Last Updated on March 6, 2024
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The Harry Potter book and movie series continues to enjoy a solid fan base for more than two decades since the first novel was released in 1997.
LeakyCon, a Harry Potter fan convention held in Massachusetts, is still organized every year. In October 2019, Warner Bros and Pottermore launched its membership program, Wizarding World Gold, where subscribers can avail of all the seven books in the main series plus new videos, discounted merchandise, and more.
The adventures of author Joanne “J.K.” Rowling’s wizards and Muggles (humans or non-wizards) captured the imagination and hearts of both children and adults that the seven books were translated into 80 languages, including Latin, Greek, Arabic, Korean, Afrikaans, and Vietnamese. Over 450 million copies of the book have been sold to date.
In 2016, or five years after the last Potter film was screened, Rowling delighted Potterheads anew when she came up with the “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.” This was the first of the new “Fantastic Beast” series, which was inspired by a “guidebook” she wrote in 2001 featuring the magical creatures in the Potter universe.
The magic lives on with four new books released online in the summer of 2019, featuring an in-depth look at the lessons taught at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry: from the care of magical creatures to potions, charms, and divinations.
12 Rejections
Rowling was rejected by 12 publishers before the synopsis for “The Philosopher’s Stone” reached the hands of the Bloomsbury, which chose to publish the first book. A copy of that much-rejected document became part of the “Harry Potter: A History of Magic” exhibit set up by The British Library in 2017 to mark the series’ 20th anniversary.
Rowling’s big break is attributed to the daughter of the Bloomsbury chairman Nigel Newton, Alice—then aged eight—who asked for more of the Potter manuscript after her father gave her the first chapter to read.
After Scholastic bid for the American publishing rights for the book in 1997, Rowling went on to become the first author to make $1 billion.
The “Harry Potter Effect”
The book series set off the so-called “Harry Potter Effect” that got children reading and hungry for longer material, or more than the former standard of 60,000 words. The last four Harry Potter books were each more than 700 pages long.
Deakin University senior lecturer in literature Michelle Smith compares the Potter series to Thomas Hughes Tom Brown’s Schooldays (1857), as both are set in British-style boarding schools. However, Smith said that Rowling made the Hogwarts school a fresh concept by making it an institution of magical arts.
Mystery + Fantasy + Pleasure
Books and reading became a shared activity due to the wide appeal of the adventures faced by Harry and his friends at the School of Hogwarts.
The large following of the Harry Potter books was due to the universal themes that both children and adults love: strong friendships, mystery, magic, good defeating evil, and love overcoming hate.
The popularity of the internet around the same time that the series was published became a form of support for readers of Harry Potter books. The internet enabled them to connect online and paved the way for so-called geeks to shed their inhibitions, unite, and have fun.
The phenomenon then gave rise to fandom culture, which was behind various gatherings from cosplays to sports games and musical performances.
Life Lessons
Reviews about the impact of the Potter books say that 65% of millennials have read at least one of the volumes in the series, making that generation very conscious about injustice, both in the magical and real worlds.
The books dealt with the issues of supremacy felt by pure-blood wizards and the injustice against minorities in the magical world: house-elves, werewolves, giants, and non-pure-blood wizards.
This awareness about inequality reportedly motivated millennials to be more socially involved in causes related to the issue. The lessons from the characters and storylines also drove fans to become tolerant of diversity, to adopt a positive attitude, and to be conscious in making decisions. The readers found inner strength by emulating their favorite heroes in the series.
The moving and emotional dialogues of the characters are truly sources of the enduring magic of the series as many of them are applicable in daily life. Here are some of them:
Harry Potter Quotes
“You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“I’m going to keep going until I succeed — or die. Don’t think I don’t know how this might end. I’ve known it for years.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“And from now on, I don’t care if my tea leaves spell die, Ron, die — I’m just chucking them in the bin where they belong.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people’s business.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
“The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“I’m dying!’ Malfoy yelled, as the class panicked. ‘I’m dying, look at me! It’s killed me!” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
“All those poor elves I haven’t set free yet, having to stay over during Christmas because there aren’t enough hats!” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“’Constant vigilance!’ You’d think I walk around with my eyes shut, banging off the walls….” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
“Mad Eye Moody on the Avada Kedavra curse: ‘Not nice,’ he said calmly. ‘Not pleasant. And there’s no counter curse. There’s no blocking it. Only one known person has ever survived it, and he’s sitting right in front of me.’” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
“The world isn’t split into good people and Death Eaters.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
“Just because it’s taken you three years to notice, Ron, doesn’t mean no one else has spotted I’m a girl!” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
“Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.” – J.K. Rowling
“Longbottom, if brains were gold, you’d be poorer than Weasley, and that’s saying something.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
“And he knew that at that moment, they understood each other perfectly, and when he told her what he was going to do now, she would not say ‘be careful’ or ‘don’t do it’, but she would accept his decision because she would not have expected anything less of him.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“Potter has been crossing lines ever since he first arrived at this school…” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
“No story lives unless someone wants to listen. The stories we love best do live in us forever.” – J.K. Rowling
“Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“Yeah ‘ear ‘ear,” said George, with half a glance at Fred, the corner of whose mouth twitched.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“Finally, the truth. Lying with his face pressed into the dusty carpet of the office where he had once thought he was learning the secrets of victory, Harry understood at last that he was not supposed to survive.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“Harry witnessed Professor McGonagall walking right past Peeves who was determinedly loosening a crystal chandelier and could have sworn he heard her tell the poltergeist out of the corner of her mouth, ‘It unscrews the other way.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“We can’t choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“The ministry has fallen. Scrimgeour is dead. They are coming.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“Turn to page three hundred and ninety-four.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
“I see a light in the kitchen. Let us not deprive Molly any longer of the chance to deplore how thin you are.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“Slowly, very slowly, he sat up, and as he did so he felt more alive, and more aware of his own living body than ever before. Why had he never appreciated what a miracle he was, brain and nerve and bounding heart? It would all be gone…or at least, he would be gone from it. His breath came slow and deep, and his mouth and throat were completely dry, but so were his eyes.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
“You will also find that help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
“’I’ve never stunned anyone except in our D.A. lessons,’ said Luna, sounding mildly interested. ‘That was noisier than I thought it would be.’” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“The Aurors are part of the Rotfang Conspiracy, I thought everyone knew that. They’re working to bring down the Ministry of Magic from within using a mixture of dark magic and gum disease.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and faces.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“Listeners, that brings us to the end of another Potterwatch. We don’t know when it will be possible to broadcast again, but you can be sure we shall be back. Keep twiddling those dials: the next password will be ‘Mad-Eye.’ Keep each other safe. Keep faith. Good night.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“’Like the fact that the person Sirius cared for the most about in the world was you,’ said Dumbledore quietly.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“They’re evacuating the younger kids and everyone’s meeting in the Great Hall to get organized. We’re fighting.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“Rita looked as though she would have liked nothing better than to seize the paper umbrella sticking out of Hermione’s drink and thrust it up her nose.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“Oh, of course,’ said Ron, clapping a hand to his forehead. ‘I forgot we’ll be hunting down Voldemort in a mobile library.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“Being in Harry Potter is like being in the Mafia. Once you are in, you are never really out.” – Daniel Radcliffe
“I only want power so I can get books.” – Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
“’The toilet’s never had anything as horrible as your head down it— it might be sick.’ Then he ran, before Dudley could work out what he’d said.” – J.K. Rowling , Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
“Ron’s indignation on his behalf was worth about a hundred points to him.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
“I WILL NOT TOLERATE MENTION OF YOUR ABNORMALITY UNDER THIS ROOF!” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
“I can make that old bloke down there pick his nose again… and again… and again…” – J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
“Famous Harry Potter,’ said Malfoy. ‘Can’t even go to a bookshop without making the front page.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
“I am not worried, Harry,’ said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. ‘I am with you.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“’Oh, these people’s minds work in strange ways, Petunia, they’re not like you and me,’ said Uncle Vernon, trying to knock in a nail with the piece of fruitcake Aunt Petunia had just brought him.” – J.K. Rowling , Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
“It’s leviOsa, not levioSA!” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
“Ron gave a tiny jerk of the head that Harry understood to mean, Well – if you must.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“But from that moment on, Hermione Granger became their friend. Because there are some things you can’t go through in life and become friends, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.” – J.K. Rowling
“Because, sometimes you’ve got to think about more than your own safety! Sometimes you’ve got to think about the greater good! This is war!” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“Honestly, woman, you call yourself our mother?” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
“There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other.” – J.K. Rowling
“Hermione was screaming again: the sound went through Harry like physical pain.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“You may, perhaps, wondered why I never chose you as a prefect? I must confess…that I rather thought…you had enough responsibility to be going on with.” – JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“In dreams, we enter a world that’s entirely our own.” – J.K. Rowling
“Oh you is a bad elf, Dobby!” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
“He was about to go home, about to return to the place where he had had a family….The life he had lost had hardly ever seemed so real to him as at this moment, when he knew he was about to see the place where it had been taken from him.” – J.K. Rowling
“But Death was cunning.” ? J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard
“’Yeah,’ said Ron, ‘and lucky Harry doesn’t lose his head in a crisis — there’s no wood, honestly.’” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
“The ones that love us never really leave us.” – J. K. Rowling
“Parents shouldn’t leave their kids unless — unless they’ve got to.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“At that moment, Harry fully understood for the first time why people said Dumbledore was the only wizard Voldemort had ever feared.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
“Killing rips the soul apart.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“And I must draft an advertisement for the Daily Prophet, too,’ he added thoughtfully. ‘We’ll be needing a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher…. Dear me, we do seem to run through them, don’t we?” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
“Friday was an important day for Harry and Ron. They finally managed to find their way down to the Great Hall without getting lost once.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
“Dudley thought for a moment. It looked like hard work.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
“’Hogwarts is threatened!’ shouted Professor McGonagall. ‘Man the boundaries, protect us, do your duty to our school!’” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“Come, daddy, Harry doesn’t want to talk to us right now. He’s just too polite to say it.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“’Scared?’ Malfoy muttered, so that Lockhart couldn’t hear him. ‘You wish.’ said Harry out of the corner of his mouth.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
“That’s what they should teach us here. How girls’ brains work… It would be more useful than divination, anyway…” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“We teachers are rather good at magic, you know.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“You’ll soon find out some wizarding families are much better than others, Potter. You don’t want to go making friends with the wrong sort.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
“And if Dobby does it wrong, Dobby will throw himself off the topmost tower, Harry Potter!” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“You shall not touch Harry Potter. You shall go now.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
“Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition. Your qualifications are not your life.” – J.K. Rowling
“Aha! What villains are these, that trespass upon my private lands! Come to scorn at my fall, perchance? Draw, you knaves, you dogs!” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
“No story lives unless someone wants to listen. So thank you, all of you.” – J.K. Rowling
“And anyway, it’s not as though I’ll never see Mum again, is it?” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“Facing this stuff, in real life is not like school, in school, if you make a mistake you can just try again tomorrow, but out there…when you’re a second away from being murdered or watching a friend die right before your eyes…you don’t know what that’s like.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“It was as though they had been plunged into a fabulous dream. This, thought Harry, was surely the only way to travel — past swirls and turrets of snowy cloud, in a car full of hot, bright sunlight, with a fat pack of toffees in the glove compartment…” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
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