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Harry Potter continues to be a global phenomenon. The series of books by author J.K. Rowling has been translated into 65 languages with more than 325 million copies sold in over 200 territories around the world. The films, produced by Warner Bros. Pictures, have grossed more than $3.5 billion at the box office worldwide. Each of the four Harry Potter films produced to date has the distinction of making it into the all time top 20 grossing films worldwide.
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The fourth Harry Potter book was not your average children’s book. It was seven hundred and thirty four pages in the Scholastic publication. Even so it had been the top seller on Amazon.com for several months before the much-awaited release date of July 8th, 2000. The length was one of the many things that made book four a rule breaker. These factors included the lack of advanced copies to reviewers, limited plot information to anyone, the unwritten rule of secrecy, and the debate concerning price, size, and publishing design.
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According to Andrew Hard a Fox News reporter, Harry Potter has now turned to the dark side. He writes “Some parents are concerned that the kids Lining up outside bookstores will be faced with a story as black as night itself.”
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In the fifth book, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the Ministry of Magic has been waging a smear campaign against Harry and Dumbledore, disputing their claims that Voldemort has returned. A new character is introduced when the Ministry of Magic appoints Dolores Umbridge as the latest Hogwarts' Defence Against the Dark Arts instructor (and Ministry spy). Because the paranoid Ministry suspects that Dumbledore is building a wizard army to overthrow them, Umbridge refuses to teach students real defensive magic. She gradually gains more power, eventually seizing control of the school. As a result, Harry's increasingly angry and erratic behaviour nearly estranges him from Ron and Hermione. Rowling says she put Harry through extreme emotional stress to show his emotional vulnerability and humanity—a contrast to his nemesis, Voldemort.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Scholastic announced today that since the release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince nine weeks ago, Harry Potter fans have purchased more than 11 million copies of the U.S. edition of J.K. Rowling's sixth book in the phenomenally popular series. Following its release at midnight on July 16th, the book sold a record- breaking 6.9 million copies in the first 24 hours. Harry Potter and the Half- Blood Prince has been widely praised by reviewers and has been #1 on both adults' and children's bestseller lists nationwide.
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The sixth book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, was released on July 16, 2005. It too broke all sales records, selling nine million copies in its first 24 hours of release.[53] While writing, she told a fan online, "Book six has been planned for years, but before I started writing seriously I spend two months re-visiting the plan and making absolutely sure I knew what I was doing."[54] She noted on her website that the opening chapter of book six, which features a conversation between the Minister of Magic and the British Prime Minister, had been intended as the first chapter first for Philosopher's Stone, then Chamber of Secrets then Prisoner of Azkaban.[55] In 2006, Half-Blood Prince received the Book of the Year prize at the British Book Awards.[56]
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