Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling has also commented on the issue:

During an audience interview at the Edinburgh Book Festival on 15 April 2004, series author J. K. Rowling had this to say about the fictional Killing Curse's etymology: " Does anyone know where avada kedavra came from?

SF conventions routinely have programming on fantasy topics, and fantasy authors such as J. K. Rowling have won the highest honor within the science fiction field, the Hugo Award.

Although Rowling has said that Gilderoy Lockhart is her only character that she " deliberately based on a real person ", Snape was reportedly based, at least in part, on John Nettleship, who taught Rowling chemistry and employed her mother as an assistant at Wyedean School near Chepstow.

J. K. Rowling / Warner Brothers has sent cease-and-desist letters referencing " sexually explicit " writings on the web, ( Example cease and desist letters at Chilling Effects ), though Rowling approves the writing of fan fiction in general, posting links to fan fiction on her website and openly acknowledging slash fiction while maintaining that pairings such as those between Harry / Draco and Harry / Snape are non-canonical.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the fifth in the Harry Potter series written by J. K. Rowling, and was published on 21 June 2003 by Bloomsbury in the United Kingdom, Scholastic in the United States, and Raincoast in Canada.

Rowling has stated on her website that there are no true pure-blood families left, but that those who call themselves such simply strike Muggles, Squibs, and Half-bloods from their family records.

In 2003 the BBC carried out a UK survey entitled The Big Read in order to find the " nation's best-loved novel " of all time, with works by English novelists Tolkien, Austen, Pullman, Adams and Rowling making up the top five on the list.

The road is featured briefly in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows when Harry and his friends were escaping from Death Eaters, by J. K. Rowling ; The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins ; Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf ; Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw and its musical adaptation, My Fair Lady ; Saturday and Atonement by Ian McEwan ; several Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ; the Saki story Reginald on Christmas Presents ; several stories by John Collier ; A Room with a View by E. M. Forster ; The London Eye Mystery, The Late Mr Elvesham by Herbert G. Wells by Siobhan Dowd ; The Wish House by Celia Rees ; a The Matrix-based story, Goliath by Neil Gaiman ; features often in novels by Mark Billingham and The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon.

* J. K. Rowling gets the idea for Harry Potter while on a train ride from Manchester to London.

* J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, lived on the southern edge of the Forest at Tutshill from 1974 to 1983.

Although Rowling has never hidden the fact that she is the author of Fantastic Beasts, " Newt Scamander " can nevertheless be considered a pseudonym of hers, as he is technically the author listed on the book's cover.

" A reviewer for Kidsreads. com said, " This crisply-paced fantasy will leave you hungry for the four additional Harry books that J. K. Rowling is working on.

Kristin Lemmerman of CNN pointed out that it is not great literature: ' Her prose has more in common with your typical beach-blanket fare and the beginning contained too much recap to introduce characters to new readers, athought Rowling quickly gets back on track, introducing readers to a host of well-drawn new characters.

While the series is legally published in Russia, it is not available in translation due to litigation on behalf of JK Rowling and Time Warner.

In 2003 the BBC carried out a UK survey entitled The Big Read in order to find the " nation's best-loved novel " of all time, with works by English novelists Tolkien, Austen, Pullman, Adams and Rowling making up the top five on the list.

Hitchens argues that the tactic " has a deplorable effect on both the plot and the dialogue " in that it creates " The need for Rowling to play catch-up with her many convolutions ".

He succeeded Bill Rowling as leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party and as Leader of the Opposition on 3 February 1983.

The magazine noted Pikachu as the " public face of a phenomenon that has spread from Nintendo's fastest selling video game to a trading-card empire ", citing the franchise's profits for the year as the reason for the ranking ; behind singer Ricky Martin but ahead of author J. K. Rowling.

* 2011: Michael Balcon Award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema ( Harry Potter series, joined by J. K. Rowling, David Heyman, David Barron, David Yates and Mike Newell, shared with Harry Potter cast and crew )

* JK Rowling Interview with Daniel Radcliffe cites George Eliot's real name as inspiration for character Lily Evans's name.

