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Harry Potter y el prisionero de Azkaban (Harry Potter [edición con la portada ilustrada por Johnny Duddle] 3): Edición con marcapáginas de regalo
384 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published July 16, 2026
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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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August 11, 2026
JAJAAJAJAJAJAJ literalmente el 60% del libro es Hermione y Ron peleándose por algo (su gato y su rata), osea me cague de risa.
Sinceramente creo que me da más bronca Snape que Draco a diferencia de los libros.
NONONONO Y EL MOMENTO EN QUE RON LA DEFIENDE EN POCIONES ES ÉPICO.
La tercera es mi película favorita asiq tenía las expectativas bastantes altas pero obviamente no decepcionó NADA. Lo bueno de haber visto las películas es que asocias todo el tiempo las imágenes con lo que estás leyendo y vuelve la lectura más ligera.
Siempre hay cosas que sin leer el libro no te enteras y me encantó resolver mini preguntas que me habían quedado pendientes hace mucho.
ABSOLUTE CINEMA. Veremos el cáliz de fuego.
Sinceramente creo que me da más bronca Snape que Draco a diferencia de los libros.
NONONONO Y EL MOMENTO EN QUE RON LA DEFIENDE EN POCIONES ES ÉPICO.
La tercera es mi película favorita asiq tenía las expectativas bastantes altas pero obviamente no decepcionó NADA. Lo bueno de haber visto las películas es que asocias todo el tiempo las imágenes con lo que estás leyendo y vuelve la lectura más ligera.
Siempre hay cosas que sin leer el libro no te enteras y me encantó resolver mini preguntas que me habían quedado pendientes hace mucho.
ABSOLUTE CINEMA. Veremos el cáliz de fuego.
July 20, 2026
Me encanta Harry Potter y he de admitir que este es mi favorito hasta el momento, tiene una historia bien construida con incógnitas y noticias que al final se explican, aclaran y resuelven con una narrativa muy entretenida. Es uno de mis libros favoritos y de los mejores giros de tramas que he leído (y también cuando ví la película me encantó).
No le doy más estrellas porque la aplicación no me lo permite. Por último, aquí les dejo una de mis frases favoritas:
- Si eres mejor como rata que como hombre, no tienes mucho de lo que alardear.
No le doy más estrellas porque la aplicación no me lo permite. Por último, aquí les dejo una de mis frases favoritas:
- Si eres mejor como rata que como hombre, no tienes mucho de lo que alardear.
Review of advance copy received from Editor
Aqui si que se pone seria la cosa empieza este cambio en el guión que me encanta.
July 28, 2026
ES EL MEJOR LIBRO QUE LEÍ EN TODA MI PUTA VIDA!!!-&-&-&-@
muchos plot twist y encima los niños dejan de serlo y empiezan a ponerse más grandes 😭
me encantó lo mejor que leí en mi vida chau
muchos plot twist y encima los niños dejan de serlo y empiezan a ponerse más grandes 😭
me encantó lo mejor que leí en mi vida chau
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