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This is the kind of prose that reasonably intelligent nine-year-olds consider pretty hot stuff, if they're producing it themselves; for a highly-educated woman like Rowling to knock out the same kind of material is, shall we say, somewhat disappointing. Their names are often onomatopoeic [ clarification needed]: Malfoy is difficult, Filch unpleasant and Lupin a werewolf. The series has also gathered adult fans, leading to the release of two editions of each Harry Potter book, identical in text but with one edition's cover artwork aimed at children and the other aimed at adults. P, Plaintiffs/Counterclaim Defendants, -against- Nancy Stouffer: United States District Court for the Southern District of New York".

Various religious fundamentalists have claimed that the books promote witchcraft and religions such as Wicca and are therefore unsuitable for children, [154] [155] [156] while a number of critics have criticised the books for promoting various political agendas.I’m also the founder and president of the international children’s charity Lumos, which fights for every child’s right to a family by transforming care systems around the world, so that they are raised in a safe, loving home, supported by family to help them thrive. In May 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Rowling began serializing a new children’s book, The Ickabog, for free online; it was published in November.

We have to know that she wasn’t lazily sipping mochas for two decades while jotting down a continuous stream of words like a literary Fountain of Youth. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was published by Bloomsbury, the publisher of all Harry Potter books in the United Kingdom, on 26 June 1997.The series has been viewed as a Christian moral fable in the psychomachia tradition, in which stand-ins for good and evil fight for supremacy over a person's soul. You can lead a fool to a book but you cannot make them think": Author has frank words for the religious right". Some critics view Harry Potter 's rise, along with the concurrent success of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials, as part of a broader shift in reading tastes: a rejection of literary fiction in favour of plot and adventure.