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J.K. Rowling Remembers The Moment Harry Potter Became A Phenomenon: “Everything Went Crazy”
The author took seven years from having her idea to seeing her first Harry Potter book published.
Record-breaking author J.K. Rowling has remembered the moment she first realised that, in her schoolboy wizard Harry Potter, she had created a phenomenon. Rowling’s series of seven books telling the trials and triumphs of Harry and his friends at Hogwarts School for Wizards has now sold more than 500 million copies across the world and been turned into a film franchise worth more than $10billion, but back in 1997, when her first book Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone(called ‘Sorcerer’s Stone’ in the US) was published, it all felt very different. Rowling told The Sunday Times newspaper that it all felt like a bit of a blur, until she won the Smarties Book Prize in 1997.
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