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Jun 6, 2012 · Was Harry Potter an innately powerful/skillful Wizard in any way, based on canon? It seems that whenever Harry Potter performed some unusually potent bit of magic (potent as far as require raw power AND/OR skill), most of the time we find that it wasn’t innately Harry’s skill, but a combination of:
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- The series taught adults that, when it comes to literature, age ain’t nothing but a number. Whether you started reading the series at an age-appropriate 12 only to wait in line at 22 for the joy of the final installment or, like my dad, you decided to indulge your overzealous daughter by reading the copy she hid in your carry-on bag on a work trip and fell in love, the Harry Potter series took adults reading books written for kids and teenagers from being something mildly embarrassing to being an everyday occurrence.
- It taught publishers that, as long as the books are GOOD, kids will read them, no matter how long they are, or how many you write. Before “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,’’ a 700-page children’s book was unheard of.
- That led to an EXPLOSION of popularity for children’s and young adult literature, especially series. Did you know that the Harry Potter series is the reason that The New York Times Bestseller List has a separate list for children’s books?
- It made book culture into pop culture. Find someone who was working at one of Harvard Square’s bookstores in July 2007 and ask them about the Harry Potter Party thrown in the square to celebrate the release of the final book in the series.
Jun 26, 2017 · Here are just two of the ways Harry Potter changed publishing, and how those changes affected the rest of pop culture: 1) The books made it possible to publish long works aimed at children....
Joanne Rowling, as she was known then, dreamed up the story of the bespectacled boy wizard on a train trip between London and Manchester. She finished the manuscript in 1995, writing much of it...
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- 'Nobody wanted to touch fantasy stories' To put in plainly, Harry Potter was not widely expected to be a hit, with JK Rowling receiving "loads" of rejection letters before finding success.
- A formula that can't be put into words. And part of the magic is just that — magic. Booklist contributing editor Ilene Cooper says the phenomenon can't be totally explained — that sometimes in publishing this kind of thing "just happens; it's not something you can put into a formula".
- 'Seven books can only do so much' Some research, however, has questioned the impact Harry Potter has had on shaping a wider appreciation for reading. For instance, research by the National Endowment for the Arts in the US has found no increase in children's reading levels in correlation to Harry Potter — which Ms Shemroske says is unsurprising.
- Children's books are big business. These practical effects on the world of publishing reflect one of the most significant legacies the Harry Potter books have left — money.
It was the first in a planned series of novels about a powerful young wizard drawn into an epic battle of good versus evil, and the article posited that Harry “could assume the same near-legendary status as Roald Dahl’s Charlie, of chocolate factory fame.”
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Oct 12, 2018 · In Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, the half-giant gameskeeper of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Rubeus Hagrid, appears on a stormy night and tells the 11-year-old titular orphan: “Harry—yer a wizard.”