After the completion of the series, Rowling began to speak openly about Snape and admitted that she was particularly pleased with the way Snape's story played out throughout the course of the series, contrasting his character arc with that of Albus Dumbledore.

What is known is that with reported worldwide sales of 750m, Harold Robbins sold more books than J. K. Rowling, earned and spent $ 50m during his lifetime, and was as much a part of the sexual and social revolution as the pill, Playboy and pot.

A well-known example of this comes in the Harry Potter series of J. K. Rowling, where three such supplemental books have been produced, with the profits going to charity.

Rowling himself was compared unfavourably to Muldoon, and did not cope well with Muldoon's aggressive style.

The New York Times writer John Leonard praised the novel, saying " The Order of the Phoenix starts slow, gathers speed and then skateboards, with somersaults, to its furious conclusion .... As Harry gets older, Rowling gets better.

In Half-Blood Prince, Rowling depicts the Gaunts as a family who are obsessed with their ancestry and driven to inbreeding to preserve its integrity.

" That was fine with Rowling.

In a 2001 interview with publisher Scholastic, Rowling stated that she chose the subject of magical creatures because it was a fun topic for which she had already developed a lot of information in earlier books.

* Interview with J. K. Rowling about her book Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Rowling has stated that the reason she had Molly kill Bellatrix was to show Molly's great powers as a witch and to provide a contrast between Molly's consumption with " maternal love " and Bellatrix's with " obsessive love ".

In particular, Rowling had trouble with the ninth chapter, " The Dark Mark ", which she rewrote 13 times.

In 2001 Rowling penned two companion books to the Harry Potter series, Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, for British charity and off-shoot of Live Aid, Comic Relief with all of her royalties going to the charity.

* Interview with J. K. Rowling about her book Quidditch Through the Ages

To date, however, Rowling has neither confirmed that she used Campbell's work as an inspiration, nor denied that she ever read The Hero with a Thousand Faces.

At the time of the movie's release, however, author J. K. Rowling said that it was her personal favorite from the series so far.

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* Dumbledore's Army, a fictional group in the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling

J K Rowling, author of the Harry Potter novels, is a resident of Edinburgh.

Famous authors of the city include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Muriel Spark, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, James Hogg, author of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series of crime thrillers, J. K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, who began her first book in an Edinburgh coffee shop, Adam Smith, economist, born in Kirkcaldy, and author of The Wealth of Nations, Sir Walter Scott, the author of famous titles such as Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and Heart of Midlothian, Robert Louis Stevenson, creator of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.

* Both the books Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them and Quidditch Through the Ages, which were written by Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling as a way to raise funds for Comic Relief, are written as reference books for the wizarding world.

The viaduct has become known to millions in recent years as the " Harry Potter Bridge " after it featured in the films of the books by J. K. Rowling.

* Hedwig ( Harry Potter ), Harry Potter's faithful messenger and pet snowy owl in the Harry Potter novels by J. K. Rowling

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* In the Harry Potter series, J. K Rowling named a leading female character Minerva McGonagall in light of the Goddess.

According to J. K. Rowling, Merlin was born sometime during the medieval era.

For example, in the Harry Potter novels, J. K. Rowling reshapes a standard English proverb into “ It ’ s no good crying over spilt potion ” and Dumbledore

* A poltergeist named Peeves appears in the Harry Potter series, who is described by the series author J. K. Rowling as not a ghost but an " indestructible spirit of chaos.

J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, is a fan of Gilliam's work.

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For example, J. K. Rowling maintains the painful transition between forms while Charles de Lint, Terry Pratchett, Fritz Leiber, and myriad others reach back to the non-painful medieval literary sources.

* The Wizengamot, a fictional organisation in the Harry Potter series of books written by J. K. Rowling, derives its name from the Witenagemot.

A more recent example is J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series.

* Severus Snape, character in the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling

Severus Snape is a fictional character in the Harry Potter book series written by J. K. Rowling.

Muggle, a term from the Harry Potter book series by J. K. Rowling, refers to a person who lacks any sort of magical ability and was not born into the magical world.

* Cuthbert Binns, from the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling