Harry Potter Series

BY J.K. Rowling

Biography• J K Rowling was born on July 31st, 1965 in Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire,

England. Her given name at birth was Joanne Kathleen. Rowling met and married a journalist in Portugal (he was Portuguese), and her daughter Jessica was born in 1993. Shortly after the birth of her daughter, the marriage ended in divorce. To support her daughter and herself, Ms. Rowling began working as a French teacher. After several months Arthur A Levine Books/Scholastic

Press bought the American rights to the first “Harry Potter”, and Ms. Rowling received enough money to give up teaching and write full time. Ms. Rowling has described this moment as the happiest of her life

Overview• Harry Potter has a miserable life living with his aunt and uncle and his favored cousin

Dudley. When he is close to his 11th birthday he starts receiving mail from some unknown school. He comes to find out he is a wizard. An evil wizard Voldemort, who killed his parents and tried to kill him, but fails making him the first to ever survive the killing curse. His first year of school he conquers Voldemort who tried to steal the sorcerers stone to make himself immortal. His second year he opens the chamber of secrets which was planned by Voldemort to kill him. He kills the baskilisk and again triumphs. During his third year at school he finds out he has a godfather who he thought was trying to kill him but actually to save him. The fourth year he is entered into the triwizard tournament and wins the cup with takes him to a graveyard to be killed. Again he luckily gets away. His 5th year he joins the order of the phoenix in who revolts against Voldemort. His Godfather dies in a fight. The 6th year he finds out that Voldemort has survived by splitting his soul. The 7th year he doen’t go back to school but on a search to destroy the horcruxes (soul parts). He sacrifices himself in order to kill him but survived by unknown magic and once and for all Voldemort is dead forever.

Challenged• One school to ban Harry Potter was St. Mary's Island Church of England

school in Chatham, Kent. Head teacher Carol Rockwood explained that "The Bible is very clear and consistent in its teachings that wizards, devils and demons exist and are very real, powerful and dangerous and God's people are told to have nothing to do with them." She added that "I believe it is confusing to children when something wicked is being made to look fun.“

• Some people find the Harry Potter books to be inappropriate reading because of the way Harry and his friends behave. Some note that Harry "lies, breaks rules, and disobeys authority figures, including the professors at Hogwarts," and that he ends up being rewarded and praised for his actions. They feel that heroes should be entirely good people who do as they're told and respect others

• Some people think that the Harry Potter books—especially the later ones—are too dark and scary for children to handle. The series begins as Harry is orphaned, and he soon learns his parents were violently killed. There are intense battles. Good people die, suddenly and horribly. This, some say, is the stuff of nightmares, not something to be handed to kids as entertainment

My thoughts

• I don’t really think this book is a bad example but I do think people have a right to their opinions not to like it. I think it is a book never intended for harm, but a mere story of a adventure and fantasy.

• ---No other challenged books---

Bibliography• http://www.essortment.com/all/jkrowlingbiogr_reak.htm• http://www.infoplease.com/spot/banned-harry.html