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Published January 1, 2007
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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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January 30, 2020
Lo amo. Lo amo... Todo me encanta de este libro.. Me encanta formar parte del mundo de este mago q con el paso del tiempo se enfrenta a nuevos retos.
December 15, 2019
Español no es mi primer lenguaje asi ojalá que me perdone por mis errores.
Leí este libro en ingles hace muchos años y muchas veces cuando era niña; todavía me da tanta nostalgia cuando lo leo. Quién sea que lo tradujo, quiero agredecerle por su buen trabajo, porque el español es muy claro aun para mi, que no soy hispanohablante diariamente.
Para los que no lo hayan leído (¿¿existen??), este libro cuenta la historia del tercer año de Harry Potter en la escuela mágica Hogwarts, en la cual él conoce a un hombrelobo, evita (¡por un escaso margen!) que un árbol dementido le rompa, y tiene otros aventuras emocionantes. (Por cierto Harry aprende algo de la magía también, pero el libro no es un manual que se enseña como hacer hechizos).
A rough translation: Spanish isn't my first language, so hopefully you will pardon my errors.
I read this book many years ago and many times when I was a girl; I still feel nostalgic when I read it. Whoever translated it, I want to thank them for their good job, because the Spanish is very clear even for me, someone who doesn't speak Spanish daily.
For those who haven't read it (do they exist??), this book tells the story of Harry Potter's third year at the magical school Hogwarts, in which he meets/gets to know a werewolf, avoids (by slim margins) having a tree break him, and has other exciting adventures. (Of course, Harry learns something about magic as well, but the book isn't a manual to teach you spells).
Leí este libro en ingles hace muchos años y muchas veces cuando era niña; todavía me da tanta nostalgia cuando lo leo. Quién sea que lo tradujo, quiero agredecerle por su buen trabajo, porque el español es muy claro aun para mi, que no soy hispanohablante diariamente.
Para los que no lo hayan leído (¿¿existen??), este libro cuenta la historia del tercer año de Harry Potter en la escuela mágica Hogwarts, en la cual él conoce a un hombrelobo, evita (¡por un escaso margen!) que un árbol dementido le rompa, y tiene otros aventuras emocionantes. (Por cierto Harry aprende algo de la magía también, pero el libro no es un manual que se enseña como hacer hechizos).
A rough translation: Spanish isn't my first language, so hopefully you will pardon my errors.
I read this book many years ago and many times when I was a girl; I still feel nostalgic when I read it. Whoever translated it, I want to thank them for their good job, because the Spanish is very clear even for me, someone who doesn't speak Spanish daily.
For those who haven't read it (do they exist??), this book tells the story of Harry Potter's third year at the magical school Hogwarts, in which he meets/gets to know a werewolf, avoids (by slim margins) having a tree break him, and has other exciting adventures. (Of course, Harry learns something about magic as well, but the book isn't a manual to teach you spells).
March 26, 2018
Definitivamente el mejor de los tres (por ahora)
A diferencia de los otros libros, este comienza con el misterio desde el principio. Podemos ver cómo avanza, un poco lento, pero avanza hacia el final.
El único pero que le puedo poner a la saga (hasta ahora) es que todo el "nudo" es muy lento y, el final, se resuelve muy rápido. Aún así he disfrutado mucho este libro, me ha mantenido enganchada y no he podido saltarlo hasta acabarlo.
A diferencia de los otros libros, este comienza con el misterio desde el principio. Podemos ver cómo avanza, un poco lento, pero avanza hacia el final.
El único pero que le puedo poner a la saga (hasta ahora) es que todo el "nudo" es muy lento y, el final, se resuelve muy rápido. Aún así he disfrutado mucho este libro, me ha mantenido enganchada y no he podido saltarlo hasta acabarlo.
August 13, 2015
Ayyyyy hasta ahora es el mejor que he leído, Alfonso Cuarón hizo tan buen trabajo con la película que gracias a eso disfruté más el libro... Amo a SIRIUS lo amo, mi personaje favorito por mucho, da demasiada esperanza, el problema de ver las películas... Es que sé lo que me espera...
August 9, 2019
Para mi es el mejor de la serie. Es mi segunda lectura después de 10 años y me sigue generando una mezcla de emociones: nostalgia, tristeza, alegría y ansiedad por saber que sigue y como termina. Sirius Black aunque es un personaje enigmático y oscuro es de los mejores personajes de la serie.
April 10, 2015
Este es uno de mis favoritos de la saga!!
September 23, 2019
Es el libro que más he disfrutado, sin duda alguna me encantó!
September 26, 2019
Con cada libro la historia se vuelve más y más emocionante. Imposible para de leer.
February 7, 2021
Te amo Sirius black
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January 1, 2024
Siempre es bueno comenzar el año con un clásico cómo harry
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