didn't want to review the book, it bothers me to give that woman any credit, but the challenges call for a review to be done, and the book is actually good.
For me it's not the best in the series.
Even though it has a competition plot, it's still a not very busy story, in my opinion.
The ending is very good, as everything happened for Harry to reach the fateful moment.
It far surpasses the film.
December 16, 2025
O Cálice de Fogo é o ponto de virada definitivo. Com o Torneio Tribruxo, o universo expande-se para outras escolas de magia, mas é o final que muda tudo.
O regresso físico de Voldemort marca o fim da inocência. É um livro denso, cheio de ação, bailes adolescentes e a primeira grande tragédia que nos prepara para a guerra que está por vir. Leitura eletrizante.
O regresso físico de Voldemort marca o fim da inocência. É um livro denso, cheio de ação, bailes adolescentes e a primeira grande tragédia que nos prepara para a guerra que está por vir. Leitura eletrizante.
August 3, 2025
MUUUUUUUITO BOM!!! UM DOS MELHORES LIVROS DA SAGA E MEU FAV! Os mistérios, descobertas e plot twist a td tempo foram de morrer por! Eu amei essa dinâmica! Irei dar 5 estrelas como tds os outros livros, mas esse livro vale 10⭐️!
March 1, 2025
Muuuito bom, o final tem um plot twist SENSACIONAL
May 10, 2025
CINEMA VSF TEM MT MAIS DETALHES Q NO FILME
December 29, 2025
depressão
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